Barony for sale on e-bay

[tjoneslo]

Someone is selling Traveller baronies on e-bay for $5.00 each.
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Note: I'm not the person selling these, I just though it was kind of cool.

 

[Border Reiver]

It's Marc W. Miller's e-bay ID so it must be fairly official. Nice way to raise funds.

 

[inexorabletash]

I just noticed this too. Trippy.

I earned one the old fashioned way (Marc liked my map site), so I'm of mixed feelings... but at the end of the day it's a business so why not?

I hope he's tracking these somewhere?

 

[mike wightman]

I note a couple of points of interest:

Typically within the Third Imperium, a Barony, when awarded, includes a fief on a world, and that world is selected with a purpose. Baronies are awarded for Agricultural or Rich worlds.

 

[Andrew Boulton]

I'm shocked - shocked, I say! - that the cash-for-peerages scandal has spread from the British government to the Imperial Moot!

Especially since it's nearly 10 years since I suggested it...

I'm gonna have to open an eBay account now...

 

[Andrew Boulton]

$340. The phrase "licence to print money" comes to mind.

Some people have more money than sense. Me included...

 

[robject]

$340??

 

[mike wightman]

I dread to think what baronies on Regina, Mora, Rhylanor etc. will go for...

 

[Andrew Boulton]

Originally posted by robject:
$340??

Roughly what Marc just made from 5 sheets of card (one went for $130!)

 

[Arthur Denger]

Capital, my good Baron, simply Capital! (Pun intended.)

 

[ravells]

Wow. If only there were as many players as planets in the mapped traveller universe. I wonder if he got the idea from that website.. name a star .Very nice marketing, but what does ownership of the planet entail? If you bought the planet and then could write it up as part of a living traveller campaign..or maybe Marc has already thought of that? Me, I'd like to buy a corporation!

Ravs

 

[jfetters]

Originally posted by Joshua Bell:
I just noticed this too. Trippy.

I earned one the old fashioned way (Marc liked my map site), so I'm of mixed feelings... but at the end of the day it's a business so why not?

I hope he's tracking these somewhere?

Likewise. I saw this several days ago and kind of scratched my head and just figured, "what the heck."

If you think about it, in the end it works like the way the Imperial peerage is supposed to work. Sometimes you get something for work, other times you "donate" for it.

 

[Arthur Denger]

Originally posted by ravs:
Wow. If only there were as many players as planets in the mapped traveller universe. I wonder if he got the idea from that website.. name a star .Very nice marketing, but what does ownership of the planet entail? If you bought the planet and then could write it up as part of a living traveller campaign..or maybe Marc has already thought of that? Me, I'd like to buy a corporation!

A planet? Unlikely. You may have the baronial station confused with that of the marquis. "...The baron, the lowest level accorded membership in the peerage... may receive a fief of land on a single world, generally not more than 100 square kilometers." — Imperial Encyclopedia (tm) As for myself, it is a situation in which to spend my retirement, and it was high time I set up for gentleman in earnest, anyway.

 

[Redleg58]

Originally posted by Arthur Denger:

Capital, my good Baron, simply Capital! (Pun intended.)

Excellently put!

 

[Arthur Denger]

Thank you! Anyone who quotes the Carmpan Third Historian is a friend of mine. Damned berserkers. Every now and again we run across some of their hideous wreckage out in the Frontier Worlds.

Fortunately, none of that seems to have remained operational, at least as far as we know. It mainly poses a hazard to astrogation. Belters often strip off some of the more portable bits from the wrecked hulks to be sold to the tourist trade at local starport gift shops. I suppose the practice provides a second income for many of them.

 

[ravells]

Originally posted by Arthur Denger:
A planet? Unlikely. You may have the baronial station confused with that of the marquis. "...The baron, the lowest level accorded membership in the peerage... may receive a fief of land on a single world, generally not more than 100 square kilometers." — Imperial Encyclopedia (tm) As for myself, it is a situation in which to spend my retirement, and it was high time I set up for gentleman in earnest, anyway.

Aw boo! Hardly worth having then. Maybe the marquis auction is to come! What next? Arch-dukes?

 

[Darkhstarr]

It's a cool idea. Three years ago I would have bid.