Hey Matt. Is this a 5e Traveller Licensee?

[Nathan Brazil]

So
EXODUS TRAVELER
ASLAN DYNASY
From Wizards of the Coast

Being the Chicken Little of Traveller that I am:
Is this (said WotC book or Computer Game) on your radar @MongooseMatt ?
It seems awfully familiar to a game you publish. Came across this on a Discord and link below

Seth Skorkowsky (@sskorkowsky.bsky.social)

So Wizards of the Coast is making a new sci-fi TTRPG where you play characters called Travelers and there's an Aslan Dynasty? That's, uh... that's a bold choice. I look forward to their inevitable interviews and announcements where they say how no one has ever done anything vaguely similar before

bsky.app

 

[MongooseMatt]

No. No, it is not a licensee...

 

[mike wightman]

It's the TTRPG to accompany a multimedia online rpg, there is already a novel authored by Peter F hamilton and there has been a considerable online presence for this for a while now.

 

[Nathan Brazil]

Thank you both for the info.
If you are not worried @MongooseMatt, I will not be worried. I remain as always, your loyal, panicky Chicken Little. Have a good weekend.

 

[mike wightman]

It has quite an interesting new take - there is no FTL.

Travelers move between worlds at near c so so that little time passes by their perspective, but in the real world decade pass.

To get an idea watch the Amazon series Secret Level episode 11

 

[casquilho]

To get an idea watch the Amazon series Secret Level episode 11

That was a great depiction in my opinion. It was well done. A lot of the stories in Secret Level were good.

 

[whartung]

Travelers move between worlds at near c so so that little time passes by their perspective, but in the real world decade pass.

Guess you better make sure that whoever's going to pay, that they're local!

I mean, its an interesting idea, sorta, but I don't expect a lot of traveling to happen. By the time you get to anywhere, everyone else who is not with you, is dead. At a minimum that AAA travel guide you picked up is 20 years out of date when you get there, and that includes that cool Hot Dog place closing 5 years before you arrived. Boy, did that menu look good in the brochure.

 

[King Midas]

Guess you better make sure that whoever's going to pay, that they're local!

I mean, its an interesting idea, sorta, but I don't expect a lot of traveling to happen. By the time you get to anywhere, everyone else who is not with you, is dead. At a minimum that AAA travel guide you picked up is 20 years out of date when you get there, and that includes that cool Hot Dog place closing 5 years before you arrived. Boy, did that menu look good in the brochure.

OTOH, I've always thought this is a great idea for the idle rich. Put some money in stable bonds, leave it alone for what is - to the bank - twenty years, go on a jet set party cruise for a couple of weeks - your time - and show up ready to collect your haul.

 

[Grav_Moped]

OTOH, I've always thought this is a great idea for the idle rich. Put some money in stable bonds, leave it alone for what is - to the bank - twenty years, go on a jet set party cruise for a couple of weeks - your time - and show up ready to collect your haul.

Assumes the bank (and perhaps the currency in which the money is denominated) is still there in two decades. Or that's another story to be told...

 

[Nathan Brazil]

Does anyone remember me bringing up the sci-fi novel Lockstep (2014) by Karl Schroeder? Where the entire Human empire is active for X number of months or a year or whatever, then spaceships are launched (no FTL) to accelerate to near light speeds before the entire empire goes into hibernation or stasis for decades. The ships travel effectively in isolation. Safeguards are put into all equipment on ships and planets (reactors, computers, food processors, etc.) to self destruct if you to attempt cheat by living between the active periods of the Empire. Just asking, why this is a good interstellar society and the one in Lockstep was a bad one.... Just asking.

 

[whartung]

OTOH, I've always thought this is a great idea for the idle rich.

The interesting thing is, is that becomes a triggering event.

When you have enough money to put away "enough money" for a) the cost of the voyage, and b) to be able to profit from growth of the money and the cost of voyage.

Let's try something simple. Money grows at (net, post taxes) 5%, inflation at 3%. And let's say a trip cost 10,000 in "current" dollars. Each trip takes 1 month of personal time, but 20 years of "real" time. How much would you need to invest to keep this going in perpetuity?

Turns out the number is 21,319.

So, when someone reaches 31,319, that's enough to kick it off and be set for life.

In as little at 3 years (assuming the trip takes 1 month), you're 720 years "in the future", and your portfolio is set for explosive growth.

If you invest 21,318? You're a dead duck in 2 years. Out of money.

Fascinating tipping point.

Now, can anything last that long? That's a complete different issue.

Today, there's this concept of "FIRE" - Financial Independence Retire Early. Folks scrimping and saving through their early years so they can retire before 40. I'm sure they have "crossover" days. "Today, I have Enough" and they retire.

That's what this would be like.

Literally, "1 more dollar, and I'm on a ship to Cestes 5 for the next 3 years".

 

[Condottiere]

There was one science fiction novel, where the rebels against the corporation had time dilation interstellar travel, and after a series of battles where they tried to cripple it, eventually returned to Earth, and found that their trust fund management now owned the corporation.

 

[Condottiere]

Uplifted bear civilization.

 

[Nathan Brazil]

Uplifted bear civilization.

Literally, a "bear" market?

 

[Condottiere]

Taking a paws.

 

[Ekofisk]

There was one science fiction novel, where the rebels against the corporation had time dilation interstellar travel, and after a series of battles where they tried to cripple it, eventually returned to Earth, and found that their trust fund management now owned the corporation.

There was another one (actually three) by Alfred Coppel: The Goldenwing Cycle; Glory, Glory's War, and Glory's People. Interesting concept from what I remember.

 

[Condottiere]

Distopic space opera - A novel of a future owned by a malign corporate run government that kills the first alien visitors to steal the technology and use it to create & control their own hegemony of planets. Rissa Kerguelen is a ward of the state but unwilling to submit she escapes to join the underground resistance fighters. She trains then rises to command in the rebellion. The rebellion is the remnant of a once powerful corporation from before UET took total control.