General MegaCorps in Traveller

[whulorigan]

With all this said, I was curious where I can find the list of canon sources. Specifically, does it include the latest JTAS issues?
In particular, back to my interest in Shushaka in Corridor, 1109. The Traveller Wiki was updated with information that depended on volume 11 of JTAS (new issue not old). So, is the JTAS information, published by Mongoose, now canon?

Historically, Canon under CT specifically excluded JTAS unless it was mentioned in another canonical source. Now that MgT owns Traveller, I do not know if their policy is that MgT JTAS is Canon or not.

‘Cause if it is, the Traveller World page for Shushaka is not consistent with the article in JTAS Vol 11. The article states Shushaka is a moon of one of the gas giants while the Traveller World page describes Shushaka as orbiting the primary star in the binary system.

The wiki data for Shushaka is taken from Traveller Map, which is (or has been) the canonical source for Charted Space world data, and was vetted via the T5SS process by Marc Miller et al. There is no indication in the world data there that the world is a satellite.

 

[Grav_Moped]

Historically, Canon under CT specifically excluded JTAS unless it was mentioned in another canonical source. Now that MgT owns Traveller, I do not know if their policy is that MgT JTAS is Canon or not.



The wiki data for Shushaka is taken from Traveller Map, which is (or has been) the canonical source for Charted Space world data, and was vetted via the T5SS process by Marc Miller et al. There is no indication in the world data there that the world is a satellite.

As far as I can tell, the Travellermap system generation is random, based on a RNG seed drawn from the world's hex number. That is, it's random, but each world always uses it's own same random numbers each time. Exising canon UWPs are slotted into the generation process, but other details may not be.

The resulting system description should be (and often has been) manually altered and saved to fit pre-existng canon system descriptions, where available. But this is not always the case,

 

[GypsyComet]

The Traveller Worlds site is entirely procedural, so any authorial attention given to a system or subsector is fairly likely to differ from it, unless that author was factoring in the Traveller Worlds interpretation when they wrote their description.

The baseline data in Traveller Map varies from straight up random data to curated through, in a few cases, quite a few revisions, re-thinks, cringe reductions, campaign-sensitive alterations, etc. Where a given sector sits on this spectrum is based on published history and/or the efforts of fans who may or may not see their work published eventually. As one example, I did a little work on Ziafrplians 30 years ago that eventually became published MCanon in the Mongoose v1 Zhodani book. Another example is much of Trojan Reach Sector, started under GDW (In Leviathan) then added to in a fanzine late CT and into MT. That material became the basis for Pirates of Drinax 10 years ago and the MT version from the 90s.

The canonicity of Mongoose material remains fluid as of right now, and is often case-by-case. I consider Ziafrplians and the Mongoose v1 Zhodani book pretty strongly Canon, with a few oddities perhaps, due to who wrote it (Don McKinney) and who else was looking over their shoulder (Marc Miller) during writing. By comparison, the early Mongoose Vargr book makes a few spurious remarks that makes me more cautious about accepting the book as unremarked Canon.

Use what you like, ignore or replace what you don't. Being accidentally over-written has been an occupational hazard of Traveller Refs since CT Supplement 3, and that's never going to change.