Originally posted by Gallowglass:
Glad someone else remembered this as well. IIRC wasn't Adventure 4 written by Bob McWilliams, then editor of the Starbase Traveller column in White Dwarf? I seem to recall that it was intended as the first of a line of products, but nothing else materialised... The GW printed UK editins of quite a lot of CT material (I have a few LBB's in different sizes thanks to some being US and some UK) certainly as late as the Starter Edition boxed set and possibly the Traveller Book.
Hi Nick,
As far as I know, Leviathan was written by the then White Dwarf team (who had the corner desk in the upstairs office at Dalling Road), but Bob may have been the driving force.
Leviathan was the only one they wrote which was published by GDW and included in the sequence of numbered adventures.
Games Workshop also produced a couple of sector books and the IISS Ship Files supplement (something similar to Traders & Gunboats, but with different ships). All of these were printed in the UK and I don't know whether they were ever available in the US.
I believe that the sectors were officially assigned to GW, or possibly to specific GW staffers at the time, but I never picked up copies of them and my memories of them a pretty hazy.
The IISS Ship Files, on the other hand, was a great book and I still use my copy on a fairly regular basis. The choice of ships was a bit strange, but interesting. Working from memory (I'm at work and the book isn't), they included a Hnneshant Phylum Vargr Trader; a Zhodani frigate, which seems more like a corvette to me, but still; a G-Carrier Assault Ship; a communications satellite; a trader which carried an underslung, detachable cargo pod, rather than an internal cargo bay; and some others that I'll remember as soon as I've posted this.
There was also Trevor Graver's Traveller newsletter, called Dark Star, some of which were sold through the Dalling Road shop. They were an A4 sheet folded in half to make a four-page A5 newsletter. It was filled with Trevor's own Traveller stuff, including a couple of patrons (the 77th Patron, which debuted in Dark Star was later reprinted in JTAS, if I remember correctly). It only ran for seven or eight issues, but it was good.
The licence to print Traveller materials in the UK lapsed in around 1984, but I was no longer involved with GW by then so I only know what was made public about the reasons for that decision. However, it wouldn't have lasted much longer anyway, because Jackson & Livingstone sold up a year or so later and GW began repositioning itself as the miniatures company that it is now.
Cheers
David
