Travellers & Citizens - Reference Materials - Help!

[merlin]

Hi,

I'm looking for information regarding Traveller products/Web Sites/or other sources that contain information on the following subjects for research/reference material as part of the TA (Travellers & Citizens) that I'm writing at the moment.

Considering the vast back catalogue of Traveller related material, trawling through such a large amount of supplements, rulebooks and adventures looks like it's going to be a massive time hogger and I figure that there are many of you out there who have come across such information before and I would be grateful if you could inform me as to which are the most suitable.

Anything that relates to the following would be of use:

Life in the 3rd Imperium, and the influence of the Imperium and Imperial policy, monetary, legal, or otherwise on it's citizens.

The structure of the Imperial beauracracy.

Cultural identity within the Imperium, how it effects the daily life of Imperial citizens (Solomani etc, etc...)

Media, organisations and their influence within the 3rd Imp.

Major employers within the 3rd Imp (Megacorp Companies)

Daily routine of ships crews and standard crew rosters for craft operating within the 3rd Imp.

Once again, thanks.

Grahame

 

[tjoneslo]

Many of the things you are asking about have contradictory information, depending upon the era and whom you believe.

In any case: Good starting points would be:

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• Megatraveller Refree's manual and Imperial Encylopeda. Out of print and but not hard to get. Contains good summaries of most of the matierial you are asking about.</font>
• Reprints of the Journal of the Traveller Aid Society. Articles in the journals cover money/credit, Police forces, an article on life in a archology, Discussion of alien races, and many others. Not all canon, but very good references.</font>
• GURPS Traveller 2nd edition. Similar to the MT material, it contains a good summary of the Traveller universe with brief overviews of many items on your list.</font>
• GURPS Traveller: Rim of Fire. Contains a excellent overview of the Solomani Rim, including how life for the ordinary citizen in the Confederation works. Also contains a listing of the Megacorporations.</font>
• GURPS Traveller Starships or DPG's Starship Operators manual. The latter is out of print and very hard to find, but both give an overview of life on a starship.</font>
• BITS 101 Corporations. A listing of many corporations with in the TU. May give an idea of how the different corporations approach their employees.</font>
• Downport.com is the best Traveller portal site on the web. They support many excellent Traveller sites, and have links to many others. Concentrate on Freelance Traveller (various articles), Argushiigi Admegulasha Bilanidin (A CT era Library of information), and BARD Pages (A TNE era library of information).</font>

 

[ACK!!]

Freelance travel also has a culture section but I feel the JTAS articles had a lot of info as well. Time to break out the reprints man.

I like the comments on Psi-shield helmets becoming a fashion statement for folks in the Spinward Marches.

Freelance Traveller Culture link

 

[FrancoisUldry]

I think you might also find some info in the traveller adventure, it will give some ideas on what a specific subsector of the Spinward MArches is like kind of.

Some planets are pretty detailed some others are rather dull or even non-descript

Hope this helps,
Francois

 

[Flynn]

In regards to media coverage, the first few Traveller Digests included a Journalist prior career for MT, as well as details of the equipment reporters would carry around, etc. Some of that is reprinted in the Early Adventures.

Hope this helps,
Flynn

 

[notagoodusername]

Originally posted by Merlin:
Anything that relates to the following would be of use:

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Grahame,

I've got all the listed stuff except the Traveller Adventure. Gimme a ring and we can work out getting stuff you need to you.

[OT bit] Haven't heard from you for ages G, how you been? Granted I wasn't there at new year (damned work), but not through lack of trying. You going to be in this weekend?

Shane

 

[merlin]

Originally posted by Shane Mclean:
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Anything that relates to the following would be of use:

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Grahame,

I've got all the listed stuff except the Traveller Adventure. Gimme a ring and we can work out getting stuff you need to you.

[OT] You going to be in this weekend?

Shane </font>[/QUOTE][OT] Cheers Shane that would be excellent. Yep I'll give you a call tonight.

Thanks to all those who replied,

Grahame

 

[merlin]

In reference to the above request for information, are there any descriptions of Sector/Subsector wide sporting events/organisations (eg. blue ribbon racing; team sports?) that are considered canon?

While not immediately associated with the idea of Traveller/Citizen characters - persons involved in such events IMAHO would make interesting NPC's

On that subject, what sort of citizens (sports persons, entertainers, ships crew, bureaucrats, nobles etc...) would people like to see stated in a TA and what areas of life for the Imperial citizen would you like to detailed further?

To avoid any possible accusations of plagiarism (no offence ment - but have to be careful) please don't post any actual samples but peoples views on the matter would be most welcome.

Thanks,

Grahame

 

[tjoneslo]

The most frequently mentioned Traveller "sport" seems to be "GravBall", a version of Soccer (or football), in a null-gravity area. Depending upon how much you like the original movie Rollerball, Gravball seems either harmless or very violent.

Spaceship racing (using outdated reaction drives or solar sails) has been mentions in passing. Starship racing (plotting jumps across a subsector or on a tour) has also been postulated in the past.

My favorite sport would be exo-atmosphereic skydiving. Using a highly modified battledress suit, with wings on the arms and no grav support unit, people jump from 50-100 miles above the surface and try to land without killing themselves. Points are scored for style.

The TNE aliens book also has a verison of calvinball played by the Ilthukur.

 

[Shadowdancer]

I recall reading somewhere about a starship tour race in the Spinward Marches. The ships had to check in at the subsector capitals in eight different subsectors, IIRC. This might have been in GURPS Behind the Claw.

 

[mike wightman]

It was in BTC, in the sidebars.