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Who are we?

I guess it's time to introduce myself, rather than just anonymously dragging people's pet technologies thru the mud...

Name: Jeff (or Blind Geoff)
Age: 41 (on average, I act 16 and feel like I'm 66 :( )
Location: Anaheim, California.
Country: The Bear Flag Republic
Favorite version of Traveller: MegaTraveller (I like my games, and my peanut butter, to be crunchy)
Military Service: Let me see if I understand this - you tell me what to do, and I have to do it? After you spend six weeks treating me like the lowest form of pond scum? Thanks, but I think the civilian life is for me... ;) Seriously, I'm WAY too irresponsible!!
Favorite Supplements: Ethanol, Excel (try MT ship design without both sometime!)
Favorite Sector: The Beyond.
Favorite Race: Vargr - There's nothing wrong with them that a K'Kree invasion fleet wouldn't fix! ;)
Favorite Empires: Norton's San Francisco and Die Weltbund.
Favorite World: Well, this one's not too bad
Favorite Quote: "Beer is proof that God loves us, and wants us to be happy." - Benjamin Franklin.
Profession: Piracy www.portroyalprivateers.org , free-lance physics and cosmology, single malt consumption, homebrewing, beer drinking, airplane glue manufacturing
 
Name: Hecateus, Hecatæus, Hekataois
Age: 30
Country: West Kingdom, Principality of the Mists, Wolfscairn Shire
Favorite version of Traveller: probably GURPS...thinking about T20
Military Service: tried to do ARMY, but I just can get Situps down..er up rather. ;)
Favorite Suppliment: Gurps Starports
Favorite Sector: The next one.
Favorite Race: Hunams! ...okey the VIlani are nifty imo.
Favorite Empire: MINE!
 
<turns off black globe momentarily>

Name: Tomb Raider (Kaladorn to some)
Age: mid-thirties
Traveller since: 1981
Versions: Play MT. Own all.
Interests: Wargaming, Sci-Fi, RPGs, Tech, Computers,
Literature, Classics/Ancients, Writing, Sailing, Aikido, Development of Anti-Grav
Locale: Ottawa, Ontario
Favorite race: Solomani Human (no I am not a fascist or communist - but I was born on Terra)
Least Favorite Race: Hivers. (Dangerous Lot)
Favorite Sector: Glimmerdrift Reaches (Judges Guild) or Solomani Rim
Homeworld: Terra (and now its back where it belongs)
Favorite Career: Marine or Agent
Faction: Solomani.... err... if I have to choose, we'll say Norris or Brzrk
Favorite Suppliment: Single Malt... err... World Builders Handbook

<reactivates Black Globe generator>
 
Originally posted by Empress Nicholle:
Name: Courtney
Age: never ask a woman her age
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Does that one work at the airport or border or with Imperial Customs at the Star Port?


Started with CT in 1982. Uh-oh, I'm showing my age...
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Didn't we all and aren't we all?


Seriously, always nice to meet a female gamer, because they are sadly under-represented in the hobby. And they usually have a different approach to problem solving.

Example:

Male Muh-rine: I blow the door down with my FGMP-15 and race through the shattered hole, trusting to my battle dress to take the heat. I see anyone, they get liquified.

Female Navy Officer: Had you waited approximately 12 more seconds, I would have deactivated their security countermeasures, reprogrammed the grav plates, pinned them to the floor gently, and ensured our recovery of the goods with neither casualties nor colateral damage. Nice work, Muh-rine.

So, glad to meet you!
 
Name:
Ray
Age:
Older than my teeth, younger than my hair. :D
Country:
Illinois
Favorite Traveller Version:
CT, but I'm learning T20.
Military service:
4 years Navy (2 on subs) then
16 more years in the Coast Guard.
Retired Enlisted and Proud!
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Favorite Supplement:
Supplement 12 - Forms and Charts
Favorite Sector:
Spinward Marches
Favorite Race:
Darrians
Favorite Empire:
the Third Imperium (pre Rebellion)
 
Name: Strephon Alkhalikoi
Age: 33
Country: Near Boston's Dumping Ground (near Providence, RI)
Favorite Traveller Version: LBB Traveller (I refuse to call it Classic, because that implies age, and Traveller is ageless)
Military Service: n/a
Favorite Supplement: High Guard
Favorite Sector: Solomani Rim
Favorite Race: Solomani
Favorite Empire: United Federation of Planets (though I do like the 3d Imperium, I'm a dyed in the wool Star Trek fan, and have a LBB in the works for Star Trek using Traveller rules.)
 
Name: Tad Hastings
Age: 28
Country: Everett, WA, US
Favorite version of Traveller: T4 (tweaked)
Military Service: Navy (6 years)
Favorite Suppliment: Central Supply Catolg
Favorite Sector: Spinward Marches
Favorite Race: Darrians
Favorite Empire: Darrian Confederation
 
Originally posted by kaladorn:

Seriously, always nice to meet a female gamer, because they are sadly under-represented in the hobby. And they usually have a different approach to problem solving.

Example:

Male Muh-rine: I blow the door down with my FGMP-15 and race through the shattered hole, trusting to my battle dress to take the heat. I see anyone, they get liquified.

Female Navy Officer: Had you waited approximately 12 more seconds, I would have deactivated their security countermeasures, reprogrammed the grav plates, pinned them to the floor gently, and ensured our recovery of the goods with neither casualties nor colateral damage. Nice work, Muh-rine.

Both approaches have their advantages!
;)
-Courtney P.
 
That's an amusing tale, Empress! Haven't you said it before, though?

And did you write that article about those starship logs (I beg your Imperial Pardon, but I can't remember their name; they're on the main page here)?
 
Name: Bill Coffin
Age: 32
Country: US of A
Favorite version of Traveller: CT!
Military Service: Haven't had the honor.
Favorite Suppliment: Citizens of the Imperium. Nothing beats mustering out with a Pirate Corsair.
Favorite Sector: None, really.
Favorite Race: Solomani
Favorite Empire: The Imperium
 
Originally posted by Mythmere:
Jame's always down on himself. He had, has can't have this relationship with "any her" (as it were) and it didn't end well. So he's got no reason to be up.
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This, with some MAJOR editing (go look it up) is the real story. Just thought I'd yell it out so all know how life prefers to treat me. And nothing can come of anyone reading it here (pointed remark).
 
Name: Mark Rotteveel
Age: 35 (though before the morning coffee...about 800)
Country: Australia (Ozzie Ozzie Ozzie! oi oi oi!)
Favourite Version: Classic, and TNE
Military Service: Navy (7 years), communications and EOD.
Favourite Supp: Errr.... so many... Solomani or Vargr module?
Favourite Sector: Solomani Rim or Spinward Marches.
Favourite Race: to play - Human. To ref - Vargr.
Favourite Empire: Errr.... none really..
Favourite predicament: Backs to the wall - facing 20 angry marines in battledress - and armed only with a road map, a beach towel, and 3 pieces of second hand chewing gum :D
 
Name: John Appel
Age: 39 (going on 19 according to my wife)
Country: Maryland, USA
Favorite Traveller Version: MT without the Rebellion
Military Service: Cavalry Scout, US Army, with a little stint in an SF group in the Reserves
Favorite Supplement: SCOUTS!
Favorite Sector: OTU, the Spinward Marches
Favorite Race: the K'Kree, because it's just so counter to expectations for herbivorous herd animals to be so nasty!
Favorite Empire: IMTU, the Decatur Unity (pocket empire of about 100 systems); OTU, the 3I

Favorite Traveller moment - hand-launching fighters (which we were smuggling) out of a freighter hold to fight off a naval vessel
 
Name: Gareth Wheatley
Age: 22
Country: Australia (Brisbane, noted by Billy Connelly as the city where, "If the world needed an Enema, you'd stick it in Brisbane.")
Favorite Traveller Version: OK, I'm going to remove a whole pile of these fields, since I have only just started playing. Version in use: Conglomerate of TC & TNE that Rotters and I worked out based on what we had available and some common sense.
Military Service: None.
Favourite situation: Trying to hide behind a pile of rocks from a TL7ish AFV followed by 30 odd infantry with a trigger happy Auto RAM.GL armed Vargyr ex Marine beside you.
 
G'day,

Funnily enough I spent the first 11 years of my life in northern england yet still use this term in normal speech more than 99% of "true Aussies" I know.
 
Good to see ya finally got around to posting yourself, Raynulf.. (I've been pushing him to for ages, folks
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Conglomerate of TC & TNE that Rotters and I worked out based on what we had available and some common sense.
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Yup, that's the one.... although I don't think the 'common sense' part is applicable... to me, anyway
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