Who are we?

[Nearside]

It's great to see so many people here from the UK-I always suspected that Traveller had a bigger than average following in the Isles.

 

[Nellkyn]

Name: Neil McGurk
Age: 32
Country: UK
Military Service: None, I don’t count 17 years of re-enactment
Favourite Version of Traveller: Classic and GURPS
Favourite Supplement: GT Ground Forces
Favourite Adventure: Twilight Peak
Favourite Sector: Spinward Marches
Favourite Race: Human
Favourite Empire: 3I
Favourite World: Regina

 

[autochthonic]

Name: pk
Age: mid 30's
Country: UK
Favorite version of Traveller: CT.
Military Service: tech support for NATO summer schools
Favorite Supplement: Striker.
Favorite Sector:Solomani Rim.
Favorite Race: Droyne.
Favorite Empire: The Imperium.

It's always 1107 imtu.

 

[Zolomion Shoul]

Name: Thierry
Country: Bacchus' heaven: France !
Age: dirtyfor (french accent)
Military service: Signals, but as I ate the pigeons they let me out !
Favorite version: CT, I do not even catch why they did MT, TNE...
Favorite etc: I like quite everything of CT, and bits of GURPS high tech...
Favorite race: mixed stock of Vilani and Solomani.
Favorite Empire: mine, when it exists; otherwise the Rule of Man.
Player / referee: more often player than gamemaster. but my stories are better...

 

[Thomas Mura]

Name: Thomas Mura
UPP: 98BBB5
Homeworld: Terra Incognita
Race: 10k mostly
Age: Just finishing term 5
Country: Canada
Favorite version of Traveller: Classic
Favorite Milieu: The 3rd Imperium c. 1100
Military Service: Naval Reserve 1984
Favorite Suppliment: Secret of the Ancients/Beltstrike
Favorite Sector: Spinward Marches/District 268
Favorite Race: Humaniti/Vargr/Droyne
Favorite Empire: None, I'll die a belter, dammit!

 

[Rodina]

Name: Andrew

Age: 32

UPP: A559C8; Law-3, History-3, Malt Whiskey Consumption-2, Writing-1, Small Aircraft Pilot-1, Steward-1.

Country: East Bay, Northern California

Occupation: Attorney, 2 terms

Favorite Version of Traveller: Classic

Military Service: Nothing, save saying thank you to everyone who wore the uniform (that goes for you good folks in Her Majesty's armed forces as well)

Favorite Supplement: Alien Module #2, K'Kree

Favorite Sector: The Spinward Marches

Favorite Race: Virushi

Favorite Empire: The Rule of Man

Favorite World: Collace/District 268 (B628943-D)

 

[BMonnery]

Name: Bryn Monnery
Age: Just had my 5th 21st birthday
Sex: No thank you, I'm British
Nationality: Welsh by race, English by culture, confused by God....
Military Service: TA only, Isle of Wight Rifles and Liverpool Irish (more confusion!), highest rank achieved: officer cadet (but only for a while), which is 2 ranks below pond scum.
Favourite version of Traveller: Classic, or 2300 if that counts.
Educational achievement: BSc Chemisty, MSc Chemisty, 1 year of a PhD before I dropped it. Soon to start a PGCE.
Salary expectation: Will work for food!
UPP: 869BA6 Chemistry-4 Biology-1 Gun Cbt-1 Tactics-3 Leadership-1 Artillery-1 Jack of all Trades-2 Skiving-6
His shameless homepage plug: www.geocities.com/Area51/9292/2300/

Bryn
Ubique! Quis Separabit?

 

[Rodina]

Originally posted by BMonnery:
UPP: 869BA6 Chemistry-4 Biology-1 Gun Cbt-1 Tactics-3 Leadership-1 Artillery-1 Jack of all Trades-2 Skiving-6

Skiving? Is that like Buskering? The English use of the English language frightens and confuses me.

 

[millican]

OK, I'll roger up - sorta.

Name: Far Scout 275
CID: 711
Age: Old enough to be your older brother! Well, for some of you at least.
Military Service: 12 years Scouts
Location: Terra / Sol (What?! Planetary location not good enough for you?)
Traveller Version: Classic
Favorite Milieu: 3rd Imperium
Favorite Race: Ael Yael and Dolphins
Favorite Sector: Spinward Marches (cut my teeth on that far flung realm - hope to retire there someday!)
Favorite Planet: The one I am going to survey next!
Favorite Supplement: Scouts! (Surprise)
Role: Mostly GM.

 

[Shadowdancer]

Name: Randy

Age: 41

Nationality: Texan

Occupation: Journalist

Favorite version of Traveller: Classic (right now, though I do plan to buy T20 and give it a try)

Favorite Supplement: Mercenaries and Merchant Prince

Favorite Sector: Spinward Marches

Favorite Adventure: Twilight's Peak

Favorite Race: Aslan

Favorite World: Aster

Role: GM

 

[Gallowglass]

Originally posted by Rodina:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by BMonnery:
UPP: 869BA6 Chemistry-4 Biology-1 Gun Cbt-1 Tactics-3 Leadership-1 Artillery-1 Jack of all Trades-2 Skiving-6

Skiving? Is that like Buskering? The English use of the English language frightens and confuses me.</font>[/QUOTE]Ha! It's OUR language, we can abuse it any way we want . All you colonials must just suffer in silence whilst we lecture you about correct usage, but WE can abuse it any way we want...

And some of favourite quotes:

"English was a language invented by Norman invaders to pick up Anglo-Saxon barmaids. It retains much of this character."
- Either from H. Beam Piper or Paul Drye's English professor
Peter Newman
"English doesn't "pick up" loan words, it consciously stalks them."
Andrew Moffatt-Vallance
"We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
- James D. Nicoll
Anthony Colosetti

All culled from http://www.tip.net.au/~davidjw/tavspecs/taglines.htm

 

[cgriffen]

Name: Chris
Birthdate: 287-1967
UPP: 97B9A7
Skills: Computer-2, Martial Arts-3, BS'ing-4, Leader-2, History-2, Writing-3, Minivan Pilot-1, Research-2, Language (Spanish)-2
Country: U.S. of A. (Bay Area)
Favorite version of Traveller: TNE
Favorite Supplement: Regency Sourcebook, Book 4: Mercenary, Supplement 10: Solomani Rim, Alien Module 4: Zhodani, DGP's Solomani and Aslan book
Favorite Sector: Deneb
Favorite Race: Vargr
Favorite World: Vincennes (Vincennes Subsector, Deneb Sector)
Favorite Empire: Solomani Confederation

 

[N.I.C.E. Labs]

Name: John
Age: 36
Country: USA, Missouri subsector
Favorite version of Traveller: Classic Traveller.
Military Service: None, but my father did just about everything in WWII
Favorite Suppliment: Library Data
Favorite Sector: Spinward Marches
Favorite Race: Humaniti (with Zhodani and Virushi runners up)
Favorite Empire: The Imperium, Fifth Frontier War

 

[BMonnery]

Originally posted by Rodina:
Skiving? Is that like Buskering? The English use of the English language frightens and confuses me.[/QB]

Buskering? Me no understand. (Quick web search), okay let me add Musical instrument-2 (Guitar and Drums, and the amp goes to 11).

Skive: Avoid work, shirk, Homer Simpson, Wally from Dilbert

Try http://english2american.com/dictionary/wholelot.html

Bryn

 

[Rodina]

Buskering is begging, right? As in the signs in the Underground which say "Buskering strictly prohibited."

 

[Ron]

Name: Ronaldo
Age: 35, not getting any younger
Country: Brazil
Favorite version: MT w/ HG ships and T4's precareer educational options.
Military Service: Nope
Favorite Suppliment: The Alien Modules
Favorite Sector: The Beyond
Favorite Race: Droyne and Darrians
Favorite Empire: The Fourth (hopefully)

 

[Kpeterson]

Name: K.R. Peterson
Age: 31
Country: Seattle, WA
Favorite version of Traveller: Megatraveller, Gurps Traveller (portions of both)
Military Service: None
Favorite Suppliment: (Gurps:Traveller) First In
Favorite Race: No particular favorite

 

[James Bolivar DiGriz]

Name: Let’s try…Jim. Yeah, Jim’s good.

Age: 35

Skills: Leader-15; Caffeine Consumption-23, Technosavvy-5, Technical(computers)-10, Technical(Digital & Analog Electronics)-15, Sense Motive-15, Use Alien Devices-20.

Country: North West, USA

Occupation: Manager, Technology Development

Favorite Version of Traveller: Looking forward to T20

Military Service: Grunt

Favorite Sector: The Spinward Marches

 

[johndanstrain]

Name: John
AGE: 51 (1951)
Country: Mississippi, USA
Favorite version of Traveller: CT Military Service: N/A
Government Service: 0 years
Favorite Suppliment: TCS/HG/Mayday
Favorite Sector: The SM / Sol Rim
Favorite Race: Humans
Favorite Empire: The Imperium
GM PBeM campaign CT -MT - Official background

 

[Bishop]

Name: Thomas
Age: 40
Country: USA
Mil Serv: 21 yrs of Mil Brat (believe me I've done my time)
Fav Version: I have all of them (bought CT Summer '79) looking forward to T20.
Fav Sector: Spinward Marches