Hi folks, I've just found and joined you, but I've been playing Traveller for over 20 years! (I'm a newbie to online communication). I'm basically a CT fan,...
I put it in my file sharing folder if you use Yahoo IM. How do I view shared files? You can view/download a contact's shared files: Click the Contact menu in...
In a message dated 12/1/04 7:35:01 AM !!!First Boot!!!, ... megatraveller expands on this a bit, but the non-gdw megatraveller stuff that Mr. Fugate published...
In a message dated 12/1/04 7:35:01 AM !!!First Boot!!!, ... got any spare LBB sized boxes for sale? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
In a message dated 12/1/04 7:35:01 AM !!!First Boot!!!, ... same here brother old game fart....:-) . I've run into gamers at conventions who weren't even BORN...
Sorry. Most of my stuff is already consolidated, and I don't know what happened to the original boxes (I got them all second-hand from my dad). Plus, all I've...
Hey, who manufacturers in the Imperium, and more importantly, who makes what? I infer from Library Data that Instellarms LIC, Delgado Trading LIC, and...
Hi Conrad, not sure if this helps, Conrad Deitrick <randomgoblin3@...> wrote: Hey, who manufacturers in the Imperium, and more importantly, who makes...
Thanks for the reply guys :) That freelancetraveller site looks great, I can see myself visiting that a couple of times when I can spare the time to crank up...
i think you're right about it being later i think they modified the chronology in megatraveller and tne by having dulinor not shoot strephon and they just went...
Is it just me, or is the Imperium the only Major race to be utterly boxed in by other Major races? What's the deal with that, other than the game being...
It actually says in one of the books something like as the galaxy was explored, two facts became clear - life is everywhere, but the only races to have...
Maybe the Ancients had something to do with it. IIRC at a time about 80,000 to 30,000 years pre-Imperium all of the major races began to develope civilization...
... Loren mentioned this in an editorial for the subscription-only online JTAS some months back. They developed the Third Imperium in a haphazard manner,...
In a message dated 12/7/04 8:48:02 AM !!!First Boot!!!, ... Where in canon was this stated? I thought the whole point of being a major race was inventing jump...
... a major ... Geonee would be a ... opposite, that they ... The reference was in Aslan and Solomani: the Rimward Races by DGP. I think there was a reference...
Actually, given the size of the imperium, and the distances due to non straightpaths (due to star placement defineing jump routs usable) and the speed of the...
... It's at this point that such a society needs to become nomadic, and abandon its used-up homeworlds to move the whole civilization lock-stock-and-barrel on...
This thread interests me and there are a couple of points I'd like to raise, besides agreeing with the nomad idea in principle - isn't that what space...
... Well, nomadism is one solution. Migrating to ajacent lands and starting over is another. Alas, growth being what it is, and there are other civiliztions...
... nope. It is done for pure science reasons, and for resource location (prospecting) and then resource devlopment, and retrival (mining, preprocessing, and...
ok, lets make some suppositions. Societies arise from intelligent species that get organized and do not blow themselves to E=mc^2 in the atomic age, or into...
... like to ... that ... Maybe I'm defining nomadism wrong, but I still think the above *reasons* are secondary. We explore because we're curious - because ...
... Quruosity causes us to send robots to the moon. Pride sent 3 men. PROFIT will sent and army. Imagine the discovery of precious spices worth their weight in...
... model ... nearby? AS ... 500 ... still ... 21st ... over ... minerals in ... KIA ... big names. ... to ... walk ... It could be fun indeed, but I'll pass...
Cool, now, ignore Traveller altogether for just a moment, and apply all this to the issue of Fermi's Paradox. Fermi, the great physicist, at aparty one...
... expand ... only ... devlope ... sublight ... Given one billion stars in the galaxy that translates to 1000 civilizations spread over 10 billion years...
it also means that the local cluster of stars is our oyster. Care to go on a clam dig with me, my brother? I think it was clark who said 'why get excited...
G'day, New list member here. Been playing Traveller since the late 70's. It was my very first RPG, way back when I was young. I was wondering if anyone is...
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