First off, they've already got a great name for their explorers
built into the background. Back when I played TRAVELLER on a
fairly regular basis, the most popular character type was defi-
nitely the scout. The Imperial Interstellar Scout Service must
have a whole body of legend surrounding it. So why in Yaskoy-
dray's name wouldn't the next generation of explorers (and
players) want to cash in on the mystique of the famous explor-
ers of the Thousand Year Empire? They're not Star Vikings,
they're Scouts.
As for stutterwarp, why can't they have that be a recent inno-
vation in ftl drive technology, developed by the Imperium
just before the Short Nap -- or at least, entering into the
public domain about then. The only problem being, they'd need
to make a set of realistic star maps with the old j-drive
paths drawn onto them.
- -- Tim Soholt ([email removed]), The Man With No .sig