I came upon GDW's flyer "Understanding Traveller:the New Era",
a 4-page thing only one of which is of interest, which list some of
the upcoming support material.
The TECHNICAL ARCHITECTURE book will not only have design formulae
for vehicles, spacecraft (yes, the flyer says this will be in the TA
book.I hope I can believe this), weapons, sensors,"and more."
It will also examine technology not normally found in the Traveller universe.
This we already knew. However, the TA book will also have a section with
"a layman'sexplanation of the _real_ science behind the numbers in Traveller,
addressing issues such as acceleration, gravity, power generation,
laser light dispersion, and much more." Included in the flyer are two
illustrations which I presume are from this section, one a cutaway view
of a vacc suit helmet, hilighting the systems inside, and one of what
I guess is a snub pistol. The illustrations look good, but I tremble at
hearing the "real science" part. We shall see....
STARSHIP COMBAT will be released as a boardgame, basically an expansion
of the basic rules and "useful for single ship encounters as well as
squadron actions".
REAVERS is the first region sourcebook, "is rich in adventure material
and background, covering the Old Expanses where the Star Vikings are based,
their Hiver patrons, and The Wilds they have sworn to tame." Apparently,
the Star Vikings have also apropriated the name "reavers" as well, which
fits my view of them just fine. But, of course, REAL reavers are native
to the Deep.
CHALLENGE will be devoting more space to Traveller.
MINIATURES from RAFM, 25mm scale, as well as detailed starship miniatures.
NOVELS: the tie-in novel strikes Traveller. Or at least it will. Apparently
this is in too early a stage to say much about it.
John H Bogan
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Does anyone have a program that supports the olfactory portion of K'Kree
name generation? :-)