The Zhodani Base

Patron: Doctor, Surgeon
Required Skills: none
Required Equipment: Starship

Players’ Information:
The group is contacted by Dr. Annalise Nassline, a young medical doctor affiliated with a large medical center on Pylkan (Foreven 2834). She and her assistant seek passage to several of the less populated worlds in the Urnian Subsector.  They need middle passage for themselves and are traveling with an eight dton sealed standard shipping container.  She explains that the container is a mobile operating theater, and diagnostic lab.  The pair are on a mission of mercy, treating sophants on worlds with inadequate medical infrastructure.

 Image from Department of Defense. Public Domain

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Patron: Claims investigator/ISS Agent
Required Skills: Investigative skills and a total lack of psionic abilities.
Required equipment: None.

Players’ Information:
The characters are approached at any starport by a middle aged man in good quality casual attire. He has grey hair and an easy confident gait.

The man introduces himself as Gaillard Igsnakiir and says he has a job to offer. He says he is an agent of a legal claims company called “Spin for a Win”. He explains it is a small company and he is very stretched and needs some immediate help to tail and gather information about a man suspected of defrauding the company. He shows the Group a picture of a strange scrawny man wearing a Psi Shield helmet with a “lived-in” but intelligent face. The psi-shield has an unusual protrusion on the right hand side. He says the man is travelling under the name Eneri Fortune, but suspects that the man has used more than one identity.

He goes on to explain that the man took out a claim against the Imperial Secret Service for false imprisonment. The case went to imperial tribunal and Mr Fortune was awarded a large sum of money. During the tribunal Mr Fortune called a man named Liskaguur as key witness.

Gaillard Igsnakiir thinks he has been compromised and that Mr Fortune knows he is following him. The job is for the players to continue the investigation.

Image from wikimedia. This file is licensed under GNU Free Documentation License

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The 76 Patrons Contest is over. The entries are posted above.

Registered users (on the 1:st of July) and participants in the competition may vote (using a points system) on the entries they like the most.

You can start sending in your votes now. Give the best patron 2 points, and give the second best 1 point. The participants may not give their own entries any points.

Today is talk like a Pirate day. How does a traveller space pirate talk?

Some say that pirates are not feasible in traveller. They say that the impies and/or other powers will swiftly crush any piracy.

I do not agree!

If we look at the planet earth, in the year 2009, we can see that piracy does happen in the most unexpected places. It doesn’t have to happen along the coast of a country in anarchy. It could even happen in the Baltic.

What happened (and why) to the ship Arctic Sea could absolutely be transformed into a traveller adventure.

Remember that a pirate could also be a privateer. Then the pirate would be a lot easier. A pdf-file about privateering in traveller can be downloaded here.

Pirates doesn’t only have to operate corsair ships built using book-2. They could also use old warships or government sponsored privateers build using book-5 rules. That would give the pirates a better fighting chance.

Alex Schroeder has made a very nice subsector mapping tool.

The interface is simple, and it produces nice looking svg maps.

IE might have problems showing the map.

Firefox will work fine.

Marc Miller has just posted the original draft of the Spinward Marches map on the FFE website.

Now we have to examine it to see how well it matches the original version.

What differences have You found, and what is your theories about that?

Using the post-tool that can be found at Traveller Map it is now possible to make your own pdf-maps.

To help the participants of the 76 Patrons Contest I have created a pdf-map of Foreven Sector.

To help the participants of the 76 Patrons Contest with ideas, I have decided to list a number of writeups for planets in the Foreven Sector here. Most of these writeups are for the TNE era, but personally I hope your entries are written for the classic era. It is usually possible to extract some information about the planet in the classic era from these TNE writeups.

For more information about the Foreven Sector (and classic data) go here.

Urnian Subsector

• Novoterre
• Benoncra
• Ake
• Kutadis
• Cinboshabo
• Mainap
• Lune
• Capshobem
• Urnian, Urnian CT (Weapon Industries)
• Dinpholasy
• Nanno
• Pylkah, Pylkah CT (Balkanized)
• Taupi
• Ronu CT

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I have looked at four more subsectors (one quadrant) of Galaxy One. In the Xexedi cluster, the planet of Xexedi is important since it is a TL-14 industrial planet. There are also many amber zones in this subsector.

@SUB-SECTOR: Xexedi Cluster   SECTOR: Oolite1
#--------1---------2---------3---------4---------5---------6---
#PlanetName   Loc. UPP Code   B   Notes         Z  PBG Al LRX *
#----------   ---- ---------  - --------------- -  --- -- --- -
Lerelace      0912 A466843-C  N Ri                 525 Hc
Laenin        0914 E6537BD-4    Po              R  200 Hc
Xexedi        0915 A476977-E  N Hi In Cp        A  513 Gf
Tibionis      0917 B655743-8    Ag              A  311 Fr
Terea         0918 B7677A7-6    Ag Ri           A  333 Hc
Uscela        0919 A666777-8    Ag Ri              322 Bl
Xeoner        1013 C4577AA-6    Ag                 311 Sl
Esbeus        1015 C677778-6    Ag              A  222 Ff
Maregeis      1019 C777954-7    Hi In              212 Hc
Usle          1116 B677976-9    Hi In              411 Hc
Enonla        1317 A4439CE-D    Hi In Po        R  510 Hc
Biorle        1318 B643976-A    Hi In Po           400 Hc
Diquer        1411 C86679C-5    Ag Ri              234 Hc
Socelage      1414 C665742-6    Ag Ri              313 Fr
Maxeedso      1418 B767777-7    Ag Ri              323 Fi
Anarlaqu      1420 D753755-5    Po                 210 Hc
Razaar        1515 E5538AC-3    Po                 100 Gi
Zadies        1618 B577978-9    Hi In           A  334 Hc

All maps in this post made using Traveller Map Post Function.

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It is now time for the first Summer Zhodani Base 76 Patrons Writing Contest. First prize will be something for a traveller collector, the old Paranoia Press supplement “Merchants and Merchandise“. (Printed by Games Workshop)

The style of the entries should be in the style of the patrons in CT Supplement 6, 76 Patrons.

Some of my own examples can be found here:

• Extra Imperial Grav-Ball
• Sophonts Rights
• The Restaurant
• Deliver Medicine
• Environmentalist Demonstration

The contest starts now and ends 30 Sept 2009. Write as many entries as You like.

After the 30:th of September 2009, all entries will be posted on the Zhodani Base. Registered users (on the 1:st of July) and participants in the competition may then vote (using a points system) on the entries they like the most.

By entering the contest You allow your entry to be posted at the Zhodani Base. All entries might also be posted in PDF format as a free down-loadable file at the Zhodani Base.

All entrants will be given credit for their work and will retain the copyright on their entries.

Some general guidelines:

1, Each entry should be less than 1000 words.

2, One image may be used in each entry. You must either have the right to the image, or it must be used under some sort of free licence. Wikimedia Commons is a good place to find an image that You can use. Please provide information about the image. (Is it Yours? If not, where have You found it? What license is used?) Note: You don’t need to use an image.

3, Each patron should offer 6 options.

4, Each patron should be placed in the Foreven Sector. You may use the version of the Foreven Sector that can be found here. (You don’t have to use this version.)

5, Please don’t force the PCs to sign up for (what they think are) illegal activities. It is better if they find that out later, or in some way are forced to take illegal action…

6, Please use a spell checker!

Send Your entries by e-mail. Please use plain text format and attach the image, if You select to use one. Word files will not be accepted!

As an alternative, contributors to the Zhodani Base may log in and write their entries here. Entries posted that way will be made visible when all other are.

Please include a preferred nickname (that can be Your real name) to show on the Zhodani Base. If You expect to win, include an address to send the first prize to.

Some help: (That you don’t have to use.)

• Foreven Map
• Foreven WriteUps