08-12-2017, 05:32 PM | #1 |
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Mapping Traveller Game System by Period
Hey,
Looking at the long list of different Traveller Game Systems on Wikipedia, I noticed most cover specific time periods. So I started to map them out. Period .. .Game System Interstellar War - .. . GURPS Traveller: Interstellar Wars (GURPS 4e) Second Imperium/Rule of Man - .. .. n/a Long Night - .. . n/a Third Imperium (Milieu 0) - .. .. T4: Marc Miller's Traveller Third Imperium (990 - Solomani Rim War) - . Traveller 20 Third Imperium (1095 1107) - . "Classic" Traveller Third Imperium (1107-1124 Rebellion Era) - .. MegaTraveller Third Imperium (1120 Non-Rebellion) - .. GURPS Traveller (GURPS 3e) But Im not clear what periods/era the following cover: Traveller: The New Era Traveller Hero Mongoose Traveller Traveller5 Mongoose Traveller 2nd Edition Can knowledgeable folks help? Thanks. -Dan |
08-12-2017, 06:31 PM | #2 | |
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Re: Mapping Traveller Game System by Period
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From the one book and a few sessions Mongoose Traveller (probably 1st ed) was just Milieu 0.
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08-12-2017, 09:10 PM | #3 |
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Re: Mapping Traveller Game System by Period
The New Era starts in 1200 Imperial of the Rebellion/Virus timeline.
The Long Night is reasonably represented by early (pre-High Guard) Classic Traveller. The Dark Nebula boardgame portrays the Aslan Border Wars (-1120 to 380 Imperial) in abstract terms. Last edited by thrash; 08-12-2017 at 09:24 PM. |
08-12-2017, 11:14 PM | #4 |
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Re: Mapping Traveller Game System by Period
The MegaTraveller era begins in 1116 with the beginning of the Rebellion. The background info in the core set is presented as of 1119.
The early New Era material (put out by GDW before its collapse) was set in 1200 and the years immediately following. The later licensed books were set in 1248 and featured a (much smaller) Fourth Imperium. Traveller Hero and Traveller 5 are nominally non-era-specific, although some elements of T5's character generation are dependent on the Third or Fourth Imperium's institutions being around. I believe that all of the first- and second-edition Mongoose Third Imperium books have a nominal starting date of 1105, right at the start of the Classic Traveller period. Given that they've issued second editions of more than one Classic Traveller adventure, this makes a certain amount of sense. |
08-13-2017, 03:19 AM | #5 |
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Re: Mapping Traveller Game System by Period
TNE - 1200+
TNNE - 1248+ T5 Galaxiad - 1900+ (in the works, no idea if it will ever see the light of day) No timeline is complete without considering MWM's novel Agent of the Imperium since it is the best source we have for what the 3I was like in the period 400 to 700ish. |
08-13-2017, 12:13 PM | #6 |
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08-17-2017, 10:03 PM | #7 |
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Re: Mapping Traveller Game System by Period
MegaTraveller covers through about 1140 in the Hard Times supplement
TNE is, as Chris noted, 1200-1220 or so. T20 is 990-1020, and has supplements for 1230-1260 or so. Traveller Hero is setting inspecific -it's got some coverage of Millieux 0, more for 1100 to 1230... MGT is, like CT, 1100-1115. So is MGT 2. T5 has no direct setting information; the default which Marc is working on is circa 1900. Note also: T4 is really focused upon the 50-100 period; the events of -10 to 20 are faits accompli. |
08-22-2017, 06:33 AM | #8 |
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Re: Mapping Traveller Game System by Period
Given that Virus hits in 1130, and Hard Times doesn't cover it's effects at all, saying it covers to 1140 is pretty generous. 1130 really is a hard cut-off for MT in the main, Virused, timeline unless you're very far away from 'known space' (and not in a coreward direction, because then the Empress Wave will mess you up).
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08-22-2017, 07:23 AM | #9 | |
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unfortunately Virus was released in 1130 and spread throughout the Imperium - something Hard Times couldn't account for since the flattening of the Imperium by Virus and the re-imaging of Traveller as TNE wasn't even thought about when C Gannon was writing Hard Times - I have the draft outlines somewhere of how he would have resolved the Rebellion era, and some of the terms he came up with would find their way into TNE, but the Virus was Frank Chadwick's idea as a way to reboot eh setting. The spread of Virus across the Imperium would have taken at least a few years, so there is overlap of Hard Times and Virus release. |
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08-22-2017, 01:57 PM | #10 | |
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