Traveller Nobles

[LKW]

Originally Posted by Athanell

Can any one put the Table of Contents up?

I'll try to get to it soon . . . I too have a lot of things on my plate right now.

[Athanell]

I am curious what it means as it describes life in the "Imperial Palace." The reason I am asking so many questions is I have a general GURPs space setting, but want to have a nobility and such. It is not specifically Travellers though, so I like general information that I can transfer. I already have ALOT of knowledge about noble titles, lifestyles, and such. But ideas are always fun.

[Athanell]

Guess I will just order it, and hope for the best. Laugh out loud.

[bopone]

I've been pouring through my copy; it even bumped GURPS 4e down my reading queue.

I love it--it is the best look inside the way the Imperial Government is put together and functions. Heck-it even lays out what the Cabinet is composed of (or at least most of it).

[bopone]

Question:
Is the Imperial Palace still the big hovering sphere from the old TRAVELLER DIGEST or is that now different? I notice there is not actual discussion of what the Imperial Palace actually looks like.

[Jon F. Zeigler]

Originally Posted by bopone

Question:
Is the Imperial Palace still the big hovering sphere from the old TRAVELLER DIGEST or is that now different? I notice there is not actual discussion of what the Imperial Palace actually looks like.

I don't think we said one way or the other, but my contention is that there are several Imperial Palaces. I believe someone suggested that the "hovering sphere" was a Palace originally built by Arbellatra, but that Strephon uses a less . . . gaudy . . . structure elsewhere on Capital.

[Athanell]

So, any one have that Table of Contents?

[Jürgen Hubert]

Another question: How useful would this book be for, say, Fading Suns? After all, FS also has a high-tech nobility...

[Kalamazoo]

Originally Posted by Athanell

So, any one have that Table of Contents?

INTRODUCTION
1. HISTORY
- Terran Precusrors
- Vilani Precursors
- The Second Imperium
- Sylean Precursors
2. THE IMPERIAL NOBILITY
- Classes of Nobility
- Noble Ranks
- The Imperial Family
- Orders of Knightood
- Imperial Protocol
3. THE NOBLE LIFE
- Childhood and Education
- Marriage
- Wealth
- Lifestyles
- Luxuries
- Pastimes and Passions
- Behavior and Ethics
- Life at Capital
4. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- The High Nobility
- The Imperial Military
- Imperail Civilian Ministries
- Imperial Courts and Imperial Justice
- The Imperial Moot
- Noble Carrer Paths
- Social and Cultural Obligations
5. VARIATIONS ON THE THEME
- Non-Humans and Foreigners
- Planetary Nobility
- Minor States
6. BIOGRAPHIES
- The Imperial Family
- The Imperial Archdukes
- The Tukera Family
- Individual Nobles
- Noble Families
7. CHARACTERS
- Advantages, Disadvantages, and Skills
* Extended Status Table
- Character templates
- Starships
* Deck Plans
8. CAMPAIGNS
- Backgrounds
- Noble in the Campaign
- Adventures
INDEX

Happy now ?

A *really* good GT supplement. On my top 3 list, with "Far Trader" and "Sworld Worlds" (I haven't finished "Starships" yet). Like these two other supplements, "Nobles" brings answers to questions that I have been asking myself (and others;-) since I have first heard of Traveller (in the late 80's). The presentation is clear, illustrations are fair (I don't like the cover, but it is still better than "Sword Worlds"'s ;-), a great index, as always, and content is well organised (except for "Planetary Orders of Knightood") and *very* interesting. Of course, the roles of nobility and various administrations in running the Imperium are explained/outlined, but you also find details about lifestyle of the (not so) rich and famous, how prominent/pervasive you can make them and how it may affect your campaign, as well as some starships and adventure seeds. All in all a well rounded supplement.
Now, for my part, I would have preferred to have still more content about the Imperium organisation and structures, as well as some details about Imperial law, instead of, for example, details about luxuries. Not that anything is lacking, just a personal preference.

[Athanell]

Like Jurgen above, I sort of want to use the information in another GURPs setting, a customized space campaign. How useful do you think it would be?I have already read about nobility, and customs etc. Does it contain a lot of unique ideas? Intrigue and such? From my impression about the Imperial Palace, it highlights the webs of intrigue at the Imperial Palace...