Terraforming the Solar System

[combatmedic]

It seems to me that many of the published Traveller adventures were written with the assumption that the PCs are freelance operatives or mercs. They might be hired to extract a fugitive, recover embarassing documents from a blackmailer, steal technical data from a corporation, break somebody out of jail, or even overthrow the local government on some backwater planet. Kidnapping and even assassination are not necessarilly out of the question, depending on the circumstances and the pay.


Now, such characters might well have their own codes of ethics, as Jason has mentioned. It doesn't seem likely to me that they will generally be paragons of '20th century democratic idealism.'


Many are ex-military. The military is definitely not a democracy.

Some are nobles with titles but little money.

The social structure of the Imperium as a whole is strongly hierarchical, and not 'democratic' or 'egalitarian'

Some PCs may be from worlds with democratic governments, but many will be from worlds governed by feudal technocracies, oligarchies, dicatorships, etc