Traveller Starship Technical Manual: Purpose Statement

I've always admired the way in which Star Trek ((c) Paramount Pictures) has attempted to be internally consistent. While many might have problems with its "particle of the week" plot devices and sometimes sloppy science, the effort that went in to the Star Trek Technical Manual and Star Trek Interactive Technical Manual has always impressed me. The authors strove to give a solid technical framework for the adventures of the various Star Trek series and movies.

Decades ago Digest Group Publications brought out the Starship Operators' Manual. SJ Games has published GURPS Traveller Starships. This site does not directly reflect either source. I Consider the information here heretical. It's purpose is to provide the GM with a source for self consistent technical data, which will not always be scientifically accurate according to the laws of physics and engineering as we now understand them. To that I have two answers. The first: We don't know every thing. The previously discredited string theory is undergoing a resurgents that threatens to question the validity of the Big Bang premise itself. Who can tell what that might mean to the way we view physics? The second: It's only a game.

Like most of my web pages the STM is long on texture and short on game mechanics. This is to allow the material to be used with any version of Traveller you wish. Where a out of character (OOC) statement is appropriate look for this symbol . Clicking on the Imperial Sun will take you to a page where game mechanics or other OOC information is contained. Some of the information contained here-in is based on ideas originally posted online by J. Duncan Law-Green. I have expanded on some of his ideas and used others directly. The standard copywrite notices elsewhere on this site apply.

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