Wow...it's been a while since I've posted here.
Let's get back to speaking or talking (Ha!) about role playing games. One of my
favorite games is
one of the first sci-fi role playing games
Traveller. I still
have my old Traveller Book. In Traveller, the referee can run a variety of
sci-fi campgains, from military to trading, even espionage or exploration. I
think this is one of the benefits of the game. It's rules allow for different
styles of games. The referee can make their own setting or use the established
one. It's been around since 1977. The name Traveller refers to the game but it
has a variety of rules. From
GURPS to
Mongoose Traveller, which itself is based on the old Classic Traveller rules. The creator Marc
Miller currently publishes a version called
Traveller 5
abbreviated as T5. It's called Traveller 5, because it's the fifth incarnation
of the rule set that Miller has been involved with.
One of the things that Traveller fans have done over the years is called the
Traveller Landgrab. It's where fans take one of the published worlds for the
system and put their own spin on the world. There's hundreds of worlds most of
them found at the great site,
Traveller Map. The site
that used to house my 2006 Landgrab entry is down but it can still be found:
here
I wanted to repost it here. Orginally I posted it to the Traveller Mailing List. I picked the world Lahti, which was published in the
book
Gateway to Destiny, which is one of my favorite Traveller Books. Anyways, here's my old entry:
Lahti
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [TML]
Lahti/Crusis Margin 3030 Landgrab
Date: Fri, 23 Jun
2006 23:16:42 +0000
From: "Michael
McKeown"
Reply-To: The
Traveller Mailing List <tml@travellerrpg.com>
To:
tml@travellerrpg.com
Lahti/Crusis Margin
3030
I used Heaven and
Earth and modified the government details. I based this on
the subsector
write-up in Gateway to Destiny T20
UWP: A597AD9-E
PBG: 103
TRADE CODES: High
Population, Industrial
ALLEGIANCE:
Non-aligned
STELLAR DETAILS:
Primary Star: A5 V
Binary Star: G7 V
STAR SYSTEM ORBITAL
ZONES
1. Orbital Zones:
Primary Star: 6 (Bodies Orbit around Primary Star)
Binary Star: 9
(Binary Star Orbit around Primary Star)
SIZE RELATED DETAILS
1. Basic World Type:
Planet
2a. Planet Diameter:
4,900 miles (7,840 km)
2b. Planet Density:
Molten Core, 1.02 terra
5. World Mass: 0.249
terra
6. World Gravity:
0.637 terra
7. Planet Orbit
Period:
7a. Stellar Mass:
2.1 sol 0.89 sol
7b. Orbital
Distance: 5.2 AU
7c. Orbital Period:
4,590.925 standard days
9. Rotation Period:
9.171 standard hours
10. Axial Tilt: 43
degrees
11. Orbital
Eccentricity: 0.1
12. Seismic Stress
Factor: 0.0
ATMOSPHERIC RELATED
DETAILS
1. Atmospheric
Composition: Standard oxygen-nitrogen mix, with pollutant
taint
2. Surface
Atmospheric Pressure: 2.2 atm
3. Surface
Temperature:
3a. Stellar
Luminosity: 2.174
3b. Orbit Factor:
164.021
3c. Energy
Absorption: 0.7
3d. Greenhouse
Effect: 1.15
3e. Base
Temperature: 15.289 degrees C
4. Orbital
Eccentricity Effects: Tc=3 degrees C, Tf=-3 degrees C
5. Latitude
Temperature Effects: (Hex Row=Degrees C)
1=+15, 2=+10, 3=+5,
4=0, 5=-5, 6=-10, 7=-15, 8=-20, 9=-25, 10=-30, 11=-35
degrees C
6a. Axial Tilt Base
Increase: 25.8 degrees C
6b. Axial Tilt Base
Decrease: -43 degrees C
6c. Axial Tilt
Latitude Effects: (Hex Row=Degrees)
1=0.25, 2=0.5,
3=0.75, 4=1, 5=1, 6=1, 7=1, 8=1, 9=1, 10=1, 11=1 degrees
7a. Length of day
and Night: 4.586 standard hours
7b.
Rotation-Luminosity Effects: 2.183
7c. Daytime Rotation
Effects: 0.873 +per hour of daylight, 2,517.804
absolute maximum
plus temperature
7d. Nighttime
Rotation Effects: 0.5 -per hour of darkness, 28.829 absolute
maximum minus
temperature
11. Temperature
Worksheet: See separate section
12. Native Life:
Exists
13. Atmospheric
Terraforming: Has not occurred
14. Greenhouse
Effect Terraforming: Has not occurred
15. Albedo
Terraforming: Has not occurred
HYDROSPHERE RELATED
DETAILS
1. Hydrographic
Percentage: 68%
2. Hydrographic
Composition: Tainted liquid water
3. Tectonic Plates:
7
4. Hydrographic
Terraforming: Has occurred
5. Terrain
Terraforming: Has occurred
6. Continents and
Oceans: 1 major continents, 8 minor continents, 6 major
islands, 8
archipelagoes
8. Resources and
Goods:
Natural Resources:
Ores, Radioactives, Crystals
Processed Resources:
Agroproducts, Metals, Non-Metals
Manufactured
Resources: Parts, Durables, Consumables, Weapons
Information
Resources: Recordings, Artforms, Software, Documents
9. Weather Control:
Is practiced
POPULATION RELATED
DETAILS
1. Total World
Population: 10,000,000,000
3. Cities:
3e. Medium-Large
Cities (UWP Pop-2): Cities=16, Population/City=500,000,000
3g. Moderate-Size
Cities (UWP Pop-3): Cities=24, Population/City=50,000,000
3i. Small Cities
(UWP Pop-4): Cities=112, Population/City=5,000,000
3k. Very Small
Cities (UWP Pop-5): Cities=480, Population/City=500,000
4. Primary Cities:
10
5. Starports and
Spaceports: A/C/A/B/A/A/A/D/A/C
6. Orbital Cities:
Present
7. Social Outlook:
7a. Progressiveness:
Radical, Advancing
7b. Aggressiveness:
Unaggressive, Neutral
7c. Extensiveness:
Harmonious, Friendly
8a. Number of
Customs: 4
8b-g. Local
Customs/Practicing Group:
Fixed time for
visiting.../Certain races.
Certain food sources
taboo/Certain sex.
Unusual punishment
required for.../Certain sex.
Have extravagent
quarters/High social class.
RELATED DETAILS
1. Representative
Authority Guide: Religious Dictatorship
2. Representative
Authority: Ruler
3. Division of
Authority: No division
8. Religious Profile
8a. God View:
Philosophical atheism
8b. Spiritual Aim:
Believers seek to expand the frontiers of knowledge
through inquiry and
speculation.
8c. Devotional
Requirement: Weekly
8d. Organization
Structure: Rigid hierarchy with most decisions on a
regional level.
8e. Liturgical
Formality: Emphasis is laid on communal teaching with limited
ritual.
8f. Missionary
Fervor: Ordinary among a limited number of sophont races
8g. Number of
Adherents: 9,000,000,000
LAW RELATED DETAILS
1. Uniformity of
Law: Personal
2. Legal Profile:
9-GDFDE
TECHNOLOGY RELATED
DETAILS
1. High Common Tech
Level: E
2a. Low Common TL
Limits: Upper=E, Lower=7
2b. Low Common TL: 7
3a. Energy TL
Limits: Upper=G, Lower=7
3b. Energy TL: E
4a.
Computer/Robotics TL Limits: Upper=G, Lower=5
4b.
Computer/Robotics TL: D
5a. Communications
TL Limits: Upper=G, Lower=5
5b. Communications
TL: F
6a. Medical TL
Limits: Upper=G, Lower=0
6b. Medical TL: D
7a. Environment TL
Limits: Upper=G, Lower=B
7b. Environment TL:
F
8a. Land Transport
TL Limits: Upper=G, Lower=B
8b. Land Transport
TL: E
9a. Water Transport
TL Limits: Upper=E, Lower=9
9b. Water Transport
TL: E
10a. Air Transport
TL Limits: Upper=E, Lower=9
10b. Air Transport
TL: E
11a. Space Transport
TL Limits: Upper=G, Lower=D
11b. Space Transport
TL: F
12a. Personal
Military TL Limits: Upper=G, Lower=0
12b. Personal
Military TL: E
13a. Heavy Military
TL Limits: Upper=G, Lower=0
13b. Heavy Military
TL: E
14. Novelty Tech
Level: F
TEMPERATURE
WORKSHEET
---------------------
LATITUDE BASE
HEX BASE TEMPERATURE
TEMPERATURE
ROW TEMPERATURE
EFFECTS FOR HEX ROW
1 15 15 30
2 15 10 25
3 15 5 20
4 15 0 15
5 15 -5 10
6 15 -10 5
7 15 -15 0
8 15 -20 -5
9 15 -25 -10
10 15 -30 -15
11 15 -35 -20
AXIAL TILT HIGHEST
HEX SUMMER AXIAL
TILT TEMP PLUS DAYTIME ORBIT ECC TEMP
FOR
ROW PLUS FACTOR IN
SUMMER PLUS PLUS HEX ROW
1 26 0.25 6 4 0.1 41
2 26 0.5 13 4 0.1 42
3 26 0.75 19 4 0.1
44
4 26 1 26 4 0.1 45
5 26 1 26 4 0.1 40
6 26 1 26 4 0.1 35
7 26 1 26 4 0.1 30
8 26 1 26 4 0.1 25
9 26 1 26 4 0.1 20
10 26 1 26 4 0.1 15
11 26 1 26 4 0.1 10
AXIAL TILT LOWEST
HEX WINTER AXIAL
TILT TEMP MINUS NIGHTTIME ORBIT ECC TEMP
FOR
ROW MINUS FACTOR IN
WINTER MINUS MINUS HEX ROW
1 -43 0.25 -11 2
-0.1 17
2 -43 0.5 -22 2 -0.1
1
3 -43 0.75 -32 2
-0.1 -14
4 -43 1 -43 2 -0.1
-30
5 -43 1 -43 2 -0.1
-35
6 -43 1 -43 2 -0.1
-40
7 -43 1 -43 2 -0.1
-45
8 -43 1 -43 2 -0.1
-50
9 -43 1 -43 2 -0.1
-55
10 -43 1 -43 2 -0.1
-60
11 -43 1 -43 2 -0.1
-65
HISTORY - Solomani
colonists settled Lahti during the ending years of the
Rule of Man. Lahti
retained starflight during the Long Night and sent ships
to surrounding
worlds. Those worlds however remained independent as the
years went by. Hiver
Federation contacts in the early years of the distant
Third Imperium
helped keep Lahti?s technology level at the highest for this
part of the
subsector. A few Vilani settlers traveled to the planet in later
years as word of the
governmental view traveled across known space. Now the
planet is an active
trading partner in the subsector. The planet exports
varying types of
products.
GOVERNMENT - Lahti is
ruled by the Society for a Rational Spirit. The
government strictly
prohibits other organized religions. All persons working
in large
organizations such as corporations and the military are expected to
be practicing
members. The government sponsors a sizable Naval and marine
force. A highport
Naval base orbits near the highport area of the starport.
There is also a
naval base on the planet Lahti I Epsilon. The navy has three
light cruisers of
around 17,000 tons of Solomani design. The other ships are
patrol cruisers,
fighters, close escorts and SDB?s. The government has
extremely poor
relations with the Droyne in the subsector since the Droyne
failed to respond to
a Lahtian merchant?s ship?s distress call two years
ago.
ATOMSPEHERE - The
atmosphere is tainted by thick smog and filter masks must
be worn outside.
Years of uncontrolled burning of hydrocarbons led to the
thick smog.
POPULATION - The
population lives in extended urban areas and 2 orbital
cities. The capital
city of the planet is Sego with a population of
500,000,000. Several
of the other major cities are Logan, Nice, Turin and
Newago. Coastal
communities support the capture of fish and the mountain
ranges are the
locations of ore mines including uranium and magnesium and
coalmines.
CULTURE - Pregnant
women are not allowed to eat meat or fish products and
Women who commit
crimes are forced to have numbers tattooed on their right
forearms and the
data entered into a planetary database. These women are
forbidden to enter
the military or work in large corporations.
Despite the overall
conservative culture of Lahti, the planet trades in
substantial portions
with the Hiver worlds to trailing. The Hive Federation
has a trade compound
on the capital city, Sego.
Adventure seeds: The
PC's are asked to escort several large Lahtian merchant
ships a few parasecs
to Hiver space and return with a cargo load of Hiver
robots.
The Church of
Stellar Divinity has hired the PC?s to free by any means
necessary several
members of their faith being held in Lahtian prison.
The PC?s are asked
to deliver a load of cargo to a mining colony on a gas
giant moon orbiting
the secondary star. What could possibility go wrong??
