MB PROCEEDINGS J8A

May 31, 1992 - A Traveller Fanzine produced by ClaytanR.Bush

. Argusbiigi Admcgulasba BilaDidiD: The "VUani Repositoty of All Knowledge." A
combined university, museum, and research center em VlaruVVland in the Restored Vilani
Empire; The Oldest such institution in charted space, the 11,()()()..year-old institute has an
Imperium-wide reputation as a clearinghouse for patents and technology.

Contents
CollectedNotes •••••••.•.•••••••• 2
OpenLetter • • • • •• • • . • • • • . • • • • • •• 3
Revision Update •••••••.•••.•••.• 4
Supplement
IDWG MembeJ:shipDirectOIy: lists
active members alphabetically, with
mailing address and phone mnnbets.
,AAB PIoceedings 188
Scbedu1edfar June 3O! The other six
pages plus a list of current lHWG
docmnents and works in progress.
AABP18 was cut in half becatme of
mailing C<l6ts. And the material to the
light required immediate distribution!
Imperial Unes
- Mike Mikesh
Geo Gelinas is the editor-in-chief of br1pmall..irN:s. Being a submariner, he has not
had much chance to direct things other than to dothc editor's remarks in ··X-link".
He might have, more opportunity for invOlvement in his next assignment.
Far now. all submissions, art, and articles come to me. I do the primary selection
and the editing. After that, it goes to John Meycrs. Its a very workable system. I
work with the wrlters and artists; John wOIks with GDW.
DcmdsMyers is not much invOlved in Traveller any more•
. I'maskingformateriaJ (lOOOwarckarless). What wenced are random nuggets
(above all else),bestiarties, short discussi.ons (suc.h as law enforcement in the Vargr
Extents), equipment, and small cargoes. Send querles to me, and marlc all envelopes
br1pmall..irN:s.
ISSUE.3
Imp:tf81LiDt:s #3 is our Vtlani & Vargrissue. Materi.al is due to me by June 30.
Here'sbowtheplansstand: -
V AROR.: First, I plan an article called "Raid!" discussi.nghowtonman
adventlU'e where PC Vargr take part in a raid against an ex-Imperial world. This was
originally an adventure. The new approach shortens it, leaving ideas that can be
ported to Diaspora and the Star Viking era.
Second, an article about thoughts andmateri.al about Vargrthat did not find a place
in Vilani&V8rJJr.
Third, way baclcin TS##8,Phil Morrissey drew a cartootiofVargr corsai:rs looting a
hold, only to puzzle over a bra and a smelly sock. I'm going to write Phil and ask if we
-can reuse that far D..Jt3.
VILANI: Doyou have anything you might consider submitting for the Vtlani side?
Two possibilities come to my mind, if anyaDe wants to pursue them..
F'lISl, what's thatliding animal on page 17 in Vcf-J"'l Write up a bestiary and
include statistics far MT compatible with c.diUlla cf-~
Second, what about Vilani liquors? list plices, characteristics, and special com-
ments for several. Other data far Small Cargoes might be useful.

ISSUE :f#4.
llJt4 is tentatively the Zhodani & Psionics issue. Farstar asked, "When is materi.al
- -far ll..tt4 due?"" I estimate late October.
Paul Sanders and James "Farstar" Kundert are working to create the NoqI-class
300 ton Zhodani frontier trader. This will actually include a dcclcplan! %"%
Collected Notes
Subscription and
Memberships
.RidwrlBool:"Will you please get in
touch with all members and tell them .
when theirmembersbips nm out (since it
is no longer measured by the Tiffany star
issue)'l"
CRB:S'mcethe last issue af'Iiffany
Star was #29, AABP17 counts as Tiffany
Star 30 for computing whenyour
membersbipnms out. Ed Edwards is
converting to numbering subscriptionsin
terms of AABP issues.
I have sent membership lists to
regional coordinators showing all
addresses in Oreat Britain, Australia,
and New Zealand, respectively;that
were sent a copy of AABP17. They
should tell me of anycme missedintbe
changeover.
Vargr
Roger Myhre has started a Vargr
fanzinc, "Kfan Uzangou." The editorial
was entitled. •"The Editor Barks." It
included some library data em Ovurrdon, . completed. I have a hardcopy, however, I
and an interview with the leader of the
Kforuzeng band.
He intends to distribute it free to those somepiecemcal updating for Hard
active in Quadrant I, and to the four
Quadrant Editors. OtherS must pay to
subscribe, so that he can recover some of the tables and manipulated them as far as
his costs. (I wonder who be copied that
payment plan fnm'l)
Zhodani
- JaJDes uFarstar" Kundert
The "Zhodani Dictionary and-
Glossary" (1992 Edition) will go into
the mall to Oay and other interested.
parties (as amwG Doc) as soon as I get
it laser printed.
Zhdant
- William Dover
"No one's really accepted the number
ofDroyne worlds in my sector listing, so - . K-Antares
Mav. 1992
I'm cutting back on them." He's
reducing number ofDroyne worlds in
Zhdant to six Droyne and seven Chirper
worlds. Those numbers are not as far
from the usual rates of occurencc, and
still leave room for deliberate Zhodani
interference.
Antares
- James Maliszewski
The UWP statistics for the sector are
believe Paul Dtye has the data on disk.
The data is all circa 1120. I've done
Times, but it's VCIyunscientific and
skewed to my vision of Antares. I used
.possible to get the results I wanted. No
random rolling for this guy!
Once I know either my school address
in Canada or GDW's plans for my folio
adventure, I'll be sure to let you know .
.. A - Pelusium: .-
B-Nink
C-Dartho
D - Oulduktak
E - Shurlarlem
F-Sarar
G-Gimgir
H - Kiirlamdin
I-Unmishu
. J-Umadnim
PaQ'e 2
.9
L-Mukusi
M-Argusap
N -Gaakish
O-Sakhag
P-Marlkaad
Knocllighz
-BobGrob
I am breaking out of denial and
realizing that I hav~ beenlosing touch
with reality by becoming a compulsive
gamer. This has led me to rea1.ize that I
cannot handle gaming, and must make a
clean break with all my previous gaming
activities. I have therefore gotten rid cl
all my science fiction and Traveller
gaming materials.: I found it extemely
difficult to do ~ and especially because
it has caused the loss of many good
mends who did not understand. If I had
continued, I suspect that I would have
eventually lost my sanity - I was already
living in a fantasy world 40-60 hours a
week.
Because of the foregoing, I aJD going to
on
have to renege the promised articles
as well as coordinator ofKnoelligbz
sector. Unfortunately all disk data has
been. lost sol no longer have all the
UWPs for Knoelligbz, but I didscnd 1/4
of the UWPs to Farstarin prl.ntcdform.
Your friend,
BobGrob . %A%
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- CbuckKallenbach issue, and print much of the library data

'AAB Proceedings,
There seems to be some confusion and adventure material I had generated Publication Information
regarding the FASA and Ares magazine over the years. I printed SO copies of the
AAB~isafanzinefor
versions of the Far Frontiers sector. As I fust issue, and took them to GenCon 90.
am the one who seems to be ./mIaI1dat/zw - I proudly gave a copy to Joe Fugate. He developing the Traveller universe. It
this material, let me set the record was glad to see me, and said people had - is a fan document, and discussioos are
straigbL been looking for lnfOIJDation on the meant to exchange ideas.
I believe that Paranoia Press was the Reaches and Beyond for years. About Produced and distrlbuted by Clayton
second or tbirdlicensee for Traveller the newsletter, however, ..•• R. Bush, HIWO's Quadrant 1 Editor.
from ODW. Things were pretty fast and The Beyond had already been given to
loose in those days. First, our royalty fee TadRingo to redevelop, since DGP was Subscriptions &; Back Issucs
was evidently quite a bargain (or 80 not in touch with Don Rapp. Tad inter- It is distrlbuted free to all active
Jordan Wiesman ofFASA kept telling preted the lumps as a large political and HIWO members. All others may
me). Second, approval was rather lax. asttographic entity sticking into the acquire copies at $1.00 per issue. Back
SORAO was literally approved over the trailing edge of the Vanguard Reaches. . issues cast $1.00 per issue.
phone. That whole book was written, Tad was at the conventloo, and we talked
typeset, and approved in one month. about coordinating efforts. SubmissiODS
WhenDonRapp and I goi the original It rapidly became evident that I would Those interested in submitting
patents to Beyond and Vanguard have to redesign my sector to be material sendit to: ClaytonR. Bush;
Reaches, rc:spectively, I askcdMarc compatible with all these changes. PO Box 119; limon, CO 80828.
what the heck the lumps were on the old Swallowing my pride, I decided to alter
Imperium map. He said the lumps were ---my dot map and redesign the sector. In -Co:ppigbt
inteIpreteddifferently. Some developers one sense. my baby. my creation, had - All materials are copyrighted by
used them as stellar concentrations, been rejected. In another, I was anxious AUI'HOR, and printed for discussion
some aspoUtical divisions. We could do for the cbancetoredesign the sector and by permission. (N.B. Copyrigb1law
whatwewa'n1edwiththem~ _. - doitrighL protects words, not ideas.)
_ We Qsed the lumps as politiCal entities.
The big lump that overlapped the border Ac;knnwled,mcmts -
REDESIGN
between our two sectors was defined as As other sectors came into print, the 71aJldlt:r and Mep71aJldlt:r are
theCosentien1A!llanceandinhabited~ lumpsbecamemoreandmoreoftenused trademarks owned by Game Designers
all kinds of races. as clusters of systems. Sometimes there Workshop. References to products of
When TkSJinwarrlMIUCIx:s came were no systems outside the lumps at all. GDW or its licensees are not intended
out, I was amazed at how few planets Having played in my Van.,.cruardReaches to infringe OIl their lights. .
there were in the entire sector. System far years I determined that it was so full
BIWG Connection
densi.tywas 50% in the oidruies. Being a of systems that there were no rifts or
graphic artist and working for a printer, I backwaters. It was too easy to get - IOWG rHistOIy oftbe Imperium
surmised that this was done to get one anywhere, even with a JUIIlP"2 staIsbip. Working Groupj is a fan organization
subsect.or on one page neatly.' __ Another factor in the redesign was that detailing the official MegaTraveller
WhenIgenc:ratedmysector,IWen1__ I had been working on this sectorfortcm - universe. For information, write to:
... - .-
sttictly by the book-sort of. A fric:ndhad years and was nowhere ncar finishing. I
EdBdwards; 1410 E. Boyd; Norman,
an Apple n and a thermal printer, andhe hope your sector analysts are aware of
OK 73071-2650.'
started generating systems and Subsec- what they are getting into. Scaling down
tors by the boatload. I took the ones I . was a good idea. KevinPeny; 29 The Drive; Orpngton,
liked, and cut and pasted them together. The first thing I did wasbi.ke an old Kent BR6 9AR; UDitedKingdom
uiap Or the imperium andlitera1ly blow. Dave Schneider; S East Avenue;
NEW-BEGINNING- up the little section showing my sector to Allenby' Gardens; S. Australia 5009;
Two years ago, I developed a news- 11 x 17 size. 'This cmablCdme to trace the . Austialia
letter called VANREX, named for the_ lumps very accurately.! wanted them to
primary news sc:rvlce in the Vanguard. .-, represent COI¥:eDttations of systems,
reaches. It would detail a subsectar per with limited acc:ess to other lumps.
 Open Letter on How Vanguard Reames Deveioped.(conJ
Hyou look at the Imperium map, you will see that several ~
lumps extend corewardinto Far Frontiers. I had already agreed TERIALS
to cede tbrcc subsectoIs on the trailing edge to TadRingo for The funny thing about the whole VANREX experience is that
the Malikbar Crescent. I rc:alizcd that., UDder the same logic, I I spent a lot of time in my campaign working on Vargr and
should be defining these lumps inFar Frontiers. That is why Solomani factions that have becnleft out of the new Reaches.
my dot map for the "VanguardReacbeS" extends into Far A lot of the gaming inmy gaming is unpubUsbable. However, I
Frontiers and even Ylklc:rzdaDzh. have some great adventures regarding the Eslyat that may see
By the way, someone was ttying to figure out whatkind~· print some day. Also, thcreis a MegaTraveller revision of
stellar density I used whenI generated the new dot map for SOllA Gavailable for anyone who wants it.
SolaolJlJiIl1XIAslllIJ. I just drew the new map. Even in the old Everything will have to be redcsignedfor the New Eta, but
rules,GDWsaiditwasbette1"whe!lyouputthing$scmewbete that'salrlghtwithme.IhavebecnusingtheTwiligbt:2000
onpurposc and not USC therand<n generatianprocess. ........ Second Edition, and I like it very much. .
. I was unaware of the FASA and Ares material duringtbis' .For anyone watiting currCntiDfonnation about the Vanguard
pr~JoeFugatcand TadRingodidnohncntionit tonic. .. Reaches, please gctac:opyofmynew libraty data, HIWG
Joe just said, ··Get the dot map done andseodit tome andit . Document 8001. The tive pages oflibraIy data in lID 130.03
· will gointo SoIotDaDi6DdAsllID." Sol did, and tbcrcit is. As·· are also new and accurate. I'm sony to say that the old
Joe says, under the law of supersession, tbenew stuff is VanguardReachcs booldetis pretty much obsolete. The Eslyat
correct. . have c:bangedfrom squids to lizards, andm06t of the wilder
There is still a lot of Far Frontiers left to ddiDe. I wouldlikc ideas are gme.
to see some oftheKelth brothers' stufffrornFASA beretaincd So much for anclentbistoryl I hope JDWG can soldier on and
somewhere. I talked to DonRapp, and be said I can continue to weather the transition tothe New ED. I am excited about this
develop his races from the old Beyond sector (like the Sred*Ni evolution, and lookforward to working in the good old
andMal'Guar) and his other COIK:epts.I hope toin1egrate them VanguardReachcs. %"%
into the Vanguard Reaches 801lltlWhcrc. For whatit's worth, I
miss the name Bt!}'QDd

.. Traveller Revision Folio Adventures

GDWbassettledonthenameTravcller:1beNeWBra GDW has released Assignment: J1gilntt; its first Traveller
(abbreviated "TNEj. This simplifies referring to the revision ~ folio adventure. At least one other is in the works..
W ardis that they are leaning toward a D20 (twenty-sided Folio adventures are 16 pages, and will be adventures without
die) system for resolving tasks. Difficulty levels would simply rules. One reason the old Traveller adventures contained rules
be dOlJble what they are in Twilight: 2000. which uses D10. section was that they helped sell the supplement to people who
Star Vlkings is no longer a miniatures product. It was not said didnot want the adventure itself.
what it will be, andI seenopointinidlespeculation. Folio adventures will pennit better support of the Traveller
lineJt is much easier to produce them than it is to produce a
Dangerous Dimensions new 96-page supplement orplaytest a new rules section. Faster
Bynow,everyoncontbemailingshouldhavereceivednews productionmcansmoretimely support of the game system. .
of the new GDW game byGary Gyglix. (Challenge had a flyer; . I am prompted totbink mthe "Search for Excellence" rule:
· .and the stores have the same flyer.) Initial efforts seem. focused 'Iiy to be 1% better at a thousand things, rather than tIying to be
· anMythus, an alternate ancient Earth. - . 1000% better at one thing. Companies thai focus on only
Otherproduets are promised. On GEnie, GDW asked what . breakthrough products tend to fall behind others thatbep
supplements to the DD systems would people be interestedin .. working at continuouslyimproYingproducts.
buying. Cowboy WesternandEspionage arouscdintcrest. . _ SPI, with its flooding release schedule, shows the danger of
There are two interesting T:2000 adventures in the OenCan the other extreme. If the folio adventures do not glut the market,
prereg booklet: the shootoutfrom 7JJc WUdlJundJ and some- as D&D modules did, stores will carry them.
thing called 'The Sm*rfs Must Diel" IfI got into the evcnts(l I am hopeful aboutthefolioadventures, although others may
SCDtinaprereg),1 may havescme interesdng storlestotell prefer to hope for occasional major releases like DGP's Alien
after August. Books. A suggestion for inquiry letters to GDW: plot, setting,
andcbaractets. And anyone cancopy a movie or otbcrplot. ...

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