Travel the Spinward Marches

About the adventure

Hi! I'm an experienced Traveller GM who enjoys running several ongoing weekly game sessions. These first sessions will be a series of short adventures to gather a group of 4-5 dedicated regulars for an ongoing campaign. The game is Mongoose Traveller V2. Expect deluxe custom content suited to your PC's background and interests. My objective is to gather a fun crew for an ongoing science fiction campaign in the Spinward Marches of the Imperium. Participate in the opening adventures to get to know each other, your characters' galaxy, and your GM. Expect a game style more like Firefly than Star Trek. My Tuesday session is full so I'm starting a second group. The campaign will involve a lot of salvage & scavenging with limited support from the Imperial Scout Service (ISS) and the Imperial Nave. Your PC's background & objectives should include doing well by doing good. Short term goal is to build and operate an anti-piracy armada to protect District 268 from pirates. The 50+ year goal goal is to help District 268 join the Imperium. Your PC may be as exotic as you like. Vargr and Aslan are particularly appropriate non-human aliens in District 268. All sorts of PCs could join this crew so long as they want to oppose pirates and reavers. My stories & games are a mix of existing adventures and my own content. Players have agency to decide upon their goals, methods, and approach. I typically rely on pre-written Traveller adventures for 2/3 of content and create 1/3. I'll alter my play style to suit the character party and the situation. Expect a combination of sandbox play and adventures-on-rails. Some one-shot adventures I have prepared and run for previous groups: * Intro to Travelling on the Tanagra * Find & salvage a lost battlecruiser from a war 30 years ago * Downtime on a tech 6 planet during extended ship repairs at a class B starport gets both interesting & dangerous. Heroes are called for. * Investigate & salvage a lost scientific lab ship * Beware the Health Police: Keystone-Cops style light-hearted comedy-horror on a dystopian planet, Survias, controlled by globalist oligarchs using biosecurity-based turnkey totalitarianism. Written in 1985. * Infiltration & espionage * Marooned on a low tech world * Investigate a scientific research station that has stopped communicating * Investigate the deep history of humanity and other sentient races. Is there a progenitor species that once spread life & intelligence through the seedling stars? Is it still around? * Heroes needed to protect miners in a remote mining installation * Robin Hood in Space * Naval combat between space ships. Sometimes I'll abstract this component for purposes of getting on with the story, other times, players willing, we can use a map grid and make this a game unto itself. * Player-driven adventures. I'll use pre-made adventures to fill in some weeks, as creating exciting new content every week gets challenging.