Okay, so here's all of the information and background for the Traveller PbP.


Traveller Play by Post Info

Setting: Standard 3rd Imperium, in the Spinward Marches

Info below is copied and pasted from http://traveller.wikia.com

Also called The Imperium. Founded in 0 by Cleon Zhunastu from the Sylean Federation in what is now Core Sector. The Imperium grew swiftly during the pacification campaigns and more slowly thereafter until stability was reached in the 600’s, by which time the Imperium had absorbed much of the territory of the First and Second Imperiums.
Government Structure: The Imperium can be best thought of as a form of feudal confederation. Member worlds of the Imperium agree to pay taxes and obey a few fundamental laws which the Imperium promulgates, known as the High Laws. In return, the Imperium agrees to patrol the space between the worlds, to protect interstellar trade, to encourage travel and commerce, and to arbitrate diplomatic relations between worlds. Beyond this, individual worlds are left to their own devices so long as they acknowledge the power of the Imperium to rule the space between the stars.
Imperial power is present on member worlds in the form of consulates, bureaucratic offices, and bases. Sometimes, larger enclaves of Imperial power are placed where they can enhance the emperor’s strength.
The Imperium’s territory is divided into sectors, which are in turn divided into subsectors and systems. Groups of sectors, called domains, have been created above the sector level.
During the Pacification Campaigns, Emperor Artemsus divided space into six regions, labeled them domains, and appointed an archduke over each of them. To each archduke, he assigned the continuing pacification of the domain’s many systems and their integration into the Imperium. The domains were: Sylea (Core, Fornast, Massilia, Delphi), Vland (Corridor, Vland, Gushemege, Dagudashag), Gateway (Ley, Glimmerdrift Reaches, Gateway, Crucis Margin), llelish (Ilelish, Zarushagar, Reaver’s Deep, Daibei), Antares (Lishun, Antares, Mendan, Amdukan), and Sol (Dispora, Old Expanses, Solomani Rim, Alpha Crucis). Most of the domains were never totally absorbed into the Imperium.
In 589, during the First Frontier War, a seventh domain was established- Deneb (Spinward Marches, Deneb, Trojan Reach, Reft) The intent was to appoint an archduke to be responsible for their supervision. However, the Civil War broke out before an archduke was appointed.
Following the civil war, the emperors expressed concern about individuals with powers equaling their own, so they moved to lessen the power of the archdukes in the Imperial government Because of this, no archduke of Deneb was ever appointed. As a result, the domains came to have little practical significance. Each archduke did retain the power to create knights and baronets.
In the years after the Fourth Frontier War, and after the problems it presented from lags in communication, Emperor Strephon felt a strengthened archduke position could enable the Imperium to more quickly respond in defending the realm. Against the protests and opposition of some prominent members of the Moot, Strephon reestablished the domain as a level in the bureaucracy of the Imperial Navy and returned to the Domain the ability to collect taxes Still later, Strephon gave the archdukes the ability to legislate and enforce the desires of the emperor on the local level.

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I don't know a lot about the 3rd Imperium, so we'll assume the standard setting, and you guys might need to occasionally correct me on things.

I'll be using screenshots from http://www.travellermap.com/ from time to time to show maps.\

*Important: Additional contact: ScrubKai, I have chosen to give your character, Andros, an additional contact. Your additional contact is Vlen Backett, an uncle who had associations with the mining company you worked for. Your father worked closely with Vlen on many occasions, and so you got to know him well. He's not actually your uncle, that term simply being an honorarium as you were used to seeing him a lot when you were a child. Although he had close connections to your father's mining company, you were never really sure what "Uncle" Vlen did for a living. He seemed to be a restless soul, always drifting through space, and although he had many acquaintances he didn't really seem to have very many, if any, close friends, apart from your father.

Current Status: The PCs (that's you!) own a standard scout ship, with some modifications. You're currently at the Ruie system in the Regina subsector of the Spinward Marches (see map below). I'll let you decide what you're doing there.



I think that should about do it. Additional info might be added later.

EDIT: PbP specific info:

Words like this in italics are descriptions of the setting or scene.
Words like this in red are rule-related, ie, make a stealth check, take 4 damage, etc.
Words like this in green are NPC speech.
Regular words like this are, well, regular words and will be used in other circumstances.
Please try to follow these schemes in your own posting as well, to make things easier to follow.
Ex - Vargran whips out his heavy blaster pistol and shouts "Die alien scum!" Rolls a 7 to hit
Now, how to roll the dice?? I'm willing to trust you guys on your word, but if there's an online dice roller out there that lets you paste some kind of legitimacy code into the forum, let me know and we'll use that. Thoughts??

Well, what are we waiting for? Let's get started!

I am here trying to start a new Church...