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[[Agent of the Imperium]] is a [[Traveller]] novel of the [[OTU]] [[universe]] telling the story of a secret agent and his efforts to serve and preserve the [[Third Imperium]]. | [[Agent of the Imperium]] is a [[Traveller]] novel of the [[OTU]] [[universe]] telling the story of a secret agent and his efforts to serve and preserve the [[Third Imperium]]. | ||
− | * It is a 2015 Novel by [[Marc Miller]] published by [[FFE]]. | + | * It is a 2015 Novel by [[Marc Miller]] published by [[FFE]]. A new edition was published by Baen Books in 2020. |
== Description ([[Specifications]]) == | == Description ([[Specifications]]) == | ||
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===Wafer-tech & Skillsets=== | ===Wafer-tech & Skillsets=== | ||
− | [[Wafer]]s are an electronic storage medium by which the personality of a [[sophont]] may be stored and preserved. A [[sophont]] with an external [[computer-brain interface]], a jack, can insert a wafer and assume the personality stored on the wafer. Unfortunately, the body that stored the original personality cannot survive the transfer process from a living [[sophont]] mind to a stored personality. It is a lethal, mortal life-ending process. The mind lives on in the wafer as a sort of [[infomorph]]. | + | [[Wafer]]s are an electronic storage medium by which the personality of a [[sophont]] may be stored and preserved. A [[sophont]] with an external [[computer-brain interface]], a jack, can insert a [[wafer]] and assume the personality stored on the wafer. Unfortunately, the body that stored the original personality cannot survive the transfer process from a living [[sophont]] mind to a stored [[personality]]. It is a lethal, mortal life-ending process. The [[mind]] lives on in the wafer as a sort of [[infomorph]]. |
− | A [[skillset]] is similar to a wafer but far more limited. | + | A [[skillset]] is similar to a wafer but far more limited. [[Skillset]]s only store learned skills, not entire [[sophont]] minds. Skillsets are very useful under limited scenarios, but long-term usage leads to brain deterioration. |
− | Both [[technologies]] remain in use throughout the [[Third Imperium]], but not under widespread, commonplace usage. Neither [[technology]] is permanent or long-lasting. Wafer personalities and skillset abilities rarely last for more than thirty days. Both [[technologies]] temporarily overwrite and replace part or the whole of the host mind. Some details of the ''wafer-mind supplementation process'' are still not well understood. | + | Both [[technologies]] remain in use throughout the [[Third Imperium]], but not under widespread, commonplace usage. Neither [[technology]] is permanent or long-lasting. Wafer personalities and [[skillset]] abilities rarely last for more than thirty days. Both [[technologies]] temporarily overwrite and replace part or the whole of the host mind. Some details of the ''wafer-mind supplementation process'' are still not well understood. |
− | === The Five Wafer Types === | + | === The Five Agent Wafer Types === |
− | There are five kinds of [[wafer]]: each with its own attributes and benefits: (pg. 177) | + | There are five kinds of [[agent]] [[wafer]]: each with its own attributes and benefits: (pg. 177) |
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|+ The Five Wafer Types | |+ The Five Wafer Types | ||
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|} | |} | ||
+ | |||
+ | === [[Library Data|Library Data Entries]] (Public) === | ||
+ | # [[Affine]] | ||
+ | # [[Agent]] | ||
+ | # [[Anglic]] | ||
+ | # [[Anguistus]] | ||
+ | # [[Black Ship]] | ||
+ | # [[Central Records of the Quarantine]] | ||
+ | # [[Cranch Crisis]] | ||
+ | # [[Datanet]] | ||
+ | # [[Data Repository]] | ||
+ | # [[Empress Wave]] | ||
+ | # [[Enna Lagash]] | ||
+ | # [[First Imperium]] | ||
+ | # [[Great Imperial Archive]] | ||
+ | # [[Imperial Edict 97]] | ||
+ | # [[Imperial Encyclopediopolis]] | ||
+ | # [[Imperial Moot]] | ||
+ | # [[Imperial Warrant]] | ||
+ | # [[Jonathan Bland]] | ||
+ | # [[Jumpliner]] | ||
+ | # [[Lone Star]] | ||
+ | # [[Niikiik-Luur]] | ||
+ | # [[Peter Trevor]] | ||
+ | # [[Priority Classification]] | ||
+ | # [[Proxy Vote]] | ||
+ | # [[Psionics]] | ||
+ | # [[Psychohistory]] | ||
+ | # [[Quarantine Agency]] | ||
+ | # [[Rebellion]] | ||
+ | # [[Right of Assassination]] | ||
+ | # [[Right of Fleet Control]] | ||
+ | # [[Rule of Man]] | ||
+ | # [[Sapient]] | ||
+ | # [[Secret Imperial Archives]] | ||
+ | # [[Sentient]] | ||
+ | # [[Sophont]] | ||
+ | # [[Starpass]] | ||
+ | # [[Third Imperium]] | ||
+ | # [[ThreeMinCo]] | ||
+ | # [[Traveller Gene]] | ||
+ | # [[Trellian Nerst]] | ||
+ | # [[Viewport]] | ||
+ | |||
+ | === [[Library Data|Library Data Entries]] (Automated) === | ||
+ | {{LibraryEntries}} | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== [[Sophont|Selected Sophonts]] ==== | ||
+ | # [[Aslan]] | ||
+ | # [[Essaray]] | ||
+ | # [[Humaniti]] | ||
+ | # [[Llellewyloly]] | ||
+ | # [[Plexxan]] | ||
+ | # [[Threep]] | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== [[Technology|Selected Technology]] ==== | ||
+ | # [[Angin-wafer]] | ||
+ | # [[Black Globe Generator]] | ||
+ | # [[Chimera]] | ||
+ | # [[Clone]] | ||
+ | # [[Guest]] | ||
+ | # [[Infomorph]] | ||
+ | # [[Jump Drive]] | ||
+ | # [[Natural]] | ||
+ | # [[Offspring]] | ||
+ | # [[Personality Recording]] | ||
+ | # [[Recorded Personality]] | ||
+ | # [[Relict]] | ||
+ | # [[Skillset]] | ||
+ | # [[Transpex]] | ||
+ | # [[Wafer]] | ||
+ | # [[Waferjack]] | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== [[World|Selected Worlds]] ==== | ||
+ | # [[Aadkhien (world)]] | ||
+ | # [[Anashakila (world)]] | ||
+ | # [[Ase (world)]] | ||
+ | # [[Beauniture (world)]] | ||
+ | # [[Codsen (world)]] | ||
+ | # [[Crompton (world)]] | ||
+ | # [[Dathsuts (world)]] | ||
+ | # [[Deyis II (world)]] | ||
+ | # [[Ercan (world)]] | ||
+ | # [[Fitl (world)]] | ||
+ | # [[Holex (world)]] | ||
+ | # [[Ion (world)]] | ||
+ | # [[Kanorb (world)]] | ||
+ | # [[Khusgurlu (world)]] | ||
+ | # [[Knabbib (world)]] | ||
+ | # [[Kulabisha (world)]] | ||
+ | # [[Kutubba (world)]] | ||
+ | # [[Lenashuuk (world)]] | ||
+ | # [[Lutyen (world)]] | ||
+ | # [[Maxx (world)]] | ||
+ | # [[Modesta (world)]] | ||
+ | # [[Morii (world)]] | ||
+ | # [[Othsekuu (world)]] | ||
+ | # [[Ploiqu (world)]] | ||
+ | # [[Riid Irman (world)]] | ||
+ | # [[Sakaliin (world)]] | ||
+ | # [[Shudusham (world)]] | ||
+ | # [[Sima (Da 2736) (world)]] | ||
+ | # [[Sima (Li 0315) (world)]] | ||
+ | # [[Sternbach (world)]] | ||
+ | # [[Traak (world)]] | ||
+ | # [[Vland (world)]] | ||
+ | # [[Yirsh Poy (world)]] | ||
== History & Background ([[Dossier]]) == | == History & Background ([[Dossier]]) == | ||
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=== The Three Great Threats === | === The Three Great Threats === | ||
− | Enna Lagash and the Agent discuss some of these major threats, existential dangers threatening the interstellar order. | + | [[Enna Lagash]] and the [[Jonathan Bland|Agent]] discuss some of these major threats, existential dangers threatening the interstellar order. |
* A [[Zhodani]] lord speaks with the Agent of threats having sensed them using precognitive [[psionics]]. | * A [[Zhodani]] lord speaks with the Agent of threats having sensed them using precognitive [[psionics]]. | ||
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|- | |- | ||
| 1. | | 1. | ||
− | | The Break | + | | [[The Break]] |
− | | [[Rebellion | + | | [[Rebellion]] |
− | |||
| ''The Great Break:'' An Imperial [[Second Civil War]], breaking asunder the [[Third Imperium]]. | | ''The Great Break:'' An Imperial [[Second Civil War]], breaking asunder the [[Third Imperium]]. | ||
+ | * The [[Virus]] and the [[Collapse]] are part of the final phases of the [[Second Civil War]]. | ||
|- | |- | ||
| 2. | | 2. | ||
− | | The Wave | + | | [[The Wave]] |
| [[Empress Wave]] | | [[Empress Wave]] | ||
| ''The Wave of Craziness:'' A [[psionic]] effect originating from [[coreward]] that near-lobotomizes [[sophont]]s and is particularly deleterious to [[psion]]s. It also destroys the higher thinking of many [[sophont]]s, often outright slaying them. the wave has murdered billions if not more. | | ''The Wave of Craziness:'' A [[psionic]] effect originating from [[coreward]] that near-lobotomizes [[sophont]]s and is particularly deleterious to [[psion]]s. It also destroys the higher thinking of many [[sophont]]s, often outright slaying them. the wave has murdered billions if not more. | ||
|- | |- | ||
| 3. | | 3. | ||
− | | The Black Ships | + | | [[The Black Ships]] |
− | | [[Black | + | | [[Black Ship]]s |
− | | ''The Black Ships:'' Strange [[exoform]]s that seem to inhabit deep space ominously. | + | | ''The Black Ships:'' Strange [[exoform]]s that seem to inhabit [[deep space]] ominously, often near [[star]]s and [[planetoid belt]]s. |
+ | |- | ||
+ | |} | ||
+ | |||
+ | === Credits (Primary Sources) === | ||
+ | {| class="wikitable sortable" | ||
+ | !colspan="2"| Credits (Primary Sources) | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | ! Credit | ||
+ | ! [[Author]]s & Contributors | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | | [[Author]] | ||
+ | | [[Marc Miller]] | ||
|- | |- | ||
|} | |} | ||
− | == References & Contributors (Sources) == | + | === External Link/s === |
+ | ''Commentary & Data articles:'' | ||
+ | # EXTERNAL LINK: [[TBD]] | ||
+ | |||
+ | ''Reviews:'' | ||
+ | # EXTERNAL LINK: [[TBD]] | ||
+ | |||
+ | ''Other Articles:'' | ||
+ | # EXTERNAL LINK: [[TBD]] | ||
+ | |||
+ | == References & Contributors ([[Sources]]) == | ||
{{Advanced}} | {{Advanced}} | ||
{{Sources | {{Sources | ||
|S1= Novel: [[Far Future Enterprises]] {{T5}} Edition [[Agent of the Imperium]] | |S1= Novel: [[Far Future Enterprises]] {{T5}} Edition [[Agent of the Imperium]] | ||
− | |S2= | + | |S2= Compiler: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology [[User:Maksim-Smelchak|Maksim-Smelchak]] of the [[Ministry of Science]] |
− | |||
}} | }} | ||
+ | [[Category: Technology Source]] | ||
{{MET|Novel}} | {{MET|Novel}} |
Latest revision as of 00:06, 23 January 2022
Agent of the Imperium | |||
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A Tigress class Dreadnought, probably on High Guard, perhaps over a star. | |||
Author | Marc Miller | ||
Publisher | Far Future Enterprises | ||
Version | Traveller 5th | ||
Edition | 1st | ||
Format | Novel (Hardback) (PDF) | ||
Language | English | ||
Pages | 336 | ||
Year Published | 2015 | ||
Canonical | Yes | ||
Available from | FFE, RPGnet |
Agent of the Imperium is a Traveller novel of the OTU universe telling the story of a secret agent and his efforts to serve and preserve the Third Imperium.
- It is a 2015 Novel by Marc Miller published by FFE. A new edition was published by Baen Books in 2020.
Description (Specifications)[edit]
Agents are specifically tasked with confronting existential threats to the Third Imperium.
Wafer-tech & Skillsets[edit]
Wafers are an electronic storage medium by which the personality of a sophont may be stored and preserved. A sophont with an external computer-brain interface, a jack, can insert a wafer and assume the personality stored on the wafer. Unfortunately, the body that stored the original personality cannot survive the transfer process from a living sophont mind to a stored personality. It is a lethal, mortal life-ending process. The mind lives on in the wafer as a sort of infomorph.
A skillset is similar to a wafer but far more limited. Skillsets only store learned skills, not entire sophont minds. Skillsets are very useful under limited scenarios, but long-term usage leads to brain deterioration.
Both technologies remain in use throughout the Third Imperium, but not under widespread, commonplace usage. Neither technology is permanent or long-lasting. Wafer personalities and skillset abilities rarely last for more than thirty days. Both technologies temporarily overwrite and replace part or the whole of the host mind. Some details of the wafer-mind supplementation process are still not well understood.
The Five Agent Wafer Types[edit]
There are five kinds of agent wafer: each with its own attributes and benefits: (pg. 177)
# | Role | Original Host | Remarks |
---|---|---|---|
1. | Admiral | Unknown | Imperial Navy Master Tactician |
2. | Advisor | Unknown | Expert Polymath & Jack of All Trades |
3. | Decider | Jonathan Bland | Master Political Strategist |
4. | Negotiator | Unknown | Master Crisis Negotiator |
5. | Warlord | Peter Trevor | Imperial Military Master Strategist & Tactician |
Library Data Entries (Public)[edit]
- Affine
- Agent
- Anglic
- Anguistus
- Black Ship
- Central Records of the Quarantine
- Cranch Crisis
- Datanet
- Data Repository
- Empress Wave
- Enna Lagash
- First Imperium
- Great Imperial Archive
- Imperial Edict 97
- Imperial Encyclopediopolis
- Imperial Moot
- Imperial Warrant
- Jonathan Bland
- Jumpliner
- Lone Star
- Niikiik-Luur
- Peter Trevor
- Priority Classification
- Proxy Vote
- Psionics
- Psychohistory
- Quarantine Agency
- Rebellion
- Right of Assassination
- Right of Fleet Control
- Rule of Man
- Sapient
- Secret Imperial Archives
- Sentient
- Sophont
- Starpass
- Third Imperium
- ThreeMinCo
- Traveller Gene
- Trellian Nerst
- Viewport
Library Data Entries (Automated)[edit]
Selected Sophonts[edit]
Selected Technology[edit]
- Angin-wafer
- Black Globe Generator
- Chimera
- Clone
- Guest
- Infomorph
- Jump Drive
- Natural
- Offspring
- Personality Recording
- Recorded Personality
- Relict
- Skillset
- Transpex
- Wafer
- Waferjack
Selected Worlds[edit]
- Aadkhien (world)
- Anashakila (world)
- Ase (world)
- Beauniture (world)
- Codsen (world)
- Crompton (world)
- Dathsuts (world)
- Deyis II (world)
- Ercan (world)
- Fitl (world)
- Holex (world)
- Ion (world)
- Kanorb (world)
- Khusgurlu (world)
- Knabbib (world)
- Kulabisha (world)
- Kutubba (world)
- Lenashuuk (world)
- Lutyen (world)
- Maxx (world)
- Modesta (world)
- Morii (world)
- Othsekuu (world)
- Ploiqu (world)
- Riid Irman (world)
- Sakaliin (world)
- Shudusham (world)
- Sima (Da 2736) (world)
- Sima (Li 0315) (world)
- Sternbach (world)
- Traak (world)
- Vland (world)
- Yirsh Poy (world)
History & Background (Dossier)[edit]
Agents are special secret service that replaced the early-Empire Quarantine Agency.
- The technologies of wafertech and skillsets were invented around the 400's and became an underlying part of the Third Imperium.
The Agent's Standing Orders (Revised)[edit]
Agent Standing Orders (Executive Summary)
- Rule 1. You speak with the voice of the Emperor. Brook no resistance.
- Rule 2. Millions of lives depend on your actions; you may need to spend some of them in the process.
- Rule 3. You act through your team; build it (quickly) by whatever means available.
- Rule 4. Your team is your greatest asset: use them; depend on them.
- Rule 5. You hold the ability to punish and reward; do both.
- Rule 6. Right action requires intelligence. (revised addition)
The Three Great Threats[edit]
Enna Lagash and the Agent discuss some of these major threats, existential dangers threatening the interstellar order.
# | Name | AKA | Remarks |
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1. | The Break | Rebellion | The Great Break: An Imperial Second Civil War, breaking asunder the Third Imperium.
|
2. | The Wave | Empress Wave | The Wave of Craziness: A psionic effect originating from coreward that near-lobotomizes sophonts and is particularly deleterious to psions. It also destroys the higher thinking of many sophonts, often outright slaying them. the wave has murdered billions if not more. |
3. | The Black Ships | Black Ships | The Black Ships: Strange exoforms that seem to inhabit deep space ominously, often near stars and planetoid belts. |
Credits (Primary Sources)[edit]
Credits (Primary Sources) | |
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Credit | Authors & Contributors |
Author | Marc Miller |
External Link/s[edit]
Commentary & Data articles:
- EXTERNAL LINK: TBD
Reviews:
- EXTERNAL LINK: TBD
Other Articles:
- EXTERNAL LINK: TBD
References & Contributors (Sources)[edit]
- Novel: Far Future Enterprises Traveller 5th Edition Agent of the Imperium
- Compiler: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science