GURPS Traveller: Far Trader

Far Trader
Profit and pitfalls among the stars
Author		Steve Daniels, Jim McLean, Christopher Thrash
Publisher		Steve Jackson Games
Version		GURPS Traveller
Edition		1st
Format		Book (Softback) (PDF)
Language		English
Pages		144
Year Published		1999
Canonical		Yes
Available from		FFE
Also See		Far Trader
ISBN 1-55634-373-6 Stock # 6066

GURPS Traveller: Far Trader is a Steve Jackson Games product.

• It is a mercantile source book designed for GURPS Traveller.

Description (Specifications)

The Universe is Your Market

There’s a fortune to be made among the stars - for the intrepid merchant with business savvy, a suspicious mind, and more than a little luck.

Be prepared to meet some of the worst characters in the universe - just pray they’re not your business partners! And remember, “cutthroat competition” isn’t just a colorful catch phrase…

the "independent trader" campaign is one of the most popular among Traveller players. Far Trader is the complete support volume for a mercantile campaign. you can:

• Develop sector-wide trade routes, following the tides of commerce on an interplanetary scale.
• Start your own character-run business, raise capital, and finance your money-making ventures.
• Make contacts, find niche markets, and exploit opportunities the big corporations miss.
• Learn what it takes to run a successful commercial starship.
• Expand your campaign with 15 new character templates.
• Run entire mercantile campaigns, including Free Traders, smugglers, and pirates.

So stock your starship, grab your gun, and take to the stars … fortunes don’t come easy!

Table of Contents

GURPS Traveller: Far Trader
Introduction	Page 4
1. The Big Picture	Page 5
2. The Interstellar Economy	Page 10
3. High Finance	Page 41
4. Ships and Shipping	Page 53
5. Characters	Page 79
6. Campaigns and Adventures	Page 104
7. District 268: Trading on the Edge of the Imperium	Page 125
Appendices	Page 136
Index	Page 143

Library Data Entries (Public)

1. Bank Draft
2. Bilateral Trade Number (BTN)
3. Black Market
4. Campaign
5. Cargo Cult
6. Cash
7. Charter
8. Fifth Frontier War
9. Frontier World
10. Interstellar Banking
11. Interstellar Stock Market
12. Jumpspace
13. LASH
14. Letter of Cradit
15. Merchant
16. Merchant Prince
17. Passenger
18. PyRoute
19. Ship's Articles
20. Ship's Logbook
21. Ship's Registry
22. Starport
23. Trade Route
24. Tradewar
25. World Trade Number (WTN)

Selected Astrography

1. Spinward Marches Sector
   1. Cronor Subsector
   2. Jewell Subsector
   3. Regina Subsector
   4. Aramis Subsector
   5. Querion Subsector
   6. Vilis Subsector
   7. Lanth Subsector
   8. Rhylanor Subsector
   9. Darrian Subsector
   10. Sword Worlds Subsector
   11. Lunion Subsector
   12. Mora Subsector
   13. Five Sisters Subsector
   14. District 268 Subsector
   15. Glisten Subsector
   16. Trin's Veil Subsector

Selected Corporations

Megacorporations:

1. Delgado Trading
2. GSbAG
3. General Products
4. Hortalez et Cie
5. Instellarms
6. LSP
7. Makhidkarun
8. Naasirka
9. Sharurshid
10. Sternmetal
11. SuSAG
12. Tukera Lines
13. Zirunkariish

Corporations:

1. Agarwal Brokerage
2. Akerut
3. Argyle Factors
4. Faravashi Traders
5. Imperiallines
6. Irkirkhaaamn Corp
7. Oberlindes Lines
8. Seven Suns Shipping
9. Vemene

Selected Equipment

1. Survival Kit
2. Pocket Pack
3. Sr5/8 class Survival Rifle
4. Wrist Computer
5. Survival Watch

Selected Form/s & Terms

Forms:

1. TBD

Terms:

1. Control Rating (CR)
2. TBD
3. TBD
4. TBD
5. TBD

Selected Ship Equipment / Components

1. Collapsible Tank
2. Drop Tank
3. External Cradle
4. Life Support Unit
5. RVO Program
6. Ship Meeting Room (Hall, Bar, or Conference Room)
7. Ship's Locker
8. Ship Stage
9. Ship Swimming Pool
10. Ship Theater
11. Smallcraft Bridge Add-On

Selected Organizations

1. Colonial Navy
2. Imperial Customs Service
3. Imperial Ministry of Justice (MoJ)
4. Imperial Naval Intelligence (IMI)
5. Imperial Navy
6. Imperial Security Service
7. Planetary Navy
8. Starport Authority
9. TAS

Selected Polities

Major Race Suprapolities:

1. Third Imperium
2. Zhodani Consulate

Minor Race Polities:

1. Border Worlds
2. Darrian Confederation
3. Federation of Arden
4. Garoo Republic AKA Republic of Garoo
5. Mewey Empire
6. Sword Worlds Confederation
7. Trexalon Technical Consortium

Selected Ships

Types & Classes:

1. Akkigish class Subsidized Merchant
2. Empress Marava class Far Trader
3. Grand Princess Iphegenia class Luxury Liner
4. Hercules class Heavy Merchant
5. Imperialines Frontier Transport
6. Oberlindes Cargo Liner
7. Stellar class Subsidized Liner
8. Tukera Freighter
9. Tukera Long-Liner

Supraclasses:

1. Bulk Freighter
2. Commerce Raider
3. Commercial Ship
4. Corsair Vessel
5. Customs Vessel
6. Far Trader
7. Free Trader
8. Freight Liner
9. Lighter-Aboard-Ship Tender (LASH Tender)
10. Liner
11. Passenger Liner
12. Privateer
13. Subsidized Liner
14. Trade Vessel (Merchant Vessel)
15. Trader
16. Tramp
17. Tramp Merchant

Selected Smallcraft

Smallcraft:

1. Cargo Shuttle
2. Short-Duration Lifeboat

Bigcraft:

1. Lighter
   1. Cargo Lighter
   2. General-Purpose Lighter
   3. Oiler
2. Tug

Selected Vehicles

1. Exoskeleton
   1. Cargo Exoskeleton
2. Forklift
   1. Grav Forklift
   2. Wheeled Forklift
3. Workpod
4. Grav Lifter
5. Container Rack
6. TBD
7. TBD
8. TBD
9. TBD
10. TBD
11. TBD

Selected Vocations

Vocations:

1. Advertiser
2. Arms Dealer
3. Attorney
4. Belter
5. Black Marketeer
6. Broker
7. Bounty Hunter
8. Bureaucrat
9. Cargomaster
10. Chandler
11. Computer Technician
12. Confidence Man
13. Corporate Lawyer
14. Corsair
15. Courier
16. Diplomat
17. Engineer
18. Entertainer
19. Entrepreneur
20. Financier
21. Fixer
22. Free Trader
23. Gadgeteer
24. Ihatei
25. Law Enforcer
26. Manager
27. Mechanic
28. Medical Doctor
29. Medical Technician
30. Merchant
31. Merchant Prince
32. Mercenary
33. Pirate
34. Privateer
35. Promotional Agent
36. Purser
37. Remittance Man
38. Rogue
39. Shipmaster
40. Shipper's Agent
41. Skip Tracer
42. Smuggler
43. Steward
44. Trader
45. Tramp Merchant
46. Undercover Agent

Meta-history & Background (Dossier)

GURPS Traveller: Far Trader complements the GURPS Traveller volumes on Starports and Starships.

• It is also fully compatible with GURPS Space, and a useful supplement for any science fiction campaign.

PyRoute Interstellar Economic Calculations

As part of the wiki's ongoing Astrography projects, rules from this publication were used by the Traveller PyRoute program, using the sector data from Traveller Map and the economics rules from GURPS Traveller: Far Trader, GURPS Traveller: Starports, GURPS Traveller: Ground Forces, and Trillion Credit Squadron.

• Please see Category:Sectors with sector economic data for more information.

Credits (Primary Sources)

Credits (Primary Sources)
Credit	Authors & Contributors
Author	Steve Daniels, Jim McLean & Christopher Thrash
Editor	Sean M. Punch
Cover	Douglas Shuler
Illustrations	Jesse DeGraff, Fredd Gorham, Tom Peters, and Glenn Grant

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