Matter Transporter

The Matter Transporter is a device that can materialize matter across distances without needed a starship to get to destination.

• No workable extant examples exist in Charted Space although functioning artifacts are rumored to exist.
• Some prototypes have appeared in newscasts, but all appear to have major drawbacks and function with no reported reliability.
• The Zhodani can already achieve some functions of this projected machine with their psionic technology.

Description (Specifications)

These devices will revolutionize and transform the interstellar economy when they are perfected.

• Most such, hypothetical devices are considered to transform physical matter into an energy form for transmission and then restore that coded energy back to physical form upon destination.
• The first successes with matter transport as energy are anticipated to occur at technology level-16, but the transport results in considerable randomization of molecular patterns and is thus limited to raw materials only.
• Some project that matter transport using matter transmutation appears at tech level 17, but it is limited to solely inanimate objects.
• Some project that practical matter transport for life forms (using portal/circumvention techniques) does not occur until tech level 18.

History & Background (Dossier)

Some theories advocate the idea that matter transport implies energy to matter creation. Thus at TL-16 any raw material that can be transported can also be created from energy. This does not apply for circumvention.

References & Contributors (Sources)

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• Donald P. Rapp. Merchants & Merchandise (Paranoia Press, 1981), 22.
• Marc Miller. Referee's Companion (Game Designers Workshop, 1988), TBD.
• Marc Miller. T5 Core Rules (Far Future Enterprises, 2013), TBD.
• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science