Trillion Credit Squadron

Trillion Credit Squadron
Classic Traveller Adventure 5
Author		John Harshman, Marc Miller
Publisher		Game Designers Workshop
Version		Classic Traveller
Edition		1st
Format		Book (Digest)
Language		English
Pages		48
Year Published		1981
Canonical		Yes
Available from		RPGNow
Product No. 319
Table of Contents
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Trillion Credit Squadron is an early Classic Traveller adventure.

Description (Specifications)

Build giant starship fleets and fight monumental naval battles with Trillion Credit Squadrons. This adventure contains complete instructions for the creation of naval forces within restricted budgets, with situations for several players or just one.

• Contents include Billion Credit Squadron, Trillion Credit Squadron, Tournament rules, and special campaign rules and maps.
• Use of this adventure requires Traveller Book 5, High Guard.
• As a potential location for the adventure, the book introduces the Islands Clusters Campaign, set in sparse sectors within an arm of the Great Rift, and provides history of the colonisation and development of these sub sectors.

Table of Contents

Introduction	5
Designing a Squadron	8
Rules and Rulings	12
Squadron Concepts	17
Paperwork	18
Billion Credit Squadron	28
Trillion Credit Squadron	29
Tournament Trillion Credit Squadron	30
Campaign Rules	31
The Islands Clusters Campaign	40
New Islands Subsector	46
Old Islands Subsector	47

Meta-history & Background (Dossier)

Trillion Credit Squadron was used as a test case for artificial intelligence researcher Douglas Lenat's machine learning system Eurisko.

• Lenat programmed the TCS tournament rules into Eurisko, and the system designed a fleet of large, stationary, defenseless, and heavily armed ships. This fleet then won the 1981 TCS national championship tournament at the Origins '81 convention. GDW changed the rules for the following tournament, but Eurisko adapted to the changes and its fleet won the championship again. GDW threatened to cancel the tournament if a Eurisko-designed fleet entered again, and Lenat declined to do so, accepting the title "Grand Admiral" as consolation. Lenat's 1981 fleet design (including 75 Eurisko class Gunships) was printed in JTAS issue #10.

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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)

Design

John Harshman and Marc Miller

Useful Suggestions

John Astell, Frank Chadwick, and Stefan Jones

Graphics

Chris Purcell

References & Contributions (Sources)

This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Far Future Enterprises or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science