User:Maksim-Smelchak

Maksim-Smelchak (Author) Title

• Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science

Please see Imperial Nobility and Imperial Bureaucracy for more information.

Maksim-Smelchak (Author) Biography

Maksim-Smelchak is a long-time Traveller player, fan, and playtester. Maksim very much enjoys the Traveller universe and has a large collection of 6mm sci-fi game miniatures including a number of Traveller forces, which he uses to play a variety of sci-fi mini games including Dirtside II.

While Maksim served in the US Air Force, an old friend gave him a cache of LBB's (Little Black Books). Maksim spent many a C-130 and C-5 transport plane ride pouring through LBB's in-between missions. Maksim currently lives in Northern California in the United States, and is a frequent enjoyer of all kinds of gaming goodness: RPG's (role-playing games), board games, miniature games, etc.

In the past, Maksim has contributed to a variety of gaming products as an author, playtester, magazine article writer, proofreader, illustrator, product reviewer, small press publisher, and in a variety of other roles.

He has previously contributed material to the Traveller RPG Wiki including creating new material, spellchecking, proofreading, Wiki code corrections, word-smithing, and other additions.

Maksim-Smelchak (Author) 2015 Completed Goals

Some of Maksim's current goals in 2015 were:

January 2015

• Add (create), edit, and update all of the articles about sophonts. DONE! (January 2015)
• Work on the Major Race pages. DONE! (January 2015)
• Add the "High Tortuga" materials. DONE! (January 2015)
• Clean up some of the "Ludography" pages. DONE! (January 2015)
• Expand the Gypsy Knights Games pages. DONE! (January 2015)
• Create the John Watts author page. DONE! (January 2015)
• Review and re-structure tons of Darkstar's entries. DONE! (January 2015)
• Crete pages for all Zhodani foodstuff animals. DONE! (January 2015)
  • Noql DONE! (January 2015)
  • Kredl DONE! (January 2015)
  • Arrstia DONE! (January 2015)

February 2015

• Catalogue Aslan clans. DONE! (February 2015)
• Catalogue Tlaukhu and build tables for it. DONE! (February 2015)
• Create Edafosax page. DONE! (February 2015)
• Review my copy of Classic Traveller Adventure 3: Twilight's Peak (book) for missing material. DONE! (February 2015)
• Create Fulacinian Trapper creature entry. DONE! (February 2015)
• Create Fulacinian Snow Cat creature entry. DONE! (February 2015)
• Update Fulacin (world) page. DONE! (February 2015)
• Build out table for Traveller eras/milieus/backgrounds. DONE! (February 2015)
• Build out table for Traveller editions. DONE! (February 2015)
• Update ludography master page. DONE! (February 2015)

March 2015

• Build out tables for the life cycle of the Daghadasi. DONE! (March 2015)
• build out Animal classification entries. DONE! (March 2015)
• Write/create the Reticulan Parasite creature page. DONE! (March 2015)
• Create table for Sector names. DONE! (March 2015)
• Create Gulperwhale creature page. DONE! (March 2015)
• Build life cycle tables for the Oegongong. DONE! (March 2015)

April 2015

• None yet.

Maksim-Smelchak (Author) 2015 Uncompleted Goals

• Add (create), edit, and update many articles about alien lifeforms creatures.
• Work on the Government pages.
• Clean up and word-smith the "High Tortuga" materials.
• Eventually work my way into the Megacorporations pages.
• Eventually work my way into the Corporations pages.
• Finish the GKG pages. Add cover images to all of them.
• Add Erin's planets article.
• Add Robject's creatures.
• E-mail FreeTraveller's authors for permission to port over their creatures.
• Contact Jim and recruit him to the cause.
• Finish reviewing Don's master sophont list.
• Organize all sector pages with headers, titles, etc.
• Write the BITS folks to get permission to share more of their material. Andy Lilly
• Create creature entries for other members of Daghadasi ecosystem.
• Continue to develop templates for creatures and sophonts.