Merchant Prince

A Merchant Prince is a highly successful merchant, a sophont of accomplishment and means.

• Most are considered to possess the fabled Traveller Gene, a mark of guts and prestige.
• Most merchant princes are captains of their own vessel, a Merchant Vessel.
• It is both a title of prestige and a possibly high profit vocation.
• See also Merchant Service.

Description (Specifications)

Merchant Princes are first and foremost skilled traders and spacemen, able to traverse the starways and mainworlds of Charted Space selling high and buying low. They can manage starcraft operations, handle crews, balance books & bureaucrats, and haggle prices with shopkeepers. They are capable, effective beings, and not always gentlesophonts.

History & Background (Dossier)

Many to most Merchant Princes have nothing to do with the Imperial Nobility or the nobility of any other polity or world.

References & Contributors (Sources)

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• Marc Miller. Merchant Prince (Game Designers Workshop, 1985), TBD.
• Steve Daniels, Jim McLean, Christopher Thrash. Far Trader (Steve Jackson Games, 1999), TBD.
• Bryan Steele. Merchant Prince (Mongoose Publishing, 2010), TBD.
• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science