Phoenix Project

The Phoenix Project is a reported plot by Solomani guerrillas on Terra to rise and destroy Imperial forces occupying Terra.

Description (Specifications)

The project was said to have consisted of two distinct parts:

1. Prepositioned caches of military goods to supply the rising and...
2. A continuing program for the training of guerrillas.

The caches were concealed in many different places on Terra, in areas calculated to preclude accidental discovery over the years. Each cache contained large quantities of munitions, weapons, vehicles, and medical supplies, all of varying technological levels so as to be of use regardless of the technical knowledge of the users. Each cache was hidden with its location entrusted to a single local family. These families were to form the core of the guerrilla forces when the rising was to take place.

A massive Imperial counter-guerrilla effort in 1040 to 1045 was directed at the discovery and destruction of the caches and the arrest of the families entrusted with their secrets.

History & Background (Dossier)

Imperial intelligence reported penetration of the project command in 1045, with subsequent compromise of its basic plans and dismantling of its structure.

The Phoenix Project was supposedly born in the final years of the Solomani Rim War (990 to 1002) as Solomani leaders saw the possibility of their defeat and the loss of the homeworld to the invading Imperials.

Persistent rumors of two additional aspects of the project:

• Lambda (a codeword to trigger the rising) and...
• Omega (the reinforcement of the uprising by off-world Solomani)

...have been dismissed as baseless by Imperial officials.

Many historians believe that the extent of the plot was greatly exaggerated by Imperial authorities, holding that it was little more than an extreme example of wishful thinking on the part of the Solomani leadership. At any rate, the Phoenix Project no longer threatens the security of the Imperium, if indeed it ever did.

Some believe that the Solomani Rimward Expedition may be related to this project.

References & Contributors (Sources)

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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.

• John Harshman, Marc Miller, Loren Wiseman. Library Data (N-Z) (Game Designers Workshop, 1982), 12.
• Marc Miller. Imperial Encyclopedia (Game Designers Workshop, 1987), 34.
• Martin Dougherty. Solomani Front (Mongoose Publishing, 2021), 103.
• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science