William Richards

William Richards is a Traveller author, contributor, and fan.

Description (Biography)

Mr. Richards (AKA Willbo) started playing Traveller in 1981. In 1985 He ran a Trillion Credit Squadron game for his friends and part way through realized he had material for an area outside of Known Space. This resulted in his collating the data from the game several years later, which he then turned into fanzine/supplements which he gave to his friends that had participated in the game. He later joined the U.S. Army and is veteran of operation Desert Storm/the First Gulf War.

He operates the Website Stellar Imperia where his latest blog entries and attempts at producing Traveller fan material can be seen and downloaded.

In addition to his Traveller escapades, Mr. Richards is a published academic holding a Master's Degree in Applied Physics and Computer Science. During a long stint as a military contractor he worked heavily with and ran military simulations and some simulators, He even obtained the title of Battle Lab Manager.

External Link/s

This gentlesophont has the following external links available:

• EXTERNAL LINK: Stellar Imperia

Library Data Entries (Public)

1. TBD

Image Repository

No information yet available.

History & Background (Dossier)

This gentlesophont has been involved with Traveller in the following ways:

• Author
• Artist

Traveller RPG Wiki Participation

Author & Contributor:

• Brilliant Gem class Cruise Liner
• Lance Marcus class Scout
• Lomodo IVA (world)
  • Sophonts: Osp, Byl, Irf
  • Native Life: Angiosh, Rudstot, Culwap, Nopspire and Efut.
• Mal'Gnar El (world)
• Orbital Zones for stars
• Pax Rulin (system)
• Sapphire Moon class Moduleship
• Ship's Troop
• Alternate Orbital Placement

Bibliography-Ludography (Published Products)

This gentlesophont has authored, contributed, playtested, or otherwise participated in the publication of the following products:

Publications where this person is mentioned in the credits
Admiral's Guide to the Heron Subsector Admiral’s Guide to the Kentron Subsector Fighting Ships of the First Kentron War The Talani Sector

Other Published Works

• Chapter 22 'GIS Data for Combat Modeling' of: 'Engineering Principles of Combat Modeling and Distributed Simulation'

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 Mongoose Publishing 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