Alternate Traveller Universe

An ATU or Alternate Traveller Universe is a fan-created Traveller background or a fan-modified background using existing setting elements.

• Many have become rich, very well developed settings ("universes") that have been published and enjoyed by other fans.

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Please see the following AAB Library Data for more information:
Setting:

• ATU
• IMTU
• Lorenverse
• OTU

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Description (Specifications)

One of the joys of having a tool kit like Traveller is that it is endlessly modifiable, which is exactly what fans do.

• Many of the OTU concepts and leitwortstil appear throughout Traveller works.

Thematic Concepts

At core, Traveller is classic science fiction. These are the surface ideas, the easily reader-apparent concepts:

• Science Fiction Themes
  • Apocalyptic Themes
    • Final War
    • Long Night
    • Virus
    • Triple Threat
      • Black Ships
      • Great Break
      • Great Wave
  • Futurology
    • Exobiology
    • Planetology
    • Psionics
    • Sophontology
  • Interstellar Relations
    • Interstellar Peace
    • Interstellar War
  • Technophilia
    • Jump Drive
    • Starships
    • Technology Level
    • UWP

Thematic Leitwortstil

Leitwortstil are repeated phrases, words, and ideas that appear and reappear in this Traveller literary works:

• Aliens
• Antimatter
• Dukes
• Feudal Confederation
• FTL / NAFAL
• Galactic Encyclopedia
• Gravimetrics AKA Antigravity
• Intergalactic Scouts / Space Rangers
• Jump Drive
• Meson Technology
• NIL's
• Planetology
• Sophonts & Sophontology
• Spinal Mount
• Technology & Technology Levels
• Travel Passage
• Travel Zones
• Universal Codes

History & Background (Dossier)

There are hundreds, perhaps thousands of Alternate Traveller Universes.

Imperium Eternal

Perhaps the best known ATU is the Imperium Eternal or Lorenverse, a setting in which the Third Imperium does not fall. In this setting there is no Second Civil War or Rebellion.

• The storyline in-between the Imperium Eternal and the Galaxiad is unclear.
• The Imperium Eternal or Lorenverse is the primary setting of GURPS Traveller.

Selected ATU's

These are a selected few of the many ATU's that exist, mostly published ones:

1. The Bastards of Foreven DSL Ironworks
2. Clement Sector setting from Gypsy Knights Games
3. Cthonian Stars
4. Distant Fringe
5. Infinitys Shore
6. Notoriousverse
7. Outer Veil
8. Permatic Imperium
9. Reign of Discordia
10. These Stars Are Ours!
11. Where The Stars End

References & Contributors (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.

• EXTERNAL LINK: Freelance Trav: A Tribute to the Burgess Shale Period of Traveller by Ken Pick
• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science