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An Old Spacer's Tale is a legend, myth, or generally good story told by spacers, the sophonts who spend so much of their lives in space.

There are countless tales of mysteries, anomalies, and numerous matters of interest told across Charted Space.

Such myths and tales can be truthful, fictional, or somewhere in-between.

They are primarily told for entertainment purposes, a way of passing the long hours spent in the lonely voids between worlds.

Spacers are any sophont with the Traveller Gene who have ventured off planet.

Their ranks include:

Every populated world and system is full of stories from those of the local NILs to the first colonists to the gentlesophonts still around today. And some of the locals may be belters or other kinds of spacers found in a planetoid belt outpost or highport.

Ply them with a few drinks, a meal, some gifts, or even an outright bribe and who knows what information or chitchat they might share...

Rumored Tales:

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Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science

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 An [[Old Spacer's Tale]] is a legend, myth, or generally good story told by [[spacer]]s, the [[sophont]]s who spend so much of their lives in [[space]].
+* There are countless tales of mysteries, [[anomalies]], and numerous matters of interest told across [[Charted Space]].
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