Dossier

A Dossier is a collection of documents or data about a particular person, event, subject, or other topic.

• They are typically stored in electronic formats. However, in lower tech systems, they may be retained on paper, stone tablets, or other media.

Description (Specifications)

While dossiers typically apply to personnel and events in a conventional sense, within the AAB Library Data files, they are typically used to describe history or background relating to sophontic matters, which is to say the knowledge relating to technologically sophisticated species, rather than astronomical, physical, or other scientific data related to relatively unchanging facts. Hard data is filed under Specifications.

Dossiers often describe the physical possessions of an individual, the details and layout of a facility, or the sophontilogical story of a world and its inhabitants. On vehicles and ships, the dossier describes the history and background of a design, its roles, its origin, who made it, why, and the like.

Detailed Dossier Breakdown

AAB Library Data Article Type

Dossier Sections

Article Type	Remarks
Goods	The dossier section of this kind of file details: History and usage of the good. Technological development of the good by Technological Epoch.
Periodical	The dossier section of this kind of file details: TBD
Personage (VIP)	The dossier section of this kind of file details: History and background of the VIP and details of their recent actions and how they may be of interest. A rough timeline of the VIP's life.
Polity	The dossier section of this kind of file details: History and background of the polity with details about the polities capabilities such as its commercial reach, military, technology, etc.
Publication	The dossier section of this kind of file details: TBD
Sector	The dossier section of this kind of file details: TBD
Ship	The dossier section of this kind of file details: Details about the research and development of the ship, which polities use it, how it is operationally used, and related details.
Sophont	The dossier section of this kind of file details: TBD
Subsector	The dossier section of this kind of file details: TBD

History & Background (Dossier)

The AAB adopted the dossier system early in the time of the Vilani Imperium, and all of its succeeding empires have kept the system. It has a relatively standard format although many administrators over the millennia have modified or otherwise edited the files and databases, leaving a not perfectly standard set of data.

The Library Data used on Ship’s Computers at and starport libraries may diverge from the data collections at AAB Data Repository installations.

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 Far Future Enterprises 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