Imperiallines 7 (magazine)

Imperiallines
Author		Andrea Vallance, Donald McKinney, Greg Lee, Jim Kundert, Robert Eaglestone
Publisher		Far Future Enterprises
Version		Traveller 5th
Format		PDF
Language		English
Year Published		2015
Canonical		Yes
Available from		External Link: Drivethru RPG

Imperiallines 7 (magazine) features articles about Nobility in the Third Imperium, creating noble characters, an updated essay on planetary governments, and tables for creating Amindii words.

Description (Specifications)

This issue addresses nobles in Traveller5 – but as usual, learning about one portion of the Traveller system helps the player enjoy Traveller as a whole. For example, both Marc’s article on planetary governments and Jim’s article on nobles state that the concept of a feudal interstellar state has been a fundamental idea of Traveller from the start.

This issue also walks through the creation of two nobles using Traveller5 rules. Actually, it only generates one character, but those rolls are re-used (well, 95% reused) to generate a second character as well. The result is two casual encounters for the price of one character generation: an Amindii, and a human, both barons on Regina.

Two short articles in this issue were written by Marc Miller: Planetary Governments, updated with two more codes for Traveller5, and the Word Generation article, which is almost identical to the article written up in MegaTraveller. It is inserted here to explain the word generation table in this issue, newly minted for making Amindii words.

Meta-history & Background

Imperiallines 7 gives the referee information on nobles and planetary governments. It also builds on the previous issue by generating an Amindii character and providing Amindii word generation tables.

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Imperiallines magazine started its existence as a fanzine led by Mark Gelinas, became an insert mini-zine under GDW, and later became the FFE house periodical for Traveller 5. It is named after Imperiallines, LIC an interstellar shipping corporation serving worlds off of the main trade routes of the Spinward Marches. Imperiallines and Imperial Lines can be easily confused.

1. Imperiallines 1 (fanzine)
2. Imperiallines 2 (fanzine)
3. Imperiallines 3 (fanzine)
4. Imperiallines 1 (magazine) (Insert)
5. Imperiallines 2 (magazine) (Insert)
6. Imperiallines 3 (magazine) (Unpublished insert)
7. Imperiallines 4 (magazine) (Unpublished insert)
8. Imperiallines 5 (magazine) (Unpublished draft)
9. Imperiallines 6 (magazine)
10. Imperiallines 7 (magazine)
11. Imperiallines 8 (magazine) (..forthcoming in 2018 CE)

Credits (Primary Sources)

Marc Miller, Publisher

Tim Osbourne, Artist

Ian Stead, Artist

Andrew Boulton, Artist

Liz Danforth, Artist

Andrea Vallance, Contributor

Donald McKinney, Contributor

Greg Lee, Contributor

Jim Kundert, Contributor

Rob Eaglestone, Contributor and Editor

Table of Contents

In This Issue:

pg.1 ... Welcome to Imperiallines!

pg.2 ... Planetary Governments for Traveller

pg.4 ... Nobility in the Third Imperium

pg.8 ... Casual Encounter: Baron Akrin Masankadi si-Tida*ii

pg.11... Casual Encounter: Baron Lakash Zaasdi

pg.13... Chargen Walkthru: A Minor Noble 1 (Lakash)

pg.16... Chargen Walkthru: A Minor Noble 2 (Akrin)

pg.20... Creating Amindii Words

pg.22... Traveller News Service Bulletins

pg.24... Tech Tools: travellermap.com Poster Maker

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 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