Mongoose Traveller: Counterweights and Measures

Counterweights and Measures
Borderland
Author		Martin Dougherty
Publisher		Mongoose Publishing
Version		Mongoose Traveller
Format		PDF
Language		English
Pages		38
Year Published		2015
Canonical		Yes
Available from		DriveThru RPG, Mongoose

Counterweights and Measures is an adventure set in the Borderland sector of the Trojan Reach.

The Florian-Aslan Trade Consortium (FATC) has grown so powerful that it will come to dominate the Borderland unless countermeasures are taken. Direct action is impossible, but if some of the local powers can put aside their differences and work together then perhaps they can create a counterweight to the FATC expansion. The Travellers are recruited to act as go-betweens in this endeavour; simple messengers with a legitimate remit. But FATC plays dirty, and is not above shooting the messenger.

The conflict presented in this adventure is not black-and-white, good-vs-bad. The actions of the opposition (the Florian-Aslan trade Consortium, or FATC) make sense from their perspective, and there are many good and worthy people among the FATC who will see those who try to derail their legitimate business expansion as nothing more than terrorists. Indeed, it may be that the FATC expansion is a good thing for the region – these are troubled times in the Borderlands, and greater unity might be the decisive factor in surviving the next decades.

While the adventure is self-contained and has all the information a referee needs to run it, Borderland and Alien Module 1: Aslan may both be useful in expanding a campaign beyond these pages.

Credits

Author

Martin Dougherty

Editor

Matthew Sprange

Layout

Will Chapman, Amy Perrett

Table of Contents

Mongoose Traveller: Counterweights and Measures

Section	Page
Introduction	2
Overview	3
Background Data	5
Iilgan: Juliette and Thomas	8
Arunisiir: Denzal	15
Heaven: Klaris	21
Tanith: Gavin	29
The Summit: Iilgan	36

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.

• Martin Dougherty. Counterweights and Measures (Mongoose Publishing, 2015), 1.