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|alsosee  = [[Piracy]]
 
|alsosee  = [[Piracy]]
 
|author    = Martin Dougherty
 
|author    = Martin Dougherty
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|available = {{DTRPG|151296}}, [https://www.mongoosepublishing.com/us/referee-s-aid-8-traders-raiders-ebook.html Mongoose]
 
|canon    = Yes
 
|canon    = Yes
 
|caption  = Referee's Aid 8
 
|caption  = Referee's Aid 8
|contents  = Introduction:2, Commercial starship operation legal and otherwise:3,salvage piracy and raiding:9, Traders and Raiders in Traveller Aventures:17
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|edition  = 1st
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|format    = Book (PDF)
 
|format    = Book (PDF)
 
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|year      = 2015
 
|year      = 2015
 
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[[Mongoose Traveller: Traders & Raiders]] is a [[Mongoose Publishing]] product.
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[[Mongoose Traveller: Traders & Raiders]] is a [[Mongoose Publishing]] source book written for [[Mongoose Traveller]].
* It is a source book written for [[Mongoose Traveller]].
 
 
   
 
   
== Description ([[Specifications]]) ==
 
 
''Referee’s Aid 8: Traders & Raiders'' explores the options open to starship captains willing to operate on both sides of the law. Smuggling, blockade running, and outright [[piracy]]) offer additional revenue streams to the cash-strapped merchant, but [[career]]s are short for all but the most cunning. Smart operators vary their methods, swapping from piracy to planetary raiding or hijacking when necessary, engaging in gunrunning and smuggling where there is a profit to be made… and some will even take the occasional legitimate [[cargo]].  
 
''Referee’s Aid 8: Traders & Raiders'' explores the options open to starship captains willing to operate on both sides of the law. Smuggling, blockade running, and outright [[piracy]]) offer additional revenue streams to the cash-strapped merchant, but [[career]]s are short for all but the most cunning. Smart operators vary their methods, swapping from piracy to planetary raiding or hijacking when necessary, engaging in gunrunning and smuggling where there is a profit to be made… and some will even take the occasional legitimate [[cargo]].  
  
 
There are many ways to make money with a [[starship]], even without counting profitable activities undertaken somewhere that requires a ship to get to, but which do not involve the actual ship. Some of these activities are perfectly legal and are generally considered beneficial to [[interstellar society]]. Others… not so much.
 
There are many ways to make money with a [[starship]], even without counting profitable activities undertaken somewhere that requires a ship to get to, but which do not involve the actual ship. Some of these activities are perfectly legal and are generally considered beneficial to [[interstellar society]]. Others… not so much.
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=== Credits ===
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|S2= Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology [[User:Maksim-Smelchak|Maksim-Smelchak]] of the [[Ministry of Science]]
 
 
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Latest revision as of 19:28, 16 January 2022

Traders & Raiders
MGT-RefAid8 350.jpg
Referee's Aid 8
Author Martin Dougherty
Publisher Mongoose Publishing
Version Mongoose Traveller
Format Book (PDF)
Language English
Pages 20
Year Published 2015
Canonical Yes
Available from DriveThru RPG, Mongoose
Also See Piracy

Mongoose Traveller: Traders & Raiders is a Mongoose Publishing source book written for Mongoose Traveller.

Referee’s Aid 8: Traders & Raiders explores the options open to starship captains willing to operate on both sides of the law. Smuggling, blockade running, and outright piracy) offer additional revenue streams to the cash-strapped merchant, but careers are short for all but the most cunning. Smart operators vary their methods, swapping from piracy to planetary raiding or hijacking when necessary, engaging in gunrunning and smuggling where there is a profit to be made… and some will even take the occasional legitimate cargo.

There are many ways to make money with a starship, even without counting profitable activities undertaken somewhere that requires a ship to get to, but which do not involve the actual ship. Some of these activities are perfectly legal and are generally considered beneficial to interstellar society. Others… not so much.

Credits[edit]

Author
Martin Dougherty

Table of Contents[edit]

Mongoose Traveller:
Traders & Raiders
Section Page/s
Introduction 2
Commercial Starship operation legal and otherwise 3
Salvage, piracy, and raiding 9
Traders and Raiders in Traveller Adventures 17

Library Data Entries (Public)[edit]

  1. Wreck

Library Data Entries (Automated)[edit]

Library data entries
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