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[[Travelling in Charted Space]]: In a sector-spanning [[civilization]] with little standardization and decentralized [[governance]], travelling the [[star]]s can be a risky proposition. The individual [[government]] of any [[world]] may greatly differ in [[culture]] and [[technology]] from its neighbor. Not every [[world]] that should rate an [[amber zone]] or [[red zone]] warning gets one in time. Even the quickest of messages take a week of travel.  Yet, some individuals still possess a wanderlust and sense of adventure that compels them to seek the [[star]]s. They have the [[Traveller Gene]]. 

=== Library Data Referral Tree ===
Please refer to the following [[AAB]] [[Library Data]] for more information: <br>
* Interstellar Travel ([[Travelling in Charted Space]])
** [[First Meal]]
** [[Jump Dimming]] 
** [[Signal-GK]]
** [[Starpass]]
** [[Travel Passage]]
*** [[Low Passage]]
**** [[Low Lottery]]
*** [[Middle Passage]]
*** [[High Passage]]
*** [[Working Passage]]
** [[Travel Zone]]s
*** [[Charted Space]]
**** [[Amber Zone]]
**** [[Green Zone]]
**** [[Interdiction]]
**** [[Red Zone]]
*** [[Uncharted Space]]
**** [[Black Zone]]
**** [[Wildspace]]
** [[Traveller Gene]] 
** [[Travelling Societies]]
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* [[Interstellar Colonization]]
** [[Colony Ship]]
*** [[Colonial Jumpship]]
*** [[Generation Ship]]
*** [[Planetoid Ship]]
*** [[Sleeper Ship]]
*** [[Worldship]]
** [[Habitable Zone]] (Goldilocks Zone)
** [[Planetary Engineering]] ([[Terraforming]])
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* [[Interstellar Exploration]] 
** [[Astrography]]
** [[Explorer Service]]
** [[Imperial Interstellar Scout Service]]
** [[Planetology]]
** [[Survey Ship]] 
** [[UWP]]
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* [[Interstellar Commerce]]
** [[Merchant Service]]
** Trading Starship Types ([[Merchant]]s - [[Civilian Starship Types]])
*** Commercial Merchants (business groups)
**** [[Jump Carrier]]
***** [[Jump Rider]]s
**** [[Jumpliner]]s (Passenger travel)
***** Longliners
***** Luxury Liners
***** Merchant Liners
***** Starliners
*** Private Merchants (Individual captain-owners)
**** [[Far Trader]]s (J-2+)
**** [[Fat Trader]]s (Enhanced cargo capacity)
**** [[Free Trader]]s (J-1)
**** [[Frontier Trader]]s (Enhanced survivability)
**** Safari Ships (specialized tourism)
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* [[Facility|Spacecraft Facilities]]
** [[Extrality]]
** [[Highport]]
** [[Lowport]]
** [[Spaceport]]
** [[Starport]]
** [[Starport Authority]]
** [[Travellers' Aid Society]]
 
== Description ==
'''Interstellar Travel:''' [[World]]s orbiting different [[star]]s are reached by interstellar travel, which makes use of the [[jump drive]]. Once a [[starship]] moves to a safe distance from a world, it may activate its [[jump drive]]. Jump drives are rated from 1 to 6: the number of [[parsec]]s which can be traveled in roughly one week’s time. Actually, making any jump takes about one week, regardless of the distance traveled. Transit time to 100 diameters from a [[Planetary Size|Size 8]] world takes five hours at one [[Gravity]] or G of acceleration. {{Page cite|name= Starships|page=4}}

[[Civilian Ship|Commercial starships]] usually make two jumps per month. They spend one week in [[Jumpspace|jump]], followed by one week in the [[star system]], traveling from the jump point to the local [[world]], refueling, marketing cargo, finding passengers, leaving the [[starport]], and proceeding to a jump point again. The week in the [[system]] usually provides some time for crew recreation and wandering around the [[planet]]. {{Page cite|name= Starships|page=4}}

[[Civilian Ship|Non-commercial ships]] usually follow the same schedule of one week in [[Jumpspace|jump]] and one week in a [[system]]. If haste is called for, a [[ship]] may refuel at a [[gas giant]] immediately, and re-jump right away. This allows the [[ship]] to make one jump per week, but makes no provision for cargo, passengers, or local stops. Interstellar travel is priced on the basis of accommodations; prices cover a trip from [[starport]] to [[starport]], encompassing one jump, regardless of length. {{Page cite|name= Starships|page=4}}

There are four primary types of passage:
# [[High Passage]]
# [[Middle Passage]]
# [[Working Passage]]
# [[Low Passage]]

=== Travel Formulae ===
'''Travelling in Charted Space:''' The travel formulae and diagram used by the [[Imperial Navy]] and [[Scout Service]] show a typical interplanetary journey, and equations which can determine the time required (if distance and acceleration are known), acceleration required (if distance and time are known), and distance traveled (if time and acceleration are known]. All of the formulae use the MKS (meters, kilograms, seconds) unit system, and assume that the [[ship]] is undertaking a journey from rest, that it accelerates continuously to the midpoint of the trip, and then decelerates to rest again. {{Page cite|name= Starships|page=4}}
 
[[File: Trav-Travel-Formulas.jpg|800px]]

=== Interstellar Travel Methods ===
Some of the other ways to travel the [[star]]s include:  
:{| class="wikitable sortable" 
|+ Interstellar Travel
! Method
! Type
! Conveyance
! Speed
! Remarks
|- valign="top"
| [[Starpass]]
| Travel Voucher
| [[Starship]]
| Typically J-1 to J-2
| A [[Starpass]] is a widely accepted prepaid travel voucher ensured by a large financial interest, usually a world government or large interstellar polity. Starpass investor groups keep [[starship]] crews paid and are sought after by captains for their reliability of income. In return, Starpass holders receive travel priority and discounted fare. An individual with a Starpass is a sought-after commodity. Travel costs are ensured and reliable. The tickets get paid.
|- valign="top"
| Jumpliners
| [[Jumpliner]] 
| [[Starship]]
| Typically J-1 to J-2
| [[Jumpliner]]s are the most common ways of traveling the [[star]]s. They are large passenger [[starship]]s optimized to carry many passengers at low prices. There are many types of jump liners each specialized for a specific market or circumstance.
* [[Travel Passage]]
|- valign="top"
| [[Clipper|Clipper Service]]
| [[Jumpliner]]
| [[Starship]]
| Typically J-4 to J-6
| Clippers are [[jumpliner]]s designed to travel the [[starway]]s at a much higher speed than conventional passenger and cargo traffic. Due to the higher cost of passage, only high profit or high-interest routes are chosen, typically subsector or sector capitols although sometimes particularly important trade nexus hubs or industrial centers are included. 
* Traditional passenger service connects specific worlds with layovers for refueling, debarkation and embarkation, and cargo transfers. By its nature, passengers change ships with each layover. 
* Clipper service books passengers for the stated destination. The ship refuels in minimal time by skimming gas giants or using pre-established fuel caches and does not stop nor layover at intervening systems. Passengers are not required to change ships for the journey. Occasional passengers along the route meet the clipper as it passes through the system.

|- valign="top"
| Private Merchants & Tramp Liners
| [[Far Trader]] <br> [[Free Trader]]
| [[Starship]]
| Typically J-2 to J-4
| Smaller [[world]]s with less developed economies may not regularly receive significant interstellar traffic. In such cases, passengers may charter passage with individual captains offering berth on [[postal union]] or small trading runs. A tramp is a [[starship]] traveling unchartered runs, seeking fame and fortune.
* [[Travel Passage]]
|- valign="top"
| Interstellar Yachts
| Private Yacht
| [[Starship]]
| Typically J-4 to J-6
| The very wealthy individually maintain personal starships and crew retainers. They travel where and when they want. They are still subject to world or system law and may seek Imperial or other supra-polity sanctions before entering certain areas.
|- valign="top"
| Starship Crew
| Assorted
| [[Starship]]
| Assorted 
| The market can never meet the demand for skilled [[starship]] crew. A talented Traveller can nearly always find a crew slot to fill.
* [[Working Passage]]
|- valign="top"
| Lab Ships & Science Expeditions
| Lab Ship
| [[Starship]] 
| Typically J-2 to J-4
| Lab ships roam the stars investigating newly discovered, worlds, studying intriguing cosmological phenomena, and exploring the galaxy's mysterious anomalies. [[Travellers]] with specific skill sets are always in high demand. Skilled Travellers rarely have any difficulty finding a skilled crewman-specialist berth.
|- valign="top"
| Colony Ships & Colonial Expeditions
| Colony Ship
| [[Starship]]
| Typically J-2 to J-4
| As the [[Imperial Fringe]] and other frontiers are developed, colony ships and colonial expeditions frequently send messages ahead of their route looking for bodies to fill their berths if not at capacity. Due to low berth losses and the unreliability of passengers, many such [[starship]]s find themselves with unexpected empty slots. Beggars can't be choosers and sometimes signing onto a colony ship is the most expedient way off-world. 
|- valign="top"
| [[Aslan]] [[Ihatei]]
| Colony Ship
| [[Starship]]
| Typically J-2 to J-4
| [[Aslan Clan]]s and cooperatives regularly launch [[ihatei]] expeditions looking for fresh land. It is not unknown for [[Aslan]] to allow paying passengers to accompany them. Few Travellers would choose this potentially hazardous method, but it is not unknown. 
|- valign="top"
| Vargr Wanderlust
| Assorted
| [[Starship]]
| Assorted 
| In the [[Vargr Extents]], it is almost a rite of passage to join a [[corsair]] crew and satisfy one's canidoid traveling curiosity. Outside of the Extents, [[Vargr]] often channel this energy into joining [[starship]] crews or signing onto colonial expeditions.
|- 
|}

===Interstellar Exploration Services===
[[Charted Space]] is but a drop of [[star]]s in the vast reaches of [[Galaxias]]. There is much to explore, but very few scouts. Non-Imperials performing missions similar to the Scouts are called [[Explorer Service]]s by the [[IISS]].

:{| class="wikitable sortable" 
|+ Interstellar Exploration Services
! Name
! Allegiance
! Base
! Purpose
! Remarks
|- valign="top"
| [[Imperial Interstellar Scout Service]] ([[IISS]])
| Imperial
| [[Scout Base]]
| Exploration & Surveying
* Intelligence & Paramilitary Reserve
| The [[Imperial Interstellar Scout Service]] ([[IISS]]) is a major service within the [[Third Imperium]], equal in bureaucratic stature to the [[Imperial Army]] and the [[Imperial Navy]], although assigned a variety of unique, primarily non-military missions.  Many of those missions involve exploratory survey missions.
|- valign="top"
| [[Explorer Service]]
| Non-Imperial
| [[Explorer Base]]
| Exploration & Surveying
| An [[Explorer Service]] is a non-Imperial service focused on exploration, which is functionally equivalent to the [[Imperial Interstellar Scout Service]].
* Each non-Imperial [[polity]] creates its own version of an [[Explorer Service]] if it has one at all. 
|- 
|}

== History ==
The first [[Travellers]] existed long before [[spaceflight]]. They were adventurous souls with a curiosity that wouldn't quit. They wouldn't abide by the ''status quo'' and pushed for more. Such individuals dare to go where others won't. They push out every boundary that they find: circumnavigators of globes, first to flight, interstellar explorers... They have the [[Traveller Gene]].

=== Travel Zones === 
[[Travel Zone]]s are marked areas on [[star chart]]s indicating the relative safety or danger of a specific [[stellar system]] or astrographic area. 

Please see the following [[AAB]] [[Library Data]] articles for more information:
* [[Travel Zone]]s
** [[Amber Zone]]
** [[Black Zone]]
** [[Green Zone]]
** [[Interdiction]]
** [[Red Zone]]

===Traveller Gene===
Most people (indeed, whole species) never leave their [[homeworld]]: they never venture out of their gravity well, content to work, play, and even thrive on their home planet. Some postulate that there is a genetic basis for the drive of some (and the lack of drive in others) to reach beyond the bounds of a single world into the greater [[universe]]: a ''[[Traveller Gene]]''.

===Travel Passage===
Not all [[Travellers]] traverse the [[star]]s with the same comforts... or liabilties. Please see the following [[AAB]] articles for more information:
* [[Low Passage]]
** [[Low Lottery]]
* [[Middle Passage]]
* [[High Passage]]
* [[Working Passage]]

===Travelling Societies ===
[[Travelling Societies]] are [[organization]]s, usually business entities, providing services to [[Travellers]]. These services are intended to make potentially dangerous interstellar travel much more hospitable.
 
:{| class="wikitable sortable" 
|+ Travelling Societies
! Name
! Extancy
! Type
! Purpose
! Remarks
|- valign="top"
| [[Octagon Society]]
| Non-extant
| Interstellar Aid Organization 
| Luxury Service
* (Comfort [[Travellers]])
| Established in [[342]], the '''Octagon Society''' was the first major distressed spacefarer assistance operation to appear in the [[Spinward Marches Sector|Spinward Marches]]. The group thrived on public contributions and on some tax revenues for 150 years; then it collapsed in the late 400's when scandals emerged over the quality of shelter construction and the disposition of certain funds.
|- valign="top"
| [[Travellers' Aid Society]]
| Extant
| Interstellar Aid Organization 
| Luxury Service
* (Comfort [[Travellers]])
| The [[Travellers' Aid Society]] (TAS) is a private [[organization]] which maintains hostels and [[facilities]] at nearly all class A and B [[starport]]s in [[Charted Space]].
|- 
|}

== Sources ==
{{Advanced}}
{{Sources
| NOTE: ''This article is an amalgamation of many different materials published since 1977 including unpublished notes from [[Marc Miller]].''
| {{CT}} Book 2 [[Starships]]
| Periodical: [[Stellar Reaches 19]]
| Novel: [[Agent of the Imperium]]
| [[Traveller Wiki Editorial Team]]
| Author & Contributor: [[Crawm Lermil]]
| Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology [[Maksim-Smelchak]] of the [[Ministry of Science]]
}}


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