Travelling in Charted Space

Travelling in Charted Space: In a sector-spanning civilization with little standardization and decentralized governance, travelling the stars 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 possess a wanderlust and sense of adventure that compels them to seek the stars. They have the Traveller Gene.

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Please see the following AAB articles for more information:

• Interstellar Travelling
  • Signal-GK
  • Travel Passage
  • Travel Zones
    • Interdiction
  • Traveller Gene
  • Travelling in Charted Space
  • Travelling Societies
• Interstellar Commerce
  • Trading Starship Types (Merchants - Civilian Starship Types)
    • Commercial Merchants (business groups)
      • Jump Carrier
        • Jump Riders
      • Jumpliners (Passenger travel)
        • Longliners
        • Luxury Liners
        • Merchant Liners
        • Starliners
    • Private Merchants (Individual captain-owners)
      • Far Traders (J-2+)
      • Fat Traders (Enhanced cargo capacity)
      • Free Traders (J-1)
      • Frontier Traders (Enhanced survivability)
      • Safari Ships (specialized tourism)
• Interstellar Colonization
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• Interstellar Exploration
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Description (Specifications)

There are many ways to travel the stars of Charted Space.

Starpass

A Starpass is a widely accepted prepaid travel voucher ensured by a large financial interest, usually a world government or large interstellar polity. The Starpass investors group keeps the starship crews paid and are sought after by captains for their reliability of income. An individual with a Starpass is a sought after commodity. Travel costs are ensured and reliable. The tickets get paid.

Jumpliners

Jumpliners are the most common ways of travelling the stars. They are large passenger starships optimized to carry many passengers at low prices. There are many types of jumpliners each specialized for a specific market or circumstance.

Private Merchants & Tramp Liners

Smaller worlds 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 liner is a starship travelling unchartered runs, seeking fame and fortune.

Interstellar Yachts

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 sanction before entering certain areas.

Starship Crew

The market can never meet demand for skilled starship crew. A talented Traveller can nearly always find a crew slot to fill.

Lab Ships & Science Expeditions

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.

Colony Ships & Colonial Expeditions

As the Imperial Fringe and other frontiers are developed , colony ships and colonial expeditions frequently send message 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 starships find themselves with unexpected empty slots. Beggars can't be choosers and sometimes signing onto a colony ship is the most expedient way offworld.

Aslan Ihatei

Aslan Clans and cooperatives regularly launch ihatei expeditions looking for fresh land. It is not unknown for Aslan to allow paying passengers to accompany them.

Vargr Wanderlust

In the Vargr Extents, it is almost a rite of passage to join a corsair crew and satisfy one's canidoid travelling curiosity. Outside of the Extents, Vargr often channel this energy into joining starship crews or signing onto colonial expeditions.

History & Background (Dossier)

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

Travel Passage

• Low Passage
  • Low Lottery
• Middle Passage
• High Passage

Traveller Gene

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Travelling Societies

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• Travelling Societies

Octagon Society

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Travellers' Aid Society

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Interstellar Explorers

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Imperial Interstellar Scout Service

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Explorer Bases & Services

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• Explorer Base

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• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science