Freelance TravellerWeapons, vehicles, and starships are all well and good - but trade needs more than that to be profitable. Survival trading will involve raw materials, that will be used to make other things. Thriving trade will be in luxury finished goods - the things that make life fun, rather than just merely tolerable. These pages will describe those goods.
- BioJewels (Jeff Zeitlin) A health monitor that makes a fashion statement - or is it a fashion item that's useful for monitoring health?
- Buzzknucks (Scott Diamond) A shocking development from 'brass knuckles'
- Dress Me Up (Chris Seamans) Children use consumer goods, too - and this one will be enormously popular among them.
- Everfresh Sandwiches (Ken Murphy) A whle new meaning to 'mystery meat'.
- The InterAct Music System (Chris Seamans) A Home Entertainment System.
- Light Duty Line-Throwing Tool (Les DeGroff) You never know when feeding someone a line could come in handy
- LSP Data Goggles (Thomas Barclay) More than just a heads-up display
- Microfoil (Chris Seamans) Something that neither the home workshop nor the ship's locker should be without.
- Old Cleon's Olives (Ken Murphy) Continued rummaging through the aisles of the corner supermarket turns up this interesting addition to the bar cabinet.
- Pathfinder Boots (Art O'Mary) You can walk far more than a mile in their shoes.
- Rikarunasha's Peers, Precendence, and Protocols of the Third Imperium (Jeff Zeitlin) The definitive guide to the Imperial Nobility
- Smart Fabrics (Glenn Grant) The ultimate fashion statement.
- Temporal Tonic Wine (Alan Hume) A source of alcohol-fueled controversy
- TinTailor (Michael Hughes) A solution to the lost-luggage problem.
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The Gun Shop
It's not unusual for the campaign party to decide that a problem's best solution is via the application of sufficient firepower. Here's where to come for the applicators.
- Advanced Lasers: TL-13 Laser Weapons for MegaTraveller and Striker (Ken Pick) High-Tech High-Energy weapons
- Anderson J-90 Personal Defense Body Pistol (Martin Carter) Concealably compact
- Chemical Laser Cartridge Revolver (Dan Burns) A concealable laser weapon
- Personal Lasers (Bill Cameron) Some "magazine-powered" laser weapons.
- Urdiss Arms PDW-1120 (John T. Kwon) Gauss Gets Personal
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Handle With Care
Cargos that can cause more than ordinary amounts of trouble need more than ordinary amounts of care...
- Ice Lily (Martin Carter) A plant that blooms in freezing weather can warm things up in a hurry...
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The Promenade
The shops can be as interesting as the goods they sell.
- Chandlers (Jeffrey Schwartz) Provisions and more, with a cachet all its own
- Valshanti's Spice Experience (Walt Smith) The height of fine dining, or a sham of faux elegance?