Freelance Traveller

Jul/Aug 2023	Department	Article Title	Author
	From the Editor		Jeff Zeitlin
	Featured Articles
	Active Measures	Medevac!	Timothy Collinson
	Critics’ Corner	Tree of Life: Altrants in Clement Sector	Jeff Zeitlin
		Danifred Class Light Trader	Paul Anuni
		Off the Table: The Boys from the Baltic Star: An ‘Actual Play’ Review	Timothy Collinson
		Off the Table: Slices of Life	Shannon Appelcline
	Active Measures	Getting Off the Ground: Van-Go-Go-Go	James Huron
	The Shipyard	Mongoose Traveller Designs: Osgood-class Long Range Scout	Jeffrey Schwartz
	Raconteurs’ Rest	The Astoundingly True Tales of José Fabuloso [Chapter 4]	Jo Jaquinta
	Columns	Confessions of a Newbie Referee: #63: A Crowning Event	Timothy Collinson
	Kurishdam	Lecture Hall and Library: Jump Destination: Bryant’s World, Amberstar System	Ken Pick
		Lecture Hall and Library: Building Your Mercenary Unit: Teeth to Tail	Paul Hillers
	The Prep Room	Beyond Our Ken: Describing Research Bases in Traveller	Timothy Collinson
	Doing It My Way	Character Detailing Rules: The World of the NPC-i (NPC, idiot)	Neil Lucock
	Up Close and Personal	Ngedh Saekeghadez	Brian G. Vaughan

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From the Editor

For the first time ever, I need to ‘shout out’ a ‘thank you’ to someone totally uninvolved with Traveller.

At the end of May, I ‘discovered’, the hard way, that while laptop users may like «soda name redacted», laptop computers do not. I took the now-dead laptop that had been the main computer for working on Freelance Traveller to my local Micro Center store, in hopes that they would be able to recover—at the very least—my user files, so that I could at least finish scratching together this issue.

Their tech people were able to recover every byte—programs, data, configurations, everything I needed. As a result, it took me less time than expected to get back up and running, and as a result, this issue of Freelance Traveller is published on time, and not delayed as I had originally expected.

For those of you who have a Micro Center nearby, I heartily recommend them for ‘tech rescue’; they listened to what I told them of the events that transpired, and they gave me a fair evaluation of the likelihood that they would be able to help me. They didn’t ‘talk down’ to me, and they gave fair evaluations of all the possibilities for repair vs. replacement, including an honest appraisal of what parts would need to be replaced, and the likely lifetime of the rehabilitated computer.

To Freddy Tamarazzo and the rest of his team at Micro Center in Yonkers, NY, thank you.