Freelance Traveller

April 2010	Department	Article Title	Author
	From the Editor		Jeff Zeitlin
	Essay Question		Jeff Zeitlin
	Fifth Imperium	#8: Genre-ic Plot Seeds, Part One	Shannon Appelcline
	Active Measures	Mercenary Ticket—Hammer and Anvil	J. Edward Collins
	Less Dangerous Game	Bezel-De	Bill Cameron
	Raconteurs' Rest	...From the Machine [Prologue]	Leslie Bates
	Special Supplement 1	Design Notes for Mercator Download Special Supplement 1: Mercator	Paul Elliot
	Doing It My Way	Scientists: An Elaborated Career for Classic Traveller	Neal Oldham
	Multimedia Gallery	Orbiting Scout	Ndege Diamond
		Sierra on Landing Pad	Jeffrey Schwartz
	Critics' Corner	Mongoose Traveller - Strontium Dog: Bounties and Warrants	Jeff Zeitlin
		Mongoose Traveller - The Third Imperium: Alien Module 1: Aslan	Jeff Zeitlin

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From the Editor

In spite of a serious disk problem with the computer that we actually build Freelance Traveller on, and a minor attack of life, we’ve managed to get this month’s issue out only a bit more than a week after we’d planned, and haven’t lost a single byte of data in the process. We apologise for the delay, and hope that you’re not too disappointed with us.

This month represents a first for us—with the permission of the author, we’re offering as a Special Supplement an entire new setting guide: Mercator, by Paul Elliot for Classic Traveller. Paul has also provided us with some design notes on this supplement.

We will be doing other Special Supplements in the future; if you have any ideas for new ones, or any contributions to announced plans, please do not hesitate to contact us through the usual channels.

We’re working on two submissions guides for Freelance Traveller: a quick overview that will be adequate for most submissions, and a more detailed one that discusses technical limitations and criteria for certain sections. For most people, the submission guidelines will amount to “It’s Traveller? Send it in!”; for a few things, we’ll ask for specific formats or specific types of content.

Some of our readers have noticed that we’ve been remiss in updating the Published Products lists on the website. Currently, that’s a manual job. We’re looking at making it more useful to our readers, by making it searchable and sortable. We’d like to hear from you what sort of searches you’d like to be able to conduct on it. Please send your comments on this to tech@freelancetraveller.com. Also, if you might be interested in helping us with PHP code for this, contact us at the same address.