Freelance Traveller

January/February 2014	Department	Article Title	Author
	From the Editor		Jeff Zeitlin
	Featured Article
	Doing It My Way	Character Generation Rules: The “Other” Option: An Extended Career for Classic Traveller	Michael Brown
	Critics’ Corner	Mongoose Traveller: The Third Imperium: Crowded Hours	“kafka”
		Darthanon Queen	Ewan Quibell
		Techbook: Chrome	“kafka”
	Up Close and Personal	Soren Kjellgaard	Richard Crowley
	Active Measures	The Night Visitors	Bill Cameron
		The Slavers of Gennare	Bruce Johnson
		I.C.E.	Michael Gilliam
	Raconteurs’ Rest	Funny Fish: Choices [Part 2]	Andrea Vallance
	Doing It My Way	Character Generation Rules: The Martial Artist: A Career for Mongoose Traveller	Gary Wilkins
	Confessions of a Newbie Referee	#7: Combat	Timothy Collinson
	In A Store Near You	The Arms Bazaar: XF-309 Pigeon and XF-310 Spider Drones	Daniel Boese
		Trailbluffer Boots	Art O’Mary
	The Shipyard	President-class Holiday Cruiser	Michael Gilliam

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From the Editor

This issue’s “From the Editor” is basically an apology and explanation. A double issue at the end of January is not how I wanted to start Freelance Traveller’s fifth year of publication, but a series of real-life happenings—good and bad—conspired to leave me less time to edit the magazine at just the wrong time.

First… I got promoted at my real-world job. This is something that I’d been hoping would occur for more than half of the past twenty years I’ve been with my current employer—and which I honestly didn’t expect to see for at least another two years. As a result, I was utterly unprepared for it—I had to take time out from editing the magazine to get a suit to wear at the ceremony (I can no longer dress “off the rack”), for the ceremony itself, and for the inevitable celebrations—both office and personal/family—that followed the ceremony. That chewed up most of the time I’d allocated leading up to the end of December, when I’d hoped to post this issue.

Then… I got sick for a couple of days, from overindulging at the celebrations. There really is such a thing as too much Junior’s cheesecake… Then, I had some Internet connectivity problems. I was able to mostly finish the editing, but I couldn’t post. The internet problems got fixed, right in time for a winter storm to knock out my phone (which took down my internet). A week later, that got fixed—including internet. Except that three days later, my provider’s provider stopped providing (so I’m looking for new internet service, and posting from the library…)… None of this was looked for, and I truly am sorry it deprived you, my readers, of a month’s worth of enjoyment. I’ll keep trying; I promise.