Freelance Traveller

July/August 2016	Department	Article Title	Author
	From the Editor		Jeff Zeitlin
	Featured Article
	The Prep Room	Designing Careers for Classic-Compatible Traveller	Jeff Zeitlin
	Critics’ Corner	Why Classic Traveller?	Mark Knight
		2300AD Core Rulebook	Megan Robertson
		2300AD: Ships of the French Arm	Megan Robertson
		21 Plots Samaritan	“kafka”
	Raconteurs’ Rest	Sword Worlds Resurgent: A Problem Like Myra [Part 1]	John Clifford
		Funny Fish: Bad Things Happen [Part 3]	Andrea Vallance
	Doing It My Way	More Than Four Legs and Nasty Pointy Teeth	Robert Weaver
		Expanding and Integrating Character Generation	Ken Bearden
	Active Measures	Harvest Index	Michael Brown
		Diplomatic Usage	Richard Aiken
	Columns	Confessions of a Newbie Referee: #23: Genius	Timothy Collinson
	The Shipyard	Classic Traveller Designs: Longsword, Kanin, and Krupny-class Destroyer Escorts	Ken Pick
		Classic Traveller Designs: Columbia-class Heavy Battleship/Mobile Base	John T. Kwon
	Up Close and Personal	Avnor W. Bemis	Bill Cameron
		Ganidiirsi “The Starblazer” Kivarru	Michael Brown
	Kurishdam	Lecture Hall and Library: Jump Destination: Knorbes	Jeffrey Schwartz

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From the Editor

I’ve accomplished a previously-unrevealed goal for Freelance Traveller, one which I resolved to try for when I announced the shift to six larger issues per year instead of 12 smaller ones: I’ve managed to get on schedule so that you have the issue in your hands at the start of the cover date period, instead of the middle. Hopefully, with the longer lead time between issues, and with continued (or, preferably, increased) contributions from you, my readers, I should have little trouble staying on that schedule.

This is a good opportunity to plug the idea of “Theme Issues” again—they’re something I like doing, even better than getting great articles that make it hard to decide on an issue’s Featured Article. I have several themes lined up, including one whose publication will have to wait on a long-hoped-for product: Prime Directive Traveller. Even so, I’d like people to start writing for that theme, and also for any and all of the other themes lined up: Dark Imperium, where the velvet glove is a little more threadbare, and the iron fist a bit more visible; The Cruise, where the focus is on the liner, the passengers, and the destination; and Space City, where the focus is on the development and expansion of a spaceside starport, and what it’s like. Plus the usual assortment of reviews, stories, and so on, not tied to a particular theme…