Freelance Traveller

January/February 2017	Department	Article Title	Author
	From the Editor		Jeff Zeitlin
	Featured Article
	Kurishdam	Lecture Hall and Library: Jump Destination: Geolan and Wasphome, Hamilton’s Star System	Ken Pick
	Critics’ Corner	Cepheus Engine	Jeff Zeitlin
		Mongoose Traveller 2nd Edition: The Pirates of Drinax: The Theev Cluster	Megan Robertson
		Dawn Adventures 1: The Subterranean Oceans of Argos Prime	Megan Robertson
	Kurishdam	Art and Entertainment: Off the Wall: Starship Interior Decoration 閱 讀這篇（繁體） 中文文章	Timothy Collinson
	Doing It My Way	Benefits and Burdens: Roleplaying Character Traits in Traveller	Michael Brown
		Character Generation Rules: Martial Artist: A Career for Mongoose Traveller 1st Edition	Steven Pustay
	Active Measures	The Skywhale	Steve Hatherley
		Stranded	Jeff Zeitlin
		Getting Off the Ground: Ordnance	Michael Brown
	Columns	Confessions of a Newbie Referee: #26: Be Careful What You Wish For	Timothy Collinson
	The Shipyard	Naklaad-class Interface Merchant	Timothy Collinson
	Up Close and Personal	Denizens of Marburg	Timothy Collinson

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From the Editor

I am once again extending my apologies for a late issue; this time, it was because I spent two weeks fighting off a northeastern U.S. winter bug. Like a fool, I tried to keep working right through it, and while I managed to meet most of my real-world obligations, I was coming home just too ‘wiped out’ to spend the necessary time on the magazine.

This issue does, however, illustrate what’s possible in the larger bimonthly issues that couldn’t have been sensibly done in the monthly issues: The bulk of this issue is represented by two articles, Ken Pick’s on the Hamilton’s Star system, and Timothy Collinson’s on the Naklaad-class Interface Merchant. These are both quite large articles, and while they could have appeared in the smaller format, both would have had to be broken up across multiple issues—Ken’s into two; Timothy’s into three—or possibly four, actually, as after this issue was essentially ready to ‘print’, I received a Classic Traveller version of the ship from him (which will appear next issue).

So, obviously, big is beautiful. But so is small. And so is what’s between them. And my article files are a bit thin on beauty. I’d really like to see them beautified, but I need your help. Any sort of article is good, whether house rule, ship design, something a character might pick up on a shopping trip, a culture-building article, and adventure, a review, whether of a Traveller product or fiction or a mine-worthy non-Traveller product… it’s all good, and it will all beautify my article files, which means more hopefully-beautiful issues of Freelance Traveller.