Freelance Traveller

Nov/Dec 2020	Department	Article Title	Author
	From the Editor		Jeff Zeitlin
	Theme Issue: Starships
	Doing It My Way	Technology Rules: The Lyman Drive: An Alternative to the Standard Jump Drive	Jeff Zeitlin
		Technology Rules: The Lyman Drive in Mongoose Traveller 2nd Edition	Alex Goodwin
		Character Generation Rules: Spacecraft Classification Society: A Mongoose Traveller Career	Chris Barlow
	The Shipyard	Classic Traveller Designs: MV Emma Reid	James Davies
	Active Measures	Getting Off the Ground: Prototype	Joel Callahan
	Critics’ Corner	Darkest Stars: A Classic Traveller Fanzine	Timothy Collinson
		Other People’s Toys: Pip System Corebook	Jeff Zeitlin
		Off the Table: Legacy of Lehr	Jim Catchpole
		Off the Table: The Number of the Beast	Timothy Collinson
	Raconteurs’ Rest	Smoke Test: Once in a Blue Moon [Chapter Ten]	Michael Capriola and C. A. Pella
		After-Action Report: Ascent to Anekthor	Timothy Collinson
	Active Measures	Getting Off the Ground: Red Zone	Louis Wester
	In A Store Near You	Alka Shiriigi Personal Attendant Robot	Benedikt Schwarz
		Portable Chemical Detector, TL9-11	Sam Swindell
	Multimedia Gallery	Twilight Stories #1: Port of Transit	Mike Cross
	Less Dangerous Game	Collinson’s Kirpi	Timothy Collinson
	Columns	Confessions of a Newbie Referee: #47: Lockdown Breakdown	Timothy Collinson
	Doing It My Way	The Robot as Animal	Kevin Scrivner

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From the Editor

This issue being a Theme Issue sort of “just happened”—while I was trying to decide which article to mark as the featured article (and there were several good candidates), I noticed that I had several articles of good length on starship-related topics. That was enough to decide to “feature” all of them, and convert the issue to a Theme Issue.

I have several other ideas for Theme Issues; perhaps providing a partial list will inspire some of our readers to generate some appropriate articles:

The Yacht:

Focussing on starships owned by and outfitted for the pleasure of individuals.

The Cruise:

Starships, adventures, personalities, etc., that might be connected with a multi-jump interstellar trip to tourism destinations.

A Darker Imperium:

The Imperium is generally portrayed as having a “light hand” on its subject worlds. But what about the unspoken “velvet glove covering a mailed fist”? Is the Imperium suppressing discussion of some of its less-savory aspects?

Religion and Philosophy:

Everyone believes in something, and those beliefs influence attitudes and actions. What are some of those beliefs? What happens when different belief systems start rubbing against each other?