Freelance Traveller

Jan/Feb 2021	Department	Article Title	Author
	From the Editor		Jeff Zeitlin
	Featured Article
	Raconteurs’ Rest	After-Action Report: Virtual Traveller 2020	Jim Vassilakos
	Critics’ Corner	Mongoose Traveller Adventure 4: Into the Unknown	Jeff Zeitlin
		Express Boat, Tender, and Scout Ship Deck Plans	Ewan Quibell
		Geptorem	Ewan Quibell
		Off the Table: Hunters of the Sky Cave	David Johnson
	Raconteurs’ Rest	The Lost Diaries #3: Mission Aborted	Dean S.
	The Prep Room	Bankers’ Boxes: Cheap and Cheerful Storage for Digest-sized Traveller Books	Timothy Collinson
		Finding Your Way Around the Starport: The Military Dock	Benedikt Schwarz
		Sources of Inspiration: The South Seas Island Adventures	Kevin Scrivner
	Active Measures	The Seeds of a War Gone Cold	Thomas Barclay
	Columns	Confessions of a Newbie Referee: #48: One Thing Leads to Another	Timothy Collinson
	Multimedia Gallery	Twilight Stories #1: Port of Transit	Mike Cross
	The Shipyard	MegaTraveller Designs: Shaar Muzaandi-class Freighter	Jeffrey Wharton
	Doing It My Way	Technology Rules: Laser Smallarms in Classic Traveller	Ken Pick

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From the Editor

There’s no denying that 2020 was a year that will be remembered for a long time, with general agreement that it would be better forgotten. However, at the same time, I would be remiss in failing to point out that—for Traveller—it can’t be called a complete failure: Mongoose put out its third major Kickstarter-funded campaign set, Deepnight Revelation (with the hard-copy products to be shipped in 2021), following on 2019’s Element-Class Cruisers and 2018’s Great Rift.

Other Kickstarter-funded projects that came to fruition in 2020 were Rob Eaglestone’s XBoat and Mongoose’s Journal of the Travellers’ Aid Society boxed set, and (beyond Kickstarter) Timothy Collinson’s March Harrier Publishing imprint released no less than three (more) (excellent) adventures.

TravCon/UK went off on schedule, squeaking in just before the UK went into dumpanic pandemic restrictions, but the loss of TravellerCON/USA to the pandemic didn’t prevent October from having a weekend of Traveller gaming; Jim Vassilakos gives his take on Virtual Traveller 2020 in this issue.

Although I didn’t find out about it until just two days before I sat down to write this (Boxing Day), August 2020 saw another Traveller support fanzine—or rather, a Cepheus Engine support fanzine—go to “press”; I’ll review the first three issues of Cepheus Journal in Freelance Traveller’s next issue—and no, I’m not “going in” biased either way; good quality support for Cepheus Engine can only benefit the community, and you should all know by now that I’m about benefiting the community.