Freelance Traveller

Jul/Aug 2021	Department	Article Title	Author
	From the Editor		Jeff Zeitlin
	Featured Article
	Active Measures	Traveller Present Day	Ewan Quibell
	Critics’ Corner	Six Guns: Lasers	“kafka”
		The Evening Star	Ewan Quibell
		Off the Table: The Wagner Incident	Timothy Collinson
		Off the Table: Shadow of the Storm	Ewan Quibell
	The Prep Room	Finding Your Way Around the Starport: Live Cargo Storage	Benedikt Schwarz
		Jottings #12: Writing Systems II	Jeff Zeitlin
		A Conflict of Styles	Jim Vassilakos
	Active Measures	Festival	Richard Morey
	Columns	Confessions of a Newbie Referee #51: Hope	Timothy Collinson
	In A Store Near You	The Gun Shop: Personal Lasers	Bill Cameron
	Less Dangerous Game	The Rhabdomane	Paul Drye
	The Shipyard	Ray-class Subsidized Liner	Jim Kundert
	Doing It My Way	Traveling Imperial Magistrates	Jim Vassilakos
		Salvage, Prizes and Repairs	Tom Mouat (edited by Michael James Cross)
		Implications of Jump Detectability	Garry Ward
		Alternate Nobility	Jeff Zeitlin
		Character Generation Rules: Surgisilena	Michael Brown
	Up Close and Personal	Hal Aphedor	Jim Vassilakos
		Boudreaux Delgado	Ken Murphy
	Multimedia Gallery	Invisible Tattoo in Vilani Lettering	Benedikt Schwarz
	Kurishdam	The Club Room: Surgisilena	Michael Brown

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From the Editor

About two weeks before “going to press”, this issue was ready except for updating the published products (p.60) and a space of about four column-inches at the top of p.35. That last was proving a bit troublesome to fill, until we got an “update” from Kickstarter filed under TravellerCON/USA 2019. That update provided what was needed to fill that space. The one-sentence summary: “It looks like TravellerCON/USA 2021 will be happening.”

Given that, and given that the intent at the present time is that the theme should be “Hivers”, I’d like to make the September/October issue a Theme Issue, with the same theme: Hivers. We recognize that there’s only a limited amount of canonical material on them out there, but it should still be enough of a jumping-off point for your creativity, whether for rules, artwork, consumer goods, plants or animals from Hiver worlds, stories, … whatever. (I recall, for example, that there was an actual novel published in which Hivers played an important role.) Please do what you can to generate enough Hiver-related material to make the Theme Issue a reality.

We are also looking into expanding our presence on social media; recently, we started having a presence on the Traveller Discord server (and we’re waiting for a blurb from the admins to add to our Traveller on the Internet page), and our RSS feed at https://freetrav.dreamwidth.org/data/rss?tag=ftmagazine is live (and updated more often than once every two months). We’d appreciate input (best way is email, editor@freelancetraveller.com) for other ideas from those who are knowledgeable about other platforms, and their requirements and restrictions.