Freelance Traveller

Jan/Feb 2022	Department	Article Title	Author
	From the Editor		Jeff Zeitlin
	Featured Article
	Active Measures	The Tale of the Black Freighter	Alex Greene
	Critics’ Corner	The Sword of Cepheus	Jeff Zeitlin
		Barreller	Ewan Quibell
		Starships Book IIOO: Cruise Ship	Paul Anuni
	Doing It My Way	Planetary Communications in Traveller	David Burden
		Tweaking Power Projection for Small-Ship Campaigns	Ken Pick
	Kurishdam	The Club Room: Eroctopi	Timothy Collinson
		Lecture Hall and Library: Non-Humans in Sacnoth Dominate Space	David Johnson
		The Club Room: El Alba (lea en español)	Gaizka Márquez (translated by Google Translate and Jeff Zeitlin)
	Columns	Confessions of a Newbie Referee: #54: Getting Real	Timothy Collinson
	The Prep Room	Jump Theory	Joseph Jaquinta
		Feeding the Crew	Frank Miskevich

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From the Editor

Last issue, I said I’d use this space to outline what I hope to do with Freelance Traveller in the coming year. Overall, it will be more of the same—fan support of Traveller in all of its forms—but there are some specific things that I would like to see happen (and which can, with your help and feedback).

First: Theme issues. I’d like to see at least two per year, not counting the issues following TravCon/UK and TravellerCON/USA. TravCon/UK generally happens in March, and TravellerCON/USA in October, so the May/June and November/December issues should generally focus on them. The other four issues per year are available for themes. I’ll be posting requests for theme-related articles to the TML, to the Mongoose and Citizens of the Imperium forums, to the RSS feed, and in #self-advertising and #random-sfw on the Traveller Discord.

Traveller: Prime Directive is expected to be released this year; if it comes to pass, I’d like the first issue subsequent to its release to use it as a theme (one of 2022’s two, if it happens), and I’d like you all to keep in mind that it will become a supported setting in Freelance Traveller.

Next: Traveller-related artwork. I’d like to see more of this, including maps, floor/deck plans, diagrams, character portraits, and so on; they don’t all have to be CAD or 3D renders with elaborate backgrounds. Artwork accompanying articles is fantastic, artwork as its own thing for the Multimedia Gallery is also fantastic; artwork submitted as fillers for the magazine, but not necessarily for the Gallery, is great.

I have some more ideas percolating around in the back of my head; if any of them solidify enough, I’ll bring them here.

This is where I make my usual request for more material from you; the stored articles are getting a bit thin on the ground again. Please, write! If you’re not seeing the kind of thing in Freelance Traveller you’d like, please email the editor and let me know; I’m always open to changes that the community wants, both in content and in style.