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TRAVELLER

Supplement 7:

1,001 Characters

Populating the Stars

T RAVELLER

1,001 C HARACTERS

C REDITS

C ONTENTS

Classic Traveller

Marc Miller

I NTRODUCTION 2

C ORPORATE 4

G OVERNMENT 39

M ILITARY 74

C RIMINAL 108

I NDEPENDENTS 142

A LIENS , O UTCASTS AND THE F RINGE 178

T HE 1,001 ST C HARACTER

Loren Wiseman, John Harshman, Frank Chadwick, Darryl Hany,

Winston Hamilton, Tony Svajlenka, Scott Renner, Doug Poe,

David MacDonald, Wayne Roth, Paul R. Banner

Mongoose Traveller

A UTHOR

August Hahn

E DITOR

Nick Robinson

L AYOUT

Will Chapman

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I NTERIOR I LLUSTRATIONS

Jason Banditt Adams

P ROOFREADER

Charlotte Law

S PECIAL T HANKS

Dominic Mooney, Stuart Machin, David Ives

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I NTRODUCTION

Imagine the setting. A gleaming world turns on the fringes

of known space. Down on its surface, a sprawling city rests

where a rocky shore meets the sea. A massive dock on the

city’s landward side plays host to hundreds of ships and smaller

craft. High above the city in geosynchronous orbit, a newly built

space station catches the rays of the system’s blazing sun.

Approaching the station, its engines at low burn, a starship the

size of an ofﬁ ce building prepares to resupply.

the game. With 1,001 characters to choose from, no plot is likely

to run out of options for new blood.

Every character includes a Subtitle(s) entry at the bottom of its

description. The Subtitle(s) is a small summation, most often

two words, that gives a snapshot of that person. By just looking

at this entry, a Referee can quickly ﬁ nd someone to match the

needs of the game.

Teeming cities, planetside docks, space stations and capital

ships all have one thing in common. They are ﬁ lled with people.

The people may not always be human in Traveller but they are

always there. Interaction is one of the cornerstones of any game

and non-player characters are the tools a Referee uses to do so

with the players.

1001 Characters is useful for more than just quick roles in a

game. Each character has its own careers, skills, equipment

and personality complete with motivations. Many even have

something in their backgrounds that could lead to adventure

ideas of their own. Just by reading and using a few of the

characters in this book, a Referee could incorporate entirely

new subplots, ﬂ esh out existing ones or even create a campaign

around the material provided in these descriptions.

No game would be complete without these characters, foils

for the Referee to impart information, engage the players and

sometimes even challenge them directly. Some will be allies,

others enemies and the rest just neutral parties trying to survive

in the same dangerous universe. No matter what the players

might do or where they might go, the Referee is always going to

need new Non-Player Characters to keep the game interesting.

The entries here could be used as a launching point for Player

Characters to short-cut the creation process, jump right into a

game or to give players something to build a character around.

Each character is a legitimate one as per creation rules but

for the sake of the subject matter only relevant skills and any

skills above 0 have been listed. Likewise, equipment has been

limited to what might have direct import when ﬁ rst encountering

the character. Referees wishing to have their players use these

characters as their own may want to take some little time to

ﬂ esh them out completely.

That is where 1,001 Characters comes in; it provides exactly

what the title implies. In these pages rest just over 1,000

different people, many human and some alien. They come

complete with names, game statistics and a synopsis to give

Referees an instant idea of who they are and where they might

ﬁ t in the overall scheme of their universe. Some are young,

others are old. Some are simple, others are quite complex.

Some are peaceful, others are Aslan. It takes all kinds to build

the Traveller galaxy and all kinds are exactly what await readers

in this book.

On the subject of skills, several characters are given skills that

normally cascade into specialties. With only a few exceptions

where character concepts require it, these skills have been left

without specialties. This allows Referees to assign whatever

specialties would make the Non-Player Character ﬁ t best in their

campaigns. Normal rules for choosing specialties and increasing

them with new skill ranks still apply.

H OW TO U SE 1,001 C HARACTERS

There are no limits to what a Referee can do with this material.

The basic premise is that whenever a new Non-Player Character

is needed, the Referee can simply scan the entrees for a likely

individual based on careers or other needs and pull them into

W HAT Y OU W ILL F IND W ITHIN

The ﬁ rst 1,000 characters are divided into six chapters that offer

a basic overview of where they might exist in the galaxy. Each

I NTRODUCTION

T HE C RIMINAL C HAPTER

Perhaps even more certain than governments and the military,

criminals are everywhere. From murder to minor crimes, the

many forms of lawlessness in the galaxy can be found in this

chapter. There are a couple of teams as well, a gang that

would be especially at home in a space port town or large city

and a band of pirates more daring than their numbers might

support. The many faces of anti-social behaviour all have their

place here.

chapter is then divided by pages into groups of six characters

all conforming to a simple subject but quite diverse individually.

For example, the Accountants page in the Corporate chapter

lists six characters that, while they may ﬁ t in a corporation-style

setting and are all capable of serving as accountants, are quite

different from one another.

The six chapters are all very broad categories and offer a wide

variety within each one. Several of the chapters also have ‘team’

pages, groups of six characters that all ﬁ t together and are best

used that way.

T HE I NDEPENDENTS A TO Z C HAPTER

Those who are not rich, powerful, militant or miscreant have a

place in the universe as well. That place is in this chapter. As

suggested in the title, the chapter is divided into categories from

A to Z with six characters in each one. From artisans to zealots

and every sort of galactic citizen in-between, this chapter offers

a cross reference of humanity in space.

T HE C ORPORATE C HAPTER

Because businesses and megacorporations can play such a

huge role in galactic events and often form entire settings in

Traveller games, characters suitable for use against a business

or corporate backdrop have been gathered here. This chapter

has several teams, each one designed to show the sort of groups

that might be formed to handle economic challenges and deal

with competitors. In the business world of Traveller , ‘dealing with

competitors’ can be every bit as unpleasant as it sounds.

T HE A LIENS , O UTCASTS AND THE F RINGE C HAPTER

Traveller makes room for lots of different forms of life and so

does 1,001 Characters . This chapter includes several pages

on each of the Major Races provided in the Core Rulebook.

Aslan, Droyne, Hiver, K’kree, Vargr and the Zhodani are all

represented with characters that either help deﬁ ne the race

or throw its conventions and culture into sharp relief. There is

even a section on Humanitii and several unidentiﬁ ed sentient

creatures, ﬁ ve pages of characters that do not ﬁ t the usual

mould. If a Referee is looking for the alien and unusual, this is

the only chapter needed.

T HE G OVERNMENT C HAPTER

Every planet with sentient life has some sort of leadership

model for its people. Even the most primitive planets have

governments, whether it be based on might makes right or rule

by elders. The policies of the Third Imperium encourage this

diversity by imposing very few restrictions on the governments

of worlds within its territory. This chapter provides characters

from more than two dozen forms of government, each one has

both a usable personality and a glimpse into the whys, hows

and realities of their worlds’ leadership.

L AST B UT N OT L EAST

The ﬁ nal character in the book is one that could easily be for

the basis for a game all by himself. Filled with plot options

and possibilities for Referees looking to mine the material, the

1,001 st character is a very special individual with a personality

and history set ﬁ rmly in the setting of the Third Imperium. That

said, he could certainly be inserted into any other background

or incorporated into any plotline with just a little alteration.

T HE M ILITARY C HAPTER

Almost without exception, wherever there is life there are

soldiers. The military is a fact of life on virtually every world with

a population larger than a few families. This chapter is broken

down into kinds of soldiers and offers different imaginings of the

same role. There are also teams of warriors with motivations and

armaments listed. The characters in this chapter are especially

well-suited to being pulled out of context and used to represent

challenges the players might face during the game.

In fact, depending on when the game is set during the 1,001 st

character’s personal history, he might even be looking for some

useful allies or a new apprentice...

C ORPORATE

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