Freelance Traveller

February 2012	Department	Article Title	Author
	From the Editor		Jeff Zeitlin
	Featured Article
	Doing It My Way	Character Generation Rules: Warrant Officer: An Expansion for Military Careers in MegaTraveller	Jeff Wheeler
	Critics’ Corner	Supplement 8: Cybernetics	“kafka”
		Creatures of Distant Worlds Compendium 1	Jeff Zeitlin
		Off the Table: Gateway to the Stars	Shannon Appelcline
		Off the Table: The T4 JTAS Short Fiction	Shannon Appelcline
	Raconteurs’ Rest	Drop Out (Part 13)	Ken Murphy
	Up Close and Personal	Aubrey Wills	Ken Murphy
	In A Store Near You	The Showroom: Allport-class Commuter Ferry	Timothy Collinson
	Active Measures	Getting Off the Ground: Beached	J.E. Geoffrey
		Getting Off the Ground: Noble Action	Jeffrey Schwartz with Jeff Zeitlin
	Kurishdam	Games People Play: Old Reliables	Sam Swindell
		At Home, We Do It Like This: Slice of Life: Holographic and Immersive Technology	Mike Cross
	Multimedia Gallery	From the Forge	Jesse De Graff, via “kardaen”
		Cover Girls	K.H. Wodenssen

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From the Editor

Once again, it’s time to put out a request for articles—we’re getting a bit thin on the ground in some sections, and in others, we need to track down some authors so that we can work with them to make a previous submission publishable. That makes it a bit difficult to fill an issue, sadly.

Any section is fair game; if you’re willing to write it, we’re willing to look at it. Some sections—most notably “The Shipyard”—have somewhat tighter requirements than Freelance Traveller does in general, but we’ll be happy to work with you to explain them; write and ask.

We’d like to see more regular features, along the lines of Mike Cross’s “Slice of Life”, or Shannon Appelcline’s “Fifth Imperium”. If you want to be a regular columnist, you don’t need to have a theme tying your column together across issues; you just need to be willing to write something on a regular basis (not even every month; we’re perfectly willing to have columnists alternating to fill a space).

“In A Store Near You” has a some subsections that could benefit from your creative juices—“The Promenade”, “The Gun Shop”, and “Handle With Care” are all lighter on material than we could wish.

Reviews are also good. Review what you wish; don’t worry about whether it’s already been reviewed by someone else—multiple viewpoints and opinions are good. Don’t worry about it being out of print, either—much of the early Traveller material is now available on one or another of the FarFuture CD-ROM collections, so reviews aren’t entirely meaningless. Non-Traveller gaming supplements that you feel would have interest to the Traveller player or referee are also fair game; that’s what the “Other People’s Toys” subsection is all about. “Off the Table” is for the recreational reading that you think will appeal to the Traveller fan.

And, of course, if you have house rules (“Doing It My Way”) or settings (“Kurishdam”), or if you’ve turned your hand to writing fiction (“Raconteurs’ Rest”) or adventures (“Active Measures”) in the Traveller milieu, or if you have an artistic bent (“Multimedia Gallery”)… or anything else (if we don’t have a section, we’ll invent one!)… we’re interested. Write and ask, or just send it on, to any of the usual addresses—we’ll be here!