Freelance Traveller

May/Jun 2021	Department	Article Title	Author
	From the Editor		Jeff Zeitlin
	Featured Article
	Raconteurs Rest	Virtual Traveller 2020: An After Action Report	Timothy Collinson
	Critics Corner	Precinct 12	Jeff Zeitlin
		Cardboard Heroes	Ewan Quibell
		Players Guide to Solo Roleplaying	Jeff Zeitlin
		Off the Table: Fate of the Kinunir	Ewan Quibell
	Doing It My Way	Character Generation Rules: Native Foreigners: An Expanded Career for Barbarians	Michael Brown
		Factions as Characters	Paul Elliott
	The Shipyard	Designs for Traveller5: The Caladbolg System Defense Fleet	Art Gorski
		Naval Doctrine and Tech Level	Ken Pick
	Columns	Confessions of a Newbie Referee: #50: I Hate It	Timothy Collinson
	Kurishdam	Lecture Hall and Library: Vargr Iconography	Thomas Jones-Low
	In A Store Near You	[Stats for] Alka Shiriigi Personal Attendant Robot	Ewan Quibell (original article by Benedikt Schwarz)
	Multimedia Gallery	Twilight Stories #1: Port of Transit	Mike Cross

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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.