Freelance Traveller

Sept/Oct 2026	Department	Article Title	Author
	From the Editor		Jeff Zeitlin
	Theme Issue: The Fifth Frontier War
	Critics' Corner	Ashfall	Jeff Zeitlin
		A Plague of Perruques	Ewan Quibell
		Secrets of the Ancients	Steve Hatherley
		The Fifth Frontier War: Fleets of the Minor Powers	Ewan Quibell
	The Prep Room	Traveller - A Package from a Dark, Cold Grave	Dom Mooney
	Active Measures	Getting Off the Ground: A Perfidious Betrayal	David Johnson
		Getting Off the Ground: Race on Rhylanor	Ewan Cummins
	Raconteurs' Rest	The Astoundingly True Tale of José Fabuloso [Chapter 23]	Jo Jaquinta
		After-Action Report: TravCon (UK) 2026	Timothy Collinson
	Kurishdam	Lecture Hall and Library: Thequzievl, the Psionic Games	Tom Bladon
		Lecture Hall and Library: Jump Destination: Dawns	Richard Perks
	Columns	Confessions of a Newbie Referee: #82: A Little Bit More	Timothy Collinson
	Multimedia Gallery	The Pirates of Drinax Graphic Stories: #18: Graveyard of Ships	Joe Adams
	Doing It My Way	Abusing the Jump Drive: Time Travelling	Jeffrey Schwartz

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From the Editor

I can’t say that I’m finally back on schedule with the magazine; this issue is still a week later than I’d have preferred. However, I think I may have “turned the corner”, and if the weather doesn’t persist in enervating me, and if the day job (that pays for my life, including being able to put out Freelance Traveller) stays relatively calm, maybe the light at the end of the tunnel isn’t an oncoming train.

That said, one thing that helped was that people sent in a good mix of articles at good sizes. This meant that I didn’t have to scramble to find old enough reprints to fill space, and no section was positioned to overwhelm the issue. To all my contributors, thank you, and I hope people will continue to exercise their imaginations, and send in the products thereof.

There are still several sections that could use some submissions, “Less Dangerous Game” and “Fascinating Flora” notably among them. I’d also like to see more adventures, and more reviews from people other than Paul Anuni and I. One special request: If you’re involved in actually organizing and running a gaming convention, I wouldn’t mind an article about it, and what’s involved in making it happen, from start to finish.

I’m going to briefly step away from Freelance Traveller in this half-page of blather, and note that both Europe and the eastern USA have been experiencing record heat as I “go to press”. Please take this as a reminder to stay hydrated, and to rehydrate as often as possible, and (to the extent possible) stay where the heat isn’t so severe (or the temperature is controlled, as with air conditioning).