Solomani could not arrest the decline of vilani culture. We will be using mongoose traveller 2nd edition with characters rolled up together in the first 2 sessions so we can link backgrounds and storylines together. Most alien races are ok so vilani, solomani, aslan, vargr, zhodani, darrian and other written up minor races are acceptable. By 990 the garrison consisted of the 763rd imperial batron trokh. The vilani are the oldest and most common branch of humanity. Traveller started out as a generic sciencefiction rpg, and steadily evolved a setting through the late 70s and 80s. Unfortunately, what was intended to be a series of trials for the stormshadow suddenly turns into a sixjump patrol and what should have been a simple patrol uncovers a conspiracy that might burn down the entire solomani rim. Esperance solomani rim 2651120 fullscale imperial intervention began today on this wartorn world. While the solomani is a confederation of memberstates, each of which maintain their own military, the largest and potent military is maintained by the terrans. Only three of them discovered jump drive on their own. The word solomani has several different meaning including. Ludmillasolomani rim 2751120 after several rounds of talks, a legal agreement has been reached involving the government of ludmilla, the vegan tuhuir ewm shao gwi, and the imperium. The site also provides services for generating custom maps and apis for incorporating maps into other sites. Megatraveller product listing rpgnet rpg game index.
Digest group publications dgp waynes books rpg reference. Human major race homo sapiens sapiens that evolved on terra from those members of homo sapiens antiquus that the ancients left behind when they spread humaniti among the stars around 300,000 a member of the solomani movement see below the term solomani is often used interchangeably to refer. Editing and compiling megatraveller writing book 8, robots contributions to challenge magazine development assistance on 2300ad development assistance on alien module 8, darrians address from the back of 101. There are free pdf files all over the zhodani base that you can download. One of my treasured traveller possessions from the 1980s, alongside the imperium poster and spinward marches map, is an original copy of third imperium, no. Telling also of the authorities they wield against men, and by what angels these demons are brought to naught. Adventurers in the solomani rim can venture through solomani territory to iaheako dark nebula sector, which holds the aslan homeworld of kusyu. One of them was dark nebula, a prototraveller warboardgame with the solomani terran nationalists set up against the aslan felid aliens with a samurai flavour over an area of space on the border between these two polities. The ludmillan government will take no further steps to nationalize vegan business interests on ludmilla, and will provide the same protection and service to vegan ships as to any others. The stuff that doesnt touch the 3i hasnt been defined other than whats in the t5 rulebook, excepting, as noted, the core expeditions reach. Aslan traveller alien module 1 pdf free download epdf. Included are variant solomani character creation rules and considerable background on the solomani and their quasifascist state.
Wood ive reconstructed the dotmaps for missing sectors in aslan space far spinrimward from dgps solomani and aslan, plus the sector theron. Imperial fleets along the solomani border moved back to a more defensible line, and the solomani gobbled up whole sectors at the first opportunity. Most aslan reside in the aslan hierate, but many reside within the third imperium as imperial aslan. It is a time when interstellar travel has become possible and humaniti has met other starfaring races. The zhodani, the aslan, and the vargr are all present in the spinward marches. This is my entry in the reddit competition to design a 100dton scout ship any design rules. The main rules were detailed in three such booklets, sold as a boxed set while the same format was used for early support material, such as the adventures, supplements and further books. These general threads have been a very positive find.
Testament of solomon, son of david, who was king in jerusalem, and mastered and controlled all spirits of the air, on the earth, and under the earth. Including new careers, equipment and vehicles, alien module 1 also delves into their ship construction and features an entirely new sector to expand. May 03, 2020 imperial security personnel notice that a lot of prosolomani groups and more than a few powerful solomani movers and shakers start shipping huge amounts of xxxxx from all corners of the imperium and beyond. Solomani cynics claimed this gesture was motivated more by concern for the lanthanum mines rather than the aslan inhabitants. The aslan of kusyu dark nebula 1226 are a major race. Watermarked pdf the aslan are revealed as never before in this mighty 200 page tome. The solomani maintain a large and potent military composed of an army, navy, marines, home guard, and policing paramilitary forces.
The aslans have been described at about the same time as the chanur novels was written. Traveller is an origins award winning science fiction roleplaying game published by game designers workshop in 1977. And a few are known to dwell within the solomani confederation as solomani aslan or elsewhere. Knightfalls roleplaying game collection list page 2. The biology, homeworlds, culture, and society of the fierce aslan and the centauroid kkree are examined in detail.
This is a page to collect them all so that you can download them for free. An insectoid race scattered across the imperium like so many gypsies, the seemingly insignificant droyne often fall beneath the notice of alen. I went with the gurps spaceships ruleset which is an abstract design system that divides a ship up into twenty slots and various systems are then plugged in fuel, engines, crew accommodations and so forth. Jan 09, 2018 if the aslan load up on heavy combat units and charge maadin, fangs out and hair on fire, the solomani need something in the way to slow them down. The solomani rim isnt a great melting pot of alien races like the frontier sectors though the aslan and the hivers are both pretty near, but it does offer a great story. The solomani came first as conquerors, then as administrators, and their establishment in positions of power lasted well past the end of the rule of man. Publisher of supplements for traveller and megatraveller. It is difficult to guess what cross contamination that has occurred. Consolidated megatraveller errata far future enterprises. This game is also contained in classic traveller on cdrom and the travellers aid society alien encyclopedia. Aslan humanity is only one of thousands of life forms which have chosen intelligence as their way of dealing with the u. The aslan are revealed as never before in this mighty 200 page tome. The stormshadow is a new solomani confederation ship, captained by the.
Even though that might seem like a scifi cliche, the aslans are well described and would probably work well in an atu with only some minor changes. Editing and compiling megatraveller writing book 8, robots contributions to challenge magazine development assistance on 2300ad development assistance on alien module 8, darrians. Imperial security personnel notice that a lot of prosolomani groups and more than a few powerful solomani movers and shakers start shipping huge amounts of xxxxx from all corners of the imperium and beyond. The first of the traveller alien modules, dealing with the feline aslan and their. The original gamebooks were distinctive digestsized black pamphlets the socalled little black books produced by game designers workshop gdw. A whole host of interesting questions start cropping up. Thus, at this point, i am missing only the atlas of the imperium i dont count the poster or binder below and ill get starter traveller someday. All aslan eventually find a deep psychological need to form aslan clans, send out ihatei expeditions, and, to put it simply, be aslan. This list concentrates on ship names in terran languages or galanglic, if you wish, on the grounds that automated word generators for vilani, vargr, aslan, and other likely languages are out there. At that point the vilani had enjoyed space flight for nearly 7,000 years, and had a starspanning empire which had endured for millennia.
Rules for solomani characters and sample solomani confederation starships. On the ct cd there were also the various traveller boardgames, in pdf format. Over the last couple of generations, the solomani confederation has been slowly absorbing the quadrant, leading to a threeway power struggle. By means of them also he wrought all the transcendent works of the temple. Including new careers, equipment and vehicles, alien module 1 also delves into their ship construction and features an entirely new sector to expand your playing area beyond the spinward marches the trojan reaches.
The most common nonhumans species are the wolflike vargr, lionlike aslan, starfishlike hivers, centaurlike kkree and small winged droyne. Solomani and aslan with the help of an awesome tool by john g. Players manual 0211, referees manual 0212, imperial. Others include the solomani of terra earth, the psionic zhodani rivals of the imperium, and many more. They also published the magazines travellers digest and megatraveller journal.
Those who were left behind were the solomani and when they finally achieved jump travel, found the worlds around them already populated it was the solomani who toppled the vilani imperium, established the rule of man and brought on the long night. Including new careers, equipment and vehicles, alien module 1 also delves into their ship construction and features an entirely new sector to expand your playing area beyond the spinward marches. As of this writing, i recommend james robinsons jamess traveller word generators, located at. If the aslan load up on heavy combat units and charge maadin, fangs out and hair on fire, the solomani need something in the way to slow them down. The stormshadow is a new solomani confederation ship, captained by the disgraced lieutenant simon crowe. Admiral sir kristian sandkvist, commanding the 1295th colonial fleet in system, announced that his office had uncovered credible evidence of biological warfare against the forces of waothan, using a genetically engineered virus. Aslan, kkree, and other races rimward of the imperium. The quadrant was created in 119, during the latter stages of the aslan border wars, as a loose alliance against the real threat of aslan invasion. An interactive map of the universe of the traveller role playing game, incorporating official data and fan submissions. The setting has come to dominate the system, with four different versions of the original system released, and four different releases that are adaptations of other systems to the traveller universe. The solomani confederation, and the ironfisted solsec that keeps the populace in line. Tekhukhauleatealrao an understrength squadron of timarinclass battleridersand the 354th lift infantry field army, drawn largely from duurmurze. The aslan hunger for territory has carried them out from. Solomani of terra, vilani of vland, and the zhodani of zhdant.