Expanded article on Earth system.
Until recently, Earth was dominated by a vast computer network called the "Virtuality". Over the centuries, hundreds of billions of people uploaded their minds into this "life after death". Eventually, living people came to be a minority who were largely …
1919 A767957-C, pop=3b, F5IV white subgiant
Expanded details about Procyon.
Procyon-Ac is a rocky planet in the habitable zone of Procyon-A, about 2AU from its star. Its oceans are home to cyanobacteria which have given the world an oxygen atmosphere, but there are no higher forms of native life …
View comments more ...This is the second part of my article on Ad Astra space drives. Part 1 is here. Today, TL9 - TL11.
The perfection of deuterium/tritium fusion rockets revolutionises space travel. It is finally possible for a shuttle to take off from Earth, fly to the …
Ad Astra space travellers are forced to use somewhat more realistic space drives than in "traditional" Traveller. Even with antimatter, high-tech interstellar craft typically take a week to travel to or from the jump point. Without antimatter, travel times stretch into months.
I've updated my Traveller ship design spreadsheet to …
View comments more ...I've been working on "Ad Astra", a space opera campaign for Traveller. I thought I'd publish a bit of the background information... it'll be useful for potential players, and I relish feedback from my critical friends.
First up, Earth...
http://blog.firetree.net/2015/10/27/earth-ii/
To understand the …
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Orange jungle, forest, savannah, desert, tundra
The Long Republic (Langerepublik) is a huge German-speaking state that grew out of the human colony world called "Weg" (The Road). Weggers live as nomads, constantly on …
This is a very basic timeline for the Ad Astra universe.
2037 first dying person Uploaded.
2042 first commercial fusion reactor.
2054 first permanently manned moon base.
2066 first asteroid mining mission completed.
2093 asteroid belt population reaches 1 million.
2104 The United Nations declares that environmental collapse on Earth …
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The Xa-Imperium as it is today.
When humanity first ventured to the stars, the Xa-Imperium was much larger than it is today. The Esperanzan Commonwealth has seized the Corridor branch. To spinward, the Long Republic - another human state - has pushed them back almost to Xa-Xa (1615), their home world. To …
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The Corridor, from Esperanza to Gateway.
The Corridor was originally a backwater - a branch off the Main, controlled by the Xa Imperium. When humans colonised Esperanza (1518) and then Bessel (1417), the Xa incorporated them into their empire. Soon, however the Esperanzans rebelled, and over nearly four centuries of warfare …
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The Corridor, from Esperanza to Gateway.
Esperanza is a gas giant moon in the Epsilon Indi system. It was colonised many centuries ago, in the second wave of sub-light exploration from Earth. Esperanza's native flora is typically blue-coloured, although many Earth species have been successfully introduced - especially …
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