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* SpikeShooter: Supplement ''Spacefarer's Guide to Alien Monsters''. The nailer is a porcupine-like alien creature that can fire its quills up to eight meters away.

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* SpikeShooter: Supplement ''Spacefarer's Guide to Alien Monsters''. Monsters''
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The nailer is a porcupine-like alien creature that can fire its quills up to eight meters away.
** The spinechucker is a four meter tall cactus-like plant which can shoot its spines up to 1 meter
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*** The sizzler is a two meter wide ball of black stone based on silicon which eats its way through rock.
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*** The shellslug is a three meter long slug that can spit acid up to ten meters away.
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*** The sharkoid is shaped like a fish and swims through the air, supported by multiple hydrogen-containing cells in its body.
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*** The saplin is a shellfish that can spit a poison that causes epilepsy-like symptoms.

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** ''Spacefarer's Guide to Alien Monsters''. The mante is an alien insect whose tissues are made of silicon. This makes its body extremely dense, and it is not affected by most weapons.

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The mante is an alien insect whose tissues are made composed of silicon. This makes its body extremely dense, and it is not affected by most weapons.
*** The rockrat's body tissues are based on silicon, which makes them immune to all physical attacks except energy
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* CreepyCentipedes
** Classic supplement ''Spacefarer's Guide to Alien Monsters''.

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CreepyCentipedes: Classic supplement ''Spacefarer's Guide to Alien Monsters''.


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** The phuolinc is a two meter long centipede that pounces on its prey and will attack any creature if it can achieve surprise.
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*** The nought is an alien owl that can spit a contact nerve poison at its foes.
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* SpikeShooter: Supplement ''Spacefarer's Guide to Alien Monsters''. The nailer is a porcupine-like alien creature that can fire its quills up to eight meters away.
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** ''Spacefarer's Guide to Alien Monsters''. The mante is an alien insect whose tissues are made of silicon. This makes its body extremely dense, and it is not affected by most weapons.
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*** The lanceballoon's body is an oval-shaped gasbag filled with helium, which allows it to float in the air. It has fins that look like sails to steer. The tentacles that hang down from it have embedded crystals that it uses to focus sunlight and use it as a weapon.

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*** The lanceballoon's body is an oval-shaped gasbag filled with helium, which allows it to float in the air. It has fins that look like sails to steer. The tentacles that hang down from it have embedded crystals prisms that it uses to focus sunlight and use it as a weapon. weapon.

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** ''Spacefarer's Guide to Alien Monsters''. The floater is an alien creature whose body is a bag containing hydrogen gas, which allows it to float through the air. It has electrically charged tentacles which descend below it. The tentacles stun any creatures they touch and drag them up to the floater to be eaten.

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** ''Spacefarer's Guide to Alien Monsters''. Monsters''
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The floater is an alien creature whose body is a bag containing hydrogen gas, which allows it to float through the air. It has electrically charged tentacles which descend below it. The tentacles stun any creatures they touch and drag them up to the floater to be eaten.eaten.
*** The lanceballoon's body is an oval-shaped gasbag filled with helium, which allows it to float in the air. It has fins that look like sails to steer. The tentacles that hang down from it have embedded crystals that it uses to focus sunlight and use it as a weapon.

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* LivingGasbag: The Luugiir in ''Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society'' #18, the Oegongong in ''Challenge'' magazine #27 and the muqath in Creator/FASA's ''Rescue on Galatea''.

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* LivingGasbag: The Luugiir in LivingGasbag
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*** #17 "Contact: The Jagd-II-Jagd": The Jagd-II-Jagd are an intelligent alien race that live in
the Oegongong atmospheres of gas giant planets. They have spherical bodies filled with a number of compartments. They absorb hydrogen and other gasses from the gas giant's atmosphere, store them in the compartments and use them for buoyancy and propulsion.
*** #18 "The Bestiary": The Luugiir are aliens who look like small hot air balloons . They convert sunlight into electricity and use it to obtain hydrogen from water. They store the hydrogen in their gas bag, which causes them to float in the air. They have a maneuvering jet that expels air and allows them to move in a specific direction.
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''Challenge'' magazine #27 "Bestiary": The adult Oegongong aliens use a biological form of electrolysis to generate hydrogen from seawater. They use it to fill the sacs on their back: when the sacs become huge and balloon-like they float into the muqath in Creator/FASA's air and travel over the land where they drop their eggs.
** Creator/{{FASA}}'s supplement
''Rescue on Galatea''.Galatea'': On the title planet lives an aquatic alien creature called the muqath, which is like a jellyfish with a shell. It has sacs filled with lighter-than-air gas that it uses for flight.
** ''Spacefarer's Guide to Alien Monsters''. The floater is an alien creature whose body is a bag containing hydrogen gas, which allows it to float through the air. It has electrically charged tentacles which descend below it. The tentacles stun any creatures they touch and drag them up to the floater to be eaten.

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*** The Covalen is a six-legged dragon-like alien creature that can spit a glue-like liquid up to ten meters away.

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*** The Covalen covalen is a six-legged dragon-like alien creature that can spit a glue-like liquid up to ten meters.
*** The eester is a fox-like alien that can spit strong acid up to five
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* CreepyCentipedes: Classic supplement ''Spacefarer's Guide to Alien Monsters''. The Crawler is a 4.8 meter long centipede which can move as fast as a human being and whose bite inflicts a deadly poison.

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The Crawler is a 4.8 meter long centipede which can move run as fast as a human being and whose bite inflicts a deadly poison.poison.
*** Drake's Centipede is 2.1 meters long, can sprint as quickly as a person, and has a BreathWeapon: a nausea-causing gas that can reach up to two meters away.
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* CreepyCentipedes: Classic supplement ''Spacefarer's Guide to Alien Monsters''. The Crawler is a 4.8 meter long centipede which can move as fast as a human being and whose bite inflicts a deadly poison.

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** Classic supplement ''Spacefarer's Guide to Alien Monsters''. The burnfrog can spit a nerve poison up to four meters away.

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** Classic supplement ''Spacefarer's Guide to Alien Monsters''. Monsters''
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The burnfrog can spit a nerve poison up to four meters away.
*** The Covalen is a six-legged dragon-like alien creature that can spit a glue-like liquid up to ten meters
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* SuperSpit: Classic adventure "Disappearance on Aramat". The Gratheudom (Dozer Beast) can spit an acid powerful enough to burn through body armor up to three meters away.

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Classic adventure "Disappearance on Aramat". The Gratheudom (Dozer Beast) can spit an acid powerful enough to burn through body armor up to three meters away.
** Classic supplement ''Spacefarer's Guide to Alien Monsters''. The burnfrog can spit a nerve poison up to four meters
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* RainbowMotif: According to Paranoia Press's Classic supplement ''Scouts & Assassins'', the insignia colors of Imperial Interstellar Scout Service personnel include red, orange, yellow, green, blue and indigo, in that order.
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* AdjectiveAnimalAlehouse
** Classic supplement ''Rogues in Space Volume II: Scam''. In the adventure "A Matter of Reputation", Sir John [=Macalasdair=]'s preferred restaurant is a high class place called The Rampant Lion.
** Classic supplement ''Port Xanatath''. The spaceport has a tavern called the Shimmering Worm.
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* ManlyFacialHair: Archduke Norris, the leader of the clearest "good" faction in the ''[=MegaTraveller=]'' illustrations has a seriously bushy mustache, while the assassinated emperor Strephon and his assassin Dulinor were both clean-shaven. The vilanous Lucan by contrast has a rather wsipy beard but no mustache.

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* ManlyFacialHair: Archduke Norris, the leader of the clearest "good" faction in the ''[=MegaTraveller=]'' illustrations has a seriously bushy mustache, while the assassinated emperor Strephon and his assassin Dulinor were both clean-shaven. The vilanous Lucan by contrast has a rather wsipy wispy beard but no mustache.
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* ManlyFacialHair: Archduke Norris, the leader of the clearest "good" faction in the ''[=MegaTraveller=]'' illustrations has a seriously bushy mustache, while the assassinated emperor Strephon and his assassin Dulinor were both clean-shaven. The vilanous Lucan by contrast has a rather wsipy beard but no mustache.
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* BadassMustache: Archduke Norris has a particularly impressive one, especially in his illustration in the ''New Era'' Regency sourcebook, where he let it grow out even more.

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* TheSixStats: Strength, Dexterity, Endurance, Intelligence, Education, and Social Standing. They are usually generated with a 2d6 roll, but can be boosted up to 15 for humans during character generation.

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* TheSixStats: Strength, Dexterity, Endurance, Intelligence, Intellect, Education, and Social Standing. They are usually generated with a 2d6 roll, but can be boosted up to 15 for humans during character generation.


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** The ''Traveller Companion'' includes rules for several optional stats, including Wealth, Luck, Morale, and Sanity, along with variant rules for Social Standing. Using them all would mean that characters could have as many as 11 stats.
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Corrected spelling of "Gully Foyle" from "The Stars My Destination".


** The first supplement in the original game, ''1001 Characters'', had stats for nine characters in the back that were "drawn from the pages of science fiction." They weren't named, but the background notes provided enough clues to guess who they were.[[note]]The nine characters were: [[Literature/JohnCarter John Carter of Mars]], [[Literature/{{Lensman}} Kimball Kinnison]], [[Creator/HarryHarrison Jason dinAlt]], [[Literature/DumarestOfTerra Earl Dumarest]], [[Literature/KnownSpace Beowulf Shaeffer]], [[Creator/AlexeiPanshin Anthony Villiers]], [[Literature/TechnicHistory Dominic Flandry]], [[Literature/TheDemonPrinces Kirth Girsen]], and [[Literature/TheStarsMyDestination Gully Floyle]].[[/note]]

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** The first supplement in the original game, ''1001 Characters'', had stats for nine characters in the back that were "drawn from the pages of science fiction." They weren't named, but the background notes provided enough clues to guess who they were.[[note]]The nine characters were: [[Literature/JohnCarter John Carter of Mars]], [[Literature/{{Lensman}} Kimball Kinnison]], [[Creator/HarryHarrison Jason dinAlt]], [[Literature/DumarestOfTerra Earl Dumarest]], [[Literature/KnownSpace Beowulf Shaeffer]], [[Creator/AlexeiPanshin Anthony Villiers]], [[Literature/TechnicHistory Dominic Flandry]], [[Literature/TheDemonPrinces Kirth Girsen]], and [[Literature/TheStarsMyDestination Gully Floyle]].Foyle]].[[/note]]
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* ExpandedUniverse: There has been suprisingly little of ''Traveller'' produced in other genres:
** Two ''[=MegaTraveller=]'' video games were released in the early '90s. To date these remain the only official ''Traveller'' video games, though some other games have obviously taken inspiration from ''Traveller'', such as the classic ''{{VideoGame/Elite}}''.
** There are a few unofficial ''Traveller'' novel series, such as Gregory P. Lee's ''The Laughing Lip'' and Jefferson Swycraft's ''Concordant'' series, both of which acknowledged their inspiration in ''Traveller'' but don't officially take place within the universe of the Third Imperium.
** The first licensed ''Traveller'' novels were published during ''The New Era'' edition in the mid-'90s. Two books of a planned trilogy called ''The Death of Wisdom'' were published before GDW shut down. Interestingly, there are two entirely different versions of the third book written by two different authors are now available.
** The heavy metal band "The Lord Weird Slough Feg" produced a ConceptAlbum called ''Traveller'' based on the game.
** Mongoose Publishing has published some official ''Traveller'' short fiction along with its second edition of teh game. Some of the stories are set-ups for the "Pirates of Drinax" campaign, while others are stand-alone short-stories.
** Designer Marc Miller published his first novel, ''Agent of the Imperium'' in 2015. It is the only officially licensed full-length ''Traveller'' novel published since ''The Death of Wisdom'' trilogy in the '90s mentioned above.
** The ''Traveller CCG'' was published in 2018 after a successful Kickstarter. It has received a few expansions.
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* {{Privateer}}: Goes with SpacePirates, of course.

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* {{Privateer}}: Goes together with having SpacePirates, of course.



** One of the goals of the ''Pirates of Drinax'' campaign is to restor the old Sindal Empire, which has issued the players a Letter of Marque. This will retroactively make the Travellers privateers rather than SpacePirates.

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** One of the goals of the ''Pirates "Pirates of Drinax'' Drinax" campaign is to restor restore the old Sindal Empire, which has issued Empire with Drinax as the players new capital. The King of Drinax issues the Travellers a Letter of Marque. This Marque and a spaceship that can be used as a commerce raider to start things off. If they succeed in forcing the major players in the sector to recognize Drinax's authority as legitimate this will retroactively make the Travellers legitimate privateers in the service of the Crown rather than SpacePirates.dirty SpacePirates that anyone can execute if they catch them.

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** The Third Imperium officially reserves to itself the right to issue letters of Marque and only occasionally issues them. Member substates and power blocks sometimes hire space mercenaries but these are not supposed to depend on plunder for their upkeep. When exactly that rule is violated is rather blurry. It probably depends on what the local Imperial Noble considers appropriate to the interests of the Imperium and/or himself.
** One of the goals of the ''Pirates of Drinax'' campaign is to restor the old Sindal Empire, which has issued the players a Letter of Marque. This will retroactively make the Travellers privateers rather than SpacePirates.

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* AutoKitchen: The Classic game ''Azhanti High Lightning'', Adventure 2 ''Research Station Gamma'' and Judges Guild adventure ''Darthanon Queen''. The kitchens/galleys in these products have fully automated food preparation equipment.

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The Classic game ''Azhanti High Lightning'', Adventure 2 ''Research Station Gamma'' and Judges Guild adventure ''Darthanon Queen''. The kitchens/galleys in these products have fully automated food preparation equipment.equipment.
** Classic Adventure "Disappearance on Aramat". The old Vilani base on Aramat has "food synthesizing units" that can create nutritious and edible food for human visitors.
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* SuperSpit: Classic adventure "Disappearance on Aramat". The Gratheudom (Dozer Beast) can spit an acid powerful enough to burn through body armor up to three meters away.

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