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G U R P S® Traveller®

Planetary Survey 3

THE PIRATE PARADISE

By Salvatore T. Falco

Based on the award-winning

Traveller science .fiction universe

by Marc Miller

Edited by Andrew Hackard and Steve Jackson

Additional material by Loren Wiseman

Cover by Jesse DeGraff

Illustrated by Paul Daly

Additional illustrations by Jesse DeGraff,

and Allen Nunis

Maps by Andy Akins,

Alex Fernandez, and Heather Oliver

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Planetary Map

IFC

Introduction

IISS Data - Granicus /

Glirnrnerdrift Reaches

Chapter 1: Granicus

Chapter 2: Society

Chapter 3: Pirate Cartels

Chapter 4: ExtrasteUar Relations

.. 24

Chapter 5: Characters

Index

Worlds Within Jump-6

Jump-6 Map

IEC

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Introduction

When your ship's smaller than the target, you can't beat it

down before you board - you swoop in, grab the goods, and get

back out, dodging fire the whole time. Usually that works. This

time, it didn't. That son-of-a-Vargr on the Fortune's Hope knocked

out the Talon's jump engines as soon as we got within range. At

that point, we knew we had to take the Hope if we wanted to get

out alive.

We knew it was bad when the Captain suited up. Everyone

crammed into our two breaching pods, and we launched for the

Hope while the Talon zipped around on automated evasive

maneuvers. I don't know how our pod made it through that cross-

fire - the other was gone as soon as it hit space - but Captain

Kremkau brought us in right over the Hope's bridge and started

the pod chewing through her armor.

Most people don't know what it's like to wait even one minute,

without moving, without talking. Now try waiting ten - knowing

people are lining up just outside the door, waiting for the chance

to be a hero at your expense, and not a damn thing you can do

about it.

As soon as the pod doors burst open, our second mate jumped

through the jagged opening and hurled a grenade, buying us our

only chance with her life. It blew a hole in the deck, but it also

took out halfa dozen ofthe Hope's crew and stopped the barrage

offire long enough to give us a chance. We spilled out and started

cutting them down.

I guess we were more desperate than them, because even

though they outnumbered us, we drove them offthe bridge in only

a few minutes. Then we pushed them back until they realized that

continuing to fight was pointless. They surrendered, so we gave

them a lifeboat. The ship was ours.

Of course, the first thing we did once we'd transferred all our

stuff off the Talon was to take the Hope to Granicus. We fenced

her cargo to get her ready to go back out. The Captain bought

papers that said she had always been ours, and had always been

named the Sun Conure. Now we were ready to do some real

damage .. ."

- Sam Terranova, Three Years on the Conure

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Salvatore T. Falco was born in New Jersey, and was transplant-

ed to Florida when he was eight years old. As far back as he can

remember, he has imagined new worlds of his own creation, vastly

preferring those worlds to the real thing. He started playing role-

playing games at 12, with the boxed version of Dungeons &

Dragons. He stumbled onto Traveller a few years later, and still

can't believe how fortunate he is to have the opportunity to add his

personal touch to the setting. He started playing GURPS in 1989,

while he was a student at the University of South Florida. There he

received a bachelor's degree in history, a master's degree in litera-

ture, and the nickname "Sam." He's now the senior technical

writer for a software company. When not hunched over a table

rolling dice and quoting Monty Python, his hobbies include ball-

room and Latin dance, playing guitar, and posting to Pyramid

newsgroups as "Pope Oeneus." He lives in Palm Harbor, Florida.

INTRODUCTION

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IISS DATA - GRANICDS/GLIMMERDRIFf REACHES

Granicus orbits a G4 star (Bucephalas) in the

Travel Advisory: There have been reports of

Glimmerdrift Reaches Sector, located at 0520.

marauders near the Granicus system, and for this

Granicus is the main world of the system, and has

reason, the Imperial Navy, the IISS, and the TAS

•

the only significant settlement, as well as a Class

have declared an amber travel zone rating for

V starport and (unusually) several Class IV and

Granicus outside of Duval Downport - travelers

•

lower starports.

are urged to avoid Granicus proper, due to the

All worlds in the system are owned by

unstable political climate and the prevalence of

the Federation of Heron, but the Federation

organized crime. Imperial citizens have been ille-

gaRy detained, robbed, and even assaulted while

administers only two directly: Flit (an admini

tive center) and Granicus. The ~ r

. n

avy

on- 1

1 ~essels passing through the system

handles system defense, thou

loe

independent

are urged to b

alert for ships with unusual or

merchants have been kn@w

pa e

D nfunctioning transponders.

necessary. Refueling is ~ed at

thre

' ber ratings

a e also been assigned to

giants in the system.

ridan and C

l@k

and to other worlds in

•

The Federation allow

hi an

,e'

Reaches sectors.

course for the most part. T

ontinents are

'ghly

Planet

lameter·

,823 miles, density 4.9.

developed; the others are settle

sely or

Gravity:

not at all. The Federation operates and main'

tmosphere: Oxygen/nitrogen with a pressure

sophisticated system of communications satellites.

of 0.981.

Hydrographic Percentage: 70% surface

There are no permanent non-Human settlements

on Granicus, though it is becoming more common

coverage, some tied up in polar caps.

Population: 25 million (an estimate - neither

for Vargr vessels to take shore leave here.

Starports: Granicus' Class V starport has

the Federation nor any local body has carried out a

orbital and surface components, built by the native

proper census).

Government: Balkanized. There are dozens of

government and now operated by the Federation.

The surface facility is located in Duval, the plan-

city- and nation-states which belong to a unicam-

et's capital. The boundary is fenced and equipped

eral global parliament called the Granicus World

with optical and motion sensors, but it is not

League, but the League is highly unstable and has

patrolled and the sensors are frequently inopera-

very little in the way of sovereign powers. Local

tive. All ground traffic out of the starport must

business interests exercise great influence over the

pass through customs and registration, but

World League.

Control Rating: CR 4 - every city-state has its

enforcement is lax. Duval handles passengers but

•

primarily serves as the only legal port for freight,

own set of laws, usually substantially different from

•

both imports and exports.

those of their neighbors. Enforcement, however,

Herm Starport is a Class IV facility with a

tends to be lax, if not actually corrupt. Visitors are

•

ground component only. Its perimeter is also

urged to follow the natives' lead as to what is and is

fenced and guarded, but this is more a safety mea-

not acceptable. Note that weapons have a CR of 2 -

sure than an attempt to control ground traffic.

it is both legal and customary for adults to go

Another Class IV facility is under construction at

armed. Laws vary from place to place; non-

Varios, but will not be ready for several more

Granicans who travel between city-states should

years. Several other major cities have smaller

read up on the local regulations well before arrival!

facilities that are used mostly for intraworld

Tech Level: TLIO. Industrial capacity is

freight and travel.

primarily focused on shipbuilding and repair.

END 'TRANSMISSION -

Gravity

Hydrographic %

Population

Diameter

Atmosphere

Climate

Notes

Furnace (0.488 AU)

Sparta (0.838 AU)

Granicus (1.188 AU)

Flit (I .888 AU)

1,000

0.07

None

Uninhab.

2,900

0.19

None

Uninhab.

9,800

1.09

O-N

70%

Chilly

25 mill.

500

5,900

0.55

Exotic

45%

Uninhab.

Heron outpost

Gas giant, 14 moons

Gas giant, 12 moons

Gas giant, 15 moons

Antandrus (6.088 AU)

Iskander (11.688 AU)

Salix (22.888 AU)

75,000

1.20

Corrosive

Uninhab.

55,000

1.25

Corrosive

Uninhab.

•

50,000

1.14

Corrosive

Uninhab.

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