The Terran Trade Authority Roleplaying Game

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Roleplaying Game

FOREWORD

The seed of the Terran Trade Authority, and the future over which it presided, actually began to germinate more than ﬁfty years ago. In 1950s England there was a weekly boys publication called The Eagle. Part comic, part magazine, it featured a cartoon hero called Dan Dare, his sidekick Digby and his sleek spacecraft, Anastasia. His space adventures in pursuit of his nemesis the Mekon and superbly drawn by Frank Hampson, held me spellbound. To the 7 year old me, the boundary between ﬁction and reality blurred as I travelled with him among the stars. Each week, the magazine also included a minutely detailed cutaway drawing of some technological marvel…the steamship Queen Mary, The Empire State Building or the latest jet aircraft. In one issue, perhaps in editorial desperation, the center spread was a cutaway of the ﬁctional spacecraft Anastasia. There on the page I could see how the controls operated, how the engines were constructed, and even where spare helmets were kept. Suddenly, the future inhabited by the indomitable Dan Dare stepped across the fantasy/reality interface and burned a place in my mind forever. The years passed, the boy grew up and as events would have it, I found myself in the publishing business. My job was to conceive ideas for books, whip up support and ﬁnd authors or artists to turn them into live projects. On one business trip, I had time to kill at Heathrow airport and wandered around the bookstore. I stopped by a rack of SF paperbacks, intrigued by the quality and imagination of the cover art. The images pulled me right back in time. Here were the strange and wonderful craft that Dan Dare might have known from his identiﬁcation manual. If he’d had one. Throughout the rest of that trip, my mind was full of spectacular ships and distant star systems. On my return, I traced some of the artists whose work had gripped my imagination and in talking to them, the ﬁrst tender shoot of the TTA pushed towards the light. I began writing the identiﬁcation manual that should have existed. At ﬁrst it just detailed the ships my boyhood hero might have encountered, but I soon realised that they needed a context to explain their existence and, piece by piece, the Terran Trade Authority emerged. I have always had a magpie mind, attracted indiscriminately by the glitter of ideas new to me. From technology and astronomy to history and the mechanics of social evolution. Suddenly these disparate threads drew together in a hypothetical future. It was so clear in my mind that it was more a case of recording events than inventing them and in less than two furious months, the book was ﬁnished. The rest, as they say, is history. The success of the ﬁrst book led to others and with each title the story of the TTA expanded and ﬂourished. There were four books and eight spin-off projects including an abortive ﬁlm script between 1978 and about 1980. Perhaps it was the speed and intensity with which it took place, perhaps it was just creative burn-out, perhaps it was marriage, kids and mortgage, but eventually I felt I had no more to say, no places to go. For whatever reason, I began to feel that the ghosts in that distant boy’s mind had ﬁnally been exorcised. The TTA had acquired a life of its own and didn’t need me anymore. That was almost 25 years ago. I had created the TTA for myself, or rather for the small boy waiting excitedly by the door every Thursday. I really hadn’t thought about the fact that all those books must have gone somewhere, been read by someone. To my astonishment, I recently learned that the TTA was not just still alive but that others were willing to nurture and re-invigorate a dream that had faded from my mind. It’s a strange sensation to be re-introduced to a child made a stranger by distance and circumstances. I wasn’t certain how to feel at ﬁrst but out of the confusion came a sense of gratitude toward those whose enthusiasm and commitment will carry the TTA forward into an invigorated future. My thanks to them …and especially to you.

Stewart Cowley

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The Terran Trade Authority DEDICATION

Scott would like to dedicate this book to his wife Alison and 2 beautiful daughters; Hannah & Mhairi. Jeff would like to dedicate this project to his wonderful wife Masako, whose support and encouragement carried him through the tough times, and to Pam Bliss, my “big sis” and favorite writer, whose keen eye and constructive criticism were invaluable! Adrian would like to dedicate this work to his wife, Katinka, for all her patience, understanding, trust and support, and for understanding why, after more than 25 years, the TTA books can still make me act like an excited 12 year old boy!

TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER ONE: THE TTA UNIVERSE The Proxima War The Terran Trade Authority Timeline of the Future Alpha Centauri Sol Proxima Centauri

CHAPTER TWO: THE RULES Attributes Skills Combat Psi

CHAPTER THREE: SKILLS Quirks

CHAPTER FOUR: CHARACTER CREATION

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The Alphans The Proximans The Terrans Paths

185 216 246 264

CHAPTER FIVE: EQUIPMENT

283

CHAPTER SIX: SPACECRAFT & SPACE TRAVEL

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Spacecraft & Vehicle Rules Spacecraft Stats

331 353

CHAPTER SEVEN: GAMEMASTERING THE TTA

375

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