What is Chandra's background on the hire?

Chandra waves from the top of the ramp, and calls out: "Lt Chandra Gupta, Imperial Navy lately engineer on the Douglas Quinn ." Sigrun turns and offers the engineer a reprise of the full eye contact and crushing handshake greeting she issued to her other new male colleagues. She gives Cha...

Ok, should we purchase our own vacc suit? There will be vacc suits aboard the yacht, so you don't need to buy one now. You might want to buy one later, though. At the moment, armor, weapons and personal gear...maybe a hand computer and comm unit...is all you really need to buy. Ok, then he shouldn'...

Chandra waves from the top of the ramp, and calls out: "Lt Chandra Gupta, Imperial Navy lately engineer on the Douglas Quinn."

Should I purchase equipment? Any restrictions on such? What sorts of stuff is available beyond Book 1 and Book 3 (or The Traveller Book)? All Book 1-3 and/or The Traveller Book equipment is available. From Book 4 personal weaponry exists, but is hard/impossible to acquire. You can refer to http://j...

Lt. Chandra Gupta will walk up the ramp with his baggage. He will wave at the crew overseeing the provisioning.

Should I purchase equipment? Any restrictions on such? What sorts of stuff is available beyond Book 1 and Book 3 (or The Traveller Book)?

Ok, Str 8 Dex 7 End 11 Int 10 Edu 4 Soc 7 Enlist Navy (8+1) Survive (9+2) Commission (9 no) Two rolls on the Advanced Education Table - Engineering-2 Re-enlist (9) Survive (7+1) Commission (11) Promotion (11 Lieutenant) 1 roll of Service Skills Dagger-1, 2 rolls on Advanced Education Mechanic-1, Gun...

Likewise! :) And Hello to all! My Traveller experience was a hugely enjoyable and long running Spinward Marches mercenary based campaign set against the background of the Fifth Frontier War. We adopted the AHL/Striker combat system as it meshed better with a campaign with a strong military thread. ...

Looks like I too can now post here... I started playing RPGs in 1977 with Holmes Basic D&D. Eventually I found Traveller, but didn't get too serious about an SFRPG until sometime after 1980. My first real Traveller campaign actually started using hacked up Rune Quest rules... After one session, ...

Thanks for the welcome. Looks like lots of fun gaming here.

Frank

Eris invited me to join his Traveller game here, so I thought I'd introduce myself here first since I can't yet post in his game... I've been role playing since fall of 1977 when my best friend got the Holmes Basic D&D set for his birthday. Eventually I got the OD&D boxed set and eventually ...