Traveller/Awesome


Traveller is full of interesting CMoAs written into the sourcebooks. Here are some of them.

  • Merchant Prince Marc Oberlindes contrives to buy a battlecruiser from the Imperial government and recommission her as a freighter for traveling in Vargr territory. As this area is full of Space Pirates Oberlindes bribes several senior Navy personnel to "forget" to have the military grade weaponry on it removed before selling the hull for civilian use. With this the ship, now named the Emissary, Oberlindes Lines is capable of blowing the drek out of every pirate band in the sector.
    • Also an amusing moment of Rules Lawyer. When the Imperial government officially finds out that the 'decommissioned' battlecruiser still had its main armament they attempt legal action against Oberlindes... only to find out that they can't because unauthorized possession of Imperial naval weaponry is only a crime in Imperial space. And the Emissary is at present over the border in the Vargr Extents, sailing under Vargr registry, and Oberlindes has no intention to ever move it back over the Imperial border at any time.
    • At another time, Marc Oberlinde's son, Sergai, is held captive. Marc recruits a band of mercenaries to rescue him.
    • The Battleship Gram, a transport containing several divisions of soldiers and a few smaller ships are trapped when they hear the Earth government they were fighting for had been overthrown. In response they sail all the way through Aslan territory to found the Sword Worlds.
    • In Alien Races 4 a Bwap, a member of a race famous for its enthusiasm for bureaucracy, stops a mother with a baby in a line of tourists by claiming her ID was faulty. This causes a jam-up in the line behind her and diverts considerable attention, not to mention wrath. While everyone is busy arguing with the Bwap, Imperial police snipers sneak up on some terrorists in the line and catch them. Later the Bwap gives the mother part of his reward as recompense for the unwitting part she played in his Batman Gambit.
    • The whole Intersteller Wars; Planet Terra taking over the entire Vilani Imperium.
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