Using Traveller: 2300 1st Edition from Game Designers’ Workshop (1986).
Yes, I have the very first edition from the time before GDW changed the name to 2300 AD. I bought it because I thought—like many others in the day did—that this was the new edition of Traveller with a more hard sci-fi setting. Instead we found a very different game and core game engine…
…and I loved it. Still do, as a matter of fact.
Ryu Chang-du aka ‘Chad’
Chad hails from Earth and the Korean Peninsula. In a somewhat typical career progression, Chad started life in the Interface forces before becoming a journalist. He now works down the French Arm as a freelancer, occasionally providing “security” services in exchange for passage to his next story.
Interestingly, in the “Political Geography” chapter of the Player’s Manual one cannot find Korea. There is a line in the Japan entry which reads, “During the 21st century, Japan attempted an economic domination of Korea, but was expelled by Manchuria…” (p. 12). Manchuria, part of a balkanized China, is listed as covering, “northern China, plus Tibet and western China” (p. 12). I guess I need to dig into the available data from The Game that GDW staff played to map out the history between Twilight: 2000 and Traveller: 2300 as well as later supplements.
Feature image courtesy RMN
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