David--
By the way, I really like your letters of marque:
> Although I admit to allowing some trusted starmerc bands the possibility
> of having them as part of a Letter of Marque, even back in 1105. "Trusted"
> wasn't that onerous to prove either, since there was ALWAYS the threat of
> the real Impies coming down on you if you f---ed up:
> <http://members.tip.net.au/~davidjw/tavspecs/adifux/marque_a.htm>
>
> Here's a blank one:
> <http://members.tip.net.au/~davidjw/tavspecs/maint/marque.htm>
I had a long-running letter of marque campaign in my Traveller universe,
and often hoped to eventually publish it in some form. Think WW2 submarine
force at Pearl Harbor, with subs returning all the time with brooms lashed
to their periscopes. The NPC privateers were named things like Trout,
Trigger, Wahoo, Flasher, just to keep the flavor (I didn't play in 3I).
There were a lot of echoes of that sort of thing in the RC, with the
free-lancers, Auction and stuff, but we never got to go into that in the
level of detail that I would have liked.
Dave