Cepheus Journal Issue #004 is here.
Welcome to issue #004 of the Cepheus Journal, the thickest issue yet at 56 pages. In this issue, many settings are represented: Historical, Modern and Science Fiction.
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Solomani Rim rotated
Solomani Rim rotated 90 degrees CW
Solomani Rim Sector rotated 90 degrees, so that it matches many other maps which has the coreward direction to the right.
Also added are:
The Local Interstellar Cloud and other nearby clouds. (blue)
The Strömberg Sphere for Sirius and 40 Eridani. (purple)
The Scorpius–Centaurus Association or the Sco OB2 in the lower right corner. (purple)
These Clouds can also be seen at the Galaxy Map site.
10 pc Map
6000 pc Map
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Version: 1.1
Published: February 9, 2021
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State of the Base
2020, that was a crazy year. I got Covid-19, but I was lucky and was sick for only three weeks.
What has happened at The Base in 2020? A lot of things (and some things that I hadn’t planned to do), but not as much as I had hoped!
Highlights
The Zhodani Base now has reached over 960 fans at facebook.
I made two starship fonts:
The old Signal GK website (with Classic Character and Animal Generators) was reopened.
Cepheus Journal, a new fanzine was created by the Cepheus Journal Editorial Team with the help of lots of article submissions.
I made a Random Starship Generator.
Site Stats
The Zhodani Base has about 5200 proper visitors each month. That is a bit better than last year.
The 5 most popular posts on the blog were:
- Judges Guild and Fryxgames (new)
- Create Your own Hex maps (4)
- Spinward Marches upside down (1)
- Spherical Space Ships (5)
- What makes a subsector popular? (new)
The 5 most popular pages on the blog were:
- Generators (3)
- Free pdf-files (1)
- Random Subsector Generator (2)
- Maps and Data (4)
- Amber Zone (5)
The 5 most popular search words/phrases for finding the blog were:
- traveller rpg blog (1)
- zhodani base (2)
- traveller rpg pdf (4)
- traveller rpg (3)
- traveller game pdf (new)
To-do List
My to-do-list has not changed a lot since last year. But I did some other cool things for Traveller and CE in 2020 instead.
- Run an Amber Zone contest this year. (Let’s do this again.)
- Write reviews of Science Fiction books and Traveller Products. (I have a huge backlog.)
- Repost some more stuff from the defunct Traveller Freeport website.
- Post season 3 of the The adventures of Starship Notorious.
- Publish the Cepheus Sector.
- Change theme to make it look more like the Amber Zone website.
- Do something when the number of facebook followers reaches 1000.
- Publish Cepheus Störtebeker.
- Work with Cepheus Journal.
- Continue with CE generated sectors.
Zhodani Base Awards 2020
Welcome to the Zhodani Base Awards 2020! 2020 has been a strange year. For Traveller products it was another good year. Lots of new stuff from the small publishers (and Mongoose).
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The first category is “Best Cover“. The nominees are:
- The Sword of Cepheus : from Stellagama Publishing
- Colonial Freighter : from Zozer Games
- Star Battles: Space Map Bundle : from Jon Brazer Enterprises
- Cepheus Journal Issue #002 : from Cepheus Journal
The winner of the “Best Cover” category of the Zhodani Base Awards 2020 is: Star Battles: Space Map Bundle from Jon Brazer Enterprises.
There were lots of Traveller products with nice covers this year. Lots of love for all nice covers. An image with a starship and hexes was a perfect cover for a product like this.
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Next category is “Best Fanzine or Online Magazine“. The nominees are:
The winner of the “Best Fanzine/Online Magazine” category of the Zhodani Base Awards 2020 is: Freelance Traveller.
Freelance Traveller has once again proved that they are the best fanzine by publishing bimestrial issues with lots of good contents for free.
Freelance Traveller has won this category every year since 2011!
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Next category is “Best Adventure“. The nominees are:
- Smuggler’s Doom : from Parts Per Million
- The Zero Gravity Olympics : from Old School Role Playing
- Skandersvik : from Mongoose
- The Mystery of Woden’s Eye : from Jonesing 4 Games
The winner of the “Best Adventure” category of the Zhodani Base Awards 2020 is: Skandersvik from Mongoose.
There were lots of fine Traveller Adventures for different settings published. This year, Skandersvik was the most interesting one.
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Next category is “Best Ship or Deckplan“. The nominees are:
- Colonial Freighter : from Zozer Games
- Opportunity-class Light Trader : from Independence Games
- Independence Armed Freighter : from Moon Toad Publishing
- Kalevala Class Small Pickets : from Surreal Estate Games
The winner of the “Best Ship or Deckplan” category of the Zhodani Base Awards 2020 is: Colonial Freighter from Zozer Games.
There were lots of fine ships for Traveller published this year. Colonial Freighter was the coolest and most inspiring design.
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Next category is “Best ATU Product“. The nominees are:
- Modern War : from Zozer Games
- The Sword of Cepheus : from Stellagama Publishing
- Moon : from Felbrigg Herriot
- Godstar : from Zozer Games
The winner of the “Best ATU Product” category of the Zhodani Base Awards 2020 is: The Sword of Cepheus from Stellagama Publishing.
This category always make me happy since you can always find so many cool ideas and useful books.
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Next category is “Best OTU Product“. The nominees are:
- The Book of Small Craft : from Tim Price, Ian Stead
- Generation X : from Timothy Collinson
- Aliens of Charted Space Vol. 2 : from Mongoose
- Skandersvik : from Mongoose
The winner of the “Best OTU Product” category of the Zhodani Base Awards 2020 is: Aliens of Charted Space Vol. 2 from Mongoose.
Mongoose continues to churn out good quality products for the OTU.
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A final bonus category this year is “Best Free or Pay What You Want Traveller Product“. The nominees are:
- Modern War – Gun Conversion : from Zozer Games
- The Zero Gravity Olympics : from Old School Role Playing
- Boarding Action : from Old School Role Playing
- Apocalypse : from Old School Role Playing
The winner of the “Best Free or Pay What You Want Traveller Product” category of the Zhodani Base Awards 2020 is: The Zero Gravity Olympics from Old School Role Playing.
There were a lot of great free products this year. In 2020, I have seen lots of questions about futuristic sports. This years winner may answer some of these questions.
Now, go and download all of the free Traveller Products. Why? They are free!
Cepheus Journal Issue #003
Cepheus Journal Issue #003 is here. The theme for this issue is the Closest Stars. There is an article about Alpha Centauri and another one about Tau Ceti. There is also an article about Vega Subsector about a number of nearby worlds, based on the Near Stars map from Stellagama Publishing.
Free pdf about Navigation
Traffic Control and Navigation
Interesting document by Neil Lucock about navigation and relative speed and the consequences of that.
Traveller assumes that when exiting a jump a starship preserves the speed and direction it had when it left the previous system.
If our ship is in Earth orbit, we have to remember that Earth is going around the sun at 107,000 kilometers an hour. The target system may have its planets rotating at right angles to the plane of our origin system, perhaps going faster or slower…
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Version: 1.0
Published: October 30, 2020
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