The ship is old. The mortgage is due. The galaxy doesn’t care.
Traveller is science fiction about ordinary people in a very large universe. You start with a history, not a class: a career that shaped you, the skills it gave you, the scars it left, and maybe a share in a battered starship. What happens next depends on your crew, your nerve and how many credits you can scrape together before the next payment falls due.
This page has the Friday Knights reference sheets for the Mongoose 2nd Edition rules. There’s a player cheat sheet for the table, a step-by-step guide to creating your character, the core concepts you’ll need (world profiles, jump travel, trade, law) and a glossary for when someone says “gas giant skimming” and everyone nods. Each sheet gives page references to the rulebooks rather than replacing them.
Read what you need. Roll the rest.
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