It's not a spoiler to tell you that the forthcoming issue of Freelance
Traveller will feature three articles by Timothy Collinson, based on the
premise of converting a literary fictional character into a Traveller
character.
Oooh, exciting! Roll on the end of Feb... ;-)
This effort was well-enough done that I am specifically and publicly asking
him to consider choosing other fictional characters - from all genres and
metagenres - and working them up in much the same fashion.
Well, that's very kind. Although I should say that the particular character has been a life long obsession and writing the material took a massive amount of rereading and thought! One of those, "how long did it take you to write?... pretty much a lifetime" questions and answers.
So I'm not saying I *couldn't* do it again, just that it wasn't quite the 'easy' writing of, say, an after-action report. But you've already given me an interesting suggestion for a follow up, so once I've read the books involved (I'll take notes as I go this time) you might get something in about four years time!
I am further inviting other members of the Traveller community to do the
same: Pick a character from stories you've enjoyed, whatever the genre or
metagenre, that you've thought would make a good Traveller character, and
work them up as one. If you need to work up a new career, by all means, go
for it, and some adventures or adventure seeds, possibly but not
necessarily based on the fiction that the character appears in, would
certainly not go amiss.
When I say any genre or metagenre, I mean it. If you think you can do up
early Jack Ryan, that's great. James Bond? Go for it! Nile Etlaw, Trigger
Argee, Danestar Gems, Telzey Amberdon, ...? Fine! Paksenarrion
Dorthansdottir, Lessa, or Kylara Vatta?
oooh, oooh, would love to see Kylara done if someone's up for that.
Meanwhile, I've got Part XVII, I think it is, of the Traveller Adventure tonight (we'll be arriving at Junidy so, yes, we'll hopefully be onto *that* part of the adventure), and less than a month until TravCon at the start of March, so kind of occupied with those and a Lego idea at present. (More of the latter later).
Cheers