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[Spinward Scout]

Merry Christmas and Happy Yule to all you all who celebrate the Winter Holidays! I hope you spend this holiday surrounded with friends and loved ones. I've posted a new essay to Lore and Legends of the DezzyVerse. This week we're going back into the Traveller Universe and exploring the propaganda in the Occupied region of the Solomani Sphere

Alithea

The Solomani Confederation’s Propaganda Machine After the Solomani Rim War, the Solomani Confederation spiraled into infighting and chaos. Terra had fallen to the Third Imperium in 1002 and t…

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Merry Christmas!

 

[Stei'awtliyrl]

For our last Lore and Legends of the Dezzyverse essay of 2025, I'm taking a little teensey-weensey indulgence. Something I'm sure most of us here on the CotI forum have done at one time or another, designing the Millenium Falcon in Traveller stats!

She’s the Fastest Hunk of Junk in the Galaxy!

She’s Fast Enough for You, Old Man. Traveller and Star Wars both came out in 1977. It took very little time for players to design all the ships in Traveller stats. Book 5: High Guard was publ…

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[bookwyrm]

For our last Lore and Legends of the Dezzyverse essay of 2025, I'm taking a little teensey-weensey indulgence. Something I'm sure most of us here on the CotI forum have done at one time or another, designing the Millenium Falcon in Traveller stats!

She’s the Fastest Hunk of Junk in the Galaxy!

She’s Fast Enough for You, Old Man. Traveller and Star Wars both came out in 1977. It took very little time for players to design all the ships in Traveller stats. Book 5: High Guard was publ…

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I remember wanting to do this when I discovered T20. Wasn't easy. After reading your blog, I might do some rethinking and some tinkering to make a want-to-be T20 version of the M. Falcon that I can be proud of.

 

[Stei'awtliyrl]

I've been suffering with COVID all this week (It sucks, 1 out of 5 Sunbursts, cannot recommend). But! I've still managed to upload a new blog to Lore and Legends of the Dezzyverse. It's a little shorter than my normal essays (COVID brain is a bitch).

Small Ships and Hard Times

Small Ship Campaigns at the End of the Rebellion War By 1121 3i, the Rebellion War had been in stalemate for two or three years. Fleet Actions and counter-actions have burned through entire front-l…

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[Stei'awtliyrl]

Igniting the Stars

Designing Solar Systems for 2300 AD One of the mechanics I’ve really enjoyed over my years with Traveller and Traveller:2300 (2300 AD) is the ability to generate star systems. Still, with 230…

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This week I've uploaded the first of a new series for Lore and Legends working on Traveller 2300 (or 2300 AD). I just got my new 2300 books from Mongoose on Monday and I'm excited to start designing a campaign.

 

[Stei'awtliyrl]

Vampire Mecha

VIRUS in Bat..+1373ck%#@&..11011001..* The end of the Rebellion War could be marked somewhere around 1121 3i. That’s the point, strategically, when most of the warring factions could no l…

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I'm a couple of days late with this week's upload, but I think it's a fun way to cross the streams. "What if VIRUS was released in the Battletech Universe?"

 

[bookwyrm]

Vampire Mecha

VIRUS in Bat..+1373ck%#@&..11011001..* The end of the Rebellion War could be marked somewhere around 1121 3i. That’s the point, strategically, when most of the warring factions could no l…

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I'm a couple of days late with this week's upload, but I think it's a fun way to cross the streams. "What if VIRUS was released in the Battletech Universe?"

If you're interested, check out the 86 Eighty-six anime. It has some dark themes, but you'll understand why I shared after getting a few episodes in.

 

[mongolio]

ok, i will read it a read to your blog and will try to learn more, as i am also trying to start an srd blog, purely out of my love.

 

[Stei'awtliyrl]

https://dezzy-parrish.com/2026/01/27/farm-boys-and-princesses/

Published the blog on time this week, because I'm a professional! This week on Lore an Legends of the Dezzyverse, we analyze the story of Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa through the original Star Wars Trilogy as Traveller character generation.

 

[Stei'awtliyrl]

ok, i will read it a read to your blog and will try to learn more, as i am also trying to start an srd blog, purely out of my love.

I see you're new to COTI! (Well, at least SOC-1) Welcome to the boards!

 

[Stei'awtliyrl]

This week, inspired by the Secret Societies IYTU thread, I've written about Secret Societies in Lore and Legends of the Dezzyverse this week.

Have You Seen the Yellow Sign?

Secret Societies, Conspiracies, Cabals and Guilds In the Third Imperium, there are countless organizations dedicated to the social, political, business, even academic advancement of their members. …

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[Stei'awtliyrl]

This week's Lore and Legends of the Dezzyverse crosses the streams. I take heavy inspiration from Moorcock and explore using the Eternal Struggle of Law and Chaos in Traveller. When Tech Levels get high, really high, science fiction roleplaying starts to feel like fantasy.

Dancing at the End of Time

The cosmic struggle between Law and Chaos comes to Traveller Somewhen in spacetime. Outside of the linear flow that most sentients experience, parallel to the physical universe and the higher dimen…

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Also, I'm debuting a new masthead!

 

[Stei'awtliyrl]

This week, we're "Cloning around" (pause for laughter or groans) on Legends and Lore of the Dezzyverse. This was a fun one to write, imagining what a cloned character might play like (especially with an "edited" past)

Quick, Send in the Clones

They’re Already Here Cloning has been a part of Science Fiction for a century. Pod people, Engineered populations, Teleportation accidents, Parallel dimensions, the ways clones are imagined g…

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[bookwyrm]

This week, we're "Cloning around" (pause for laughter or groans) on Legends and Lore of the Dezzyverse. This was a fun one to write, imagining what a cloned character might play like (especially with an "edited" past)

Quick, Send in the Clones

They’re Already Here Cloning has been a part of Science Fiction for a century. Pod people, Engineered populations, Teleportation accidents, Parallel dimensions, the ways clones are imagined g…

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Definitely food for thought for my universe. On one planet Clones are every day citizens and the next world over clones are black market resources. Also enjoyed the possible technologies employed in making clones.

 

[Stei'awtliyrl]

Definitely food for thought for my universe. On one planet Clones are every day citizens and the next world over clones are black market resources. Also enjoyed the possible technologies employed in making clones.

Thank you. It was fun!