Marc Miller's Traveller Character Sheet

Sir Misha Ravanos

(Gavin Romig-Koch)

UPP	Str	Dex	End	Int	Edu	Soc
Base	6	C	A	9	2	B
Current						(+1 on Rhylanor and Adabicci)

Weight	Height	Race (Variety)	Birthdate	Apparent Age (Actual Age)	Sex	Current Career	Rank / Title
		human (Lowborne)	???-????	42 (when?)	M

Homeworld

System	Subsector	Sector	UWP
Lickta	Minim	Foreven	C795373-7

Starport	Size	Atmos	Hydro	Population	Law Level	Tech Level
C	Medium	Dense	Wet	Low	Low	Pre-Stellar

Difficulty Codes

Rating	Dice Code	Rating	Dice Code	Rating	Dice Code
Easy	Auto / 2D	Difficult	4D	Staggering	6D
Average	3D	Formidable	5D	Impossible	7D
Spectacular Failure:	three 6's	Spectacular Success:	Target No. = Skill level + Dice Code
Target Number formula	regular: JoT:	Attr + 3 x Lvl Attr + Lvl	AT roll: Formidable, AT, Int (safe)

Space and Related Skills

Skill	Lvl	Attr	TN	AT	:	Skill	Lvl	Attr	TN	AT
Computer		int edu	9 2			Vaccsuit	3	dex	21

Other Vehicle Skills

Skill	Lvl	Attr	TN	AT	:	Skill	Lvl	Attr	TN	AT
Equestrian		dex soc	12 11			Ground Craft		dex edu	12 2
*Gravcraft*	0	dex	12			Watercraft		dex end	12 10

Social Skills

Skill	Lvl	Attr	TN	AT	Skill	Lvl	Attr	TN
Administration	4	edu soc	14 23	I	Fast Talk		int edu	9 2
Bribery		int soc	9 11		Gambling		int soc	9 11
*Carousing*	6	soc	26	I	*Intimidation*	5	str end	21 25
Diplomacy	1	soc	14	II	*Streetwise*	8	end int	34 33

Academic Skills

Skill	Lvl	Attr	TN	Skill	Attr	TN
Acting		int soc	9 11	Music	dex int	12 9
Art		int soc	9 11	Philosophy	int edu	9 2
Craftsman		dex edu	12 2	Psychology	int edu	9 2
Dance		dex soc	12 11	Research	edu	2
Instruction		int edu	9 2	Writing	int edu	9 2
Literacy	1	int edu	12 5

Miscellaneous Skills

Skill	Attr	TN	Skill	Lvl	Attr	TN
Athletics	str dex end	6 12 10	*Intrusion*	4	dex int	24 21
Broker	int edu	9 2	Investigation		int	9
Disguise	int	9	Navigation		int edu	9 2
First Aid	int edu	9 2	*Perception*	9	int edu	36 29
Forgery	dex int	12 9	Trader		int soc	9 11
Interrogation	end int	10 9

Jack of Trades (AT: none)

Skill	str	dex	end	int	edu	soc
0	6	12	10	9	2	11

Military Skills

Skill	Lvl	Attr	TN	Skill	Lvl	Attr	TN
Camouflage		int	12	*Stealth*	4	dex	24
*Leadership*	12	end soc	46 47	*Survival*	1	end	13
Recon		end int	10 9	*Tactics*	2	int edu	15 8

Weapon and Fighting Skills

Skill	Lvl	Attr	TN	Skill	Lvl	Attr	TN
*Bow Combat*	1	dex	15	Rifle		dex	12
*Brawling*	1	str dex	9 15	*Short Blade*	1	dex	15
*Environment Combat*	5	dex int	27 24	*Shotgun*	1	dex	15
Heavy Weapons		str dex	6 12	SMG		dex	12
*Long Blade*	6	str dex	24 30	Throwing		str dex	6 12
Melee Combat		str dex	6 12	Zack Fighting	6	str dex end	24 30 28
Pistol		dex	12

Psionics

Psi Strength	Psionics Test		Training
Psi Strength	Date	Location	Start	End	Location(s)

Discipline	Lvl	TN	AT	:	Discipline	Lvl	TN	AT

Weapons and Armor

Weapon / Armor	TL	Mass	Range	Shots	Damage
Saber

Possessions

Cash on person	Cash balance	Monthly Upkeep	Monthly Income	TAS member since
	100,000			???? (yes)

no.	Position	Base salary	Skill	Multiplier		adjust	Actual salary
no.	Position	Base salary	Skill	skill	no.	adjust	Actual salary
1	Captain		6		1
2					1/2
3					1/3
4					1/4
Total:

Other Possessions
Jherig

History

Years	Age	Dates	Activity	Notes

Background Links

T4-Style Career

Common and Background Skills

Common
Background	Bow Combat	Survival
Background	Streetwise	Short Blade

Academic Record

Education	Where	Admission	Years	Graduate	Skills
(none)

Term One

Age	Years	Skills	Notes
14 - 17		Stealth, Intrusion-2, Intimidation	Began his career at age 14 working for the local mob. Streetwise kid, to local punk, doing little jobs a local enforcer (plus a little for himself). Easily avoided injury.

Term Two

Age	Years	Skills	Notes
18 - 21		Intimidation, Intrusion, Shotgun, Leadership	Became the local enforcer. Badly wounded, but not injured out.

Term Three

Age	Years	Skills	Notes
22 - 25		Long Blade, Stealth, Streetwise, Leadership	Learned some new methods, began his rise in the ranks.

Term Four

Age	Years	Skills	Notes
26 - 29		Streetwise, Intimidation, Long Blade, Leadership	Continued his rise.

Term Five

Age	Years	Skills	Notes
30 - 33		Streetwise. Admin, Leadership-2	Became leader of the local mob.

Term Six

Age	Years	Skills	Notes
34 - 37		Stealth, Intrusion, Perception, Streetwise	"Retire" from mob, began doing odd jobs for nobility.

Term Seven

Age	Years	Skills	Notes
38 - 41		Stealth, Perception, Long Blade, Streetwise	Made contacts with off world nobility. Flew in my first spaceship. Did some small but effective jobs. He's now caught the eye of a few of the local sector's leaders, perhaps even the Duke.

Mustering Out

Reason for Leaving	working for Marquis Marcus Crestworthy
Benefits	Jherig
	100,000 Cr
	3 * Blade = Saber + Long Blade-2
	TAS
	SOC+1

Background Notes

The Jehrig

The Jherig is a small flying reptile (like a small dragon) about the size of a parrot. It has the intelligence of a dog, but a reptillian personalty. It knows various commands, but only does them when it wants to (so what would be a "command" to a dog, is a "suggestion/request" to a Jherig).

It has claws and teeth (as well as wings), and can fight reasonably well, but does so only when it feels theatened. It will not attack on command, but it has occationally fought by my side, or at least warned me when it saw a danger I didn't (by digging it's claws harder into my shoulder).

Jherigs (like many of the animals on my home world) are psionic, but not powerfully so. It can read thoughts/emotions from the minds around it, and if it understands them, can act on them. It can often sense an attacker (and sometimes will warn me). It can also read "suggestions/requests" directly from my mind. It knows the "suggestions/requests" for "watch my back", "scout out ahead", "give me some privacy", "get me that (little thing I'm looking at)", "lookout/hide/fly". Of course, I'm not psyonic, so I have no idea what things it says back, except from the look in his eyes.

The Homeworld

{Editorial: I don't have a good name for this world, nor for the two "races" that populate. I'll work on this}

[MJW: It's almost certainly Lickta (1307 Foreven; 0507 Minim)]

My homeworld is wet, lightly populated, and relatively early and exotic in it's evolution. The politics are balkanized into contenents, and though there have been wars in the past, the population is so thin that contact between contenents is rare.

My homeworld is off the "space-lanes", is not strategically placed, and is generally unknown, so traders, generals, fortune seekers, and vacationers tend to ignore us.

Their are two "races" of humans on my world: the Highborne and the Lowborne. There has been almost no interbreeding between these peoples since they met almost 4000 years ago.

The stereotypical Highborne is tall, thin, with pointed features, and black hair, highly educated, and frail. The stereotypical Lowborne is the opposite, though, as in most cases, the stereotype isn't reality, and the two peoples have much more in common than they are willing to admit. I am of the Lowborne. The Highborne came to our world, and conquered it 4000 years ago. The two peoples now live amongst each other in peace.

The Lowborne came to this world way too long ago to remember, and most Lowborne believe we've always been here. By the time the Highborne arrived we had lost most of our technology, no one knows why, but some among the Highborne are begining to suspect.

Our world is a mix of high tech, and low tech. High rises, and huge spires, and little cottages, and country churches. The Lowborne do the low tech jobs: mostly farming, hunting, and low tech crafts and shopkeepers. We live on farms, or in the wilds, or in small villages, or in the shops surrounding the highrises of the Highborne.

The Highborne handle the high tech stuff, though in fact they tend to avoid the appearance of "technology". They read real books, walk (or sometimes ride horses), ....

The big secret is that my homeworld is highly psionic. Many of the animals have psionic powers, and even some of the plants. All Highborne are slighly psionic, and tend to use psionics to communicate with their machines, their pets, and each other over long distances. Actual "psionic powers" are still rare among the Highborne, but they do exist, and don't have to be hidden on our world.

Among the Lowborne the "psionic powers" are more concentrated. A few "witch doctors" have amazing powers, but no one thinks of these as psionic. Instead these "witch doctors" believe they invoke the spirits around them, and their powers tend to manifest themselves in ways that bear out this belief. Most Lowborne don't seem to have psionic powers, but whether that is actual lack of ability, or just a fear of being called a "witch", or worst being called a "Highborne", is unknown. It is illegal for a Lowborne to use "psionic powers" like the Highborne, but no self respecting Lowborne would do so anyway - which explains the whole "witch doctor" thing. Those among the Highborne who think about these things think that something in the atmosphere, or food, or water, acts as a mild psionic drug. After thousands of years it's become part of our genes.

[One theory is that the Psionic Institute is a very secret, very powerful, group, either on, or perhaps within the governments on my Homeworld. MJW has a theory of his own.]

The system is called Lickta, and it's further out of the way than you can imagine. It's in the Minim subsector of Foreven, and is member of the three-world Arabellan Constituencies. The Highborne retain control of the technology they brought from Arabell.

The only real oddity is it's tidally locked to the star, so (almost) everyone will be living in the comfortable twilight area, although closer to the bright side than the dark. The primary star is a white dwarf, and there's a secondary which is a dull red dwarf. One very large moon orbits Lickta every two days, providing the equivalent of a night when it eclipses the primary star. A large gas giant, with four moderate-sized moons, occupies the next orbit out, while the secondary (with two close gas giants of its own) orbits next furthest. The skies on Lickta will be spectacular. The whole system would fit within the orbit of Venus.

As for how he ended up here, he would have probably made his way through the outer edges of the Zhodani Consulate, ending up eventually in Querion and Vilis subsectors of Spinward Marches, where there are all sorts of interesting jobs to be done. The Zho's themselves were probably his first offworld employer, and no doubt provided passage to the Querion - Vilis area to do some job where they didn't want to get their hands dirty. From then on though, the opportunites for employment abounded, and it was almost immediately that his employers tended to come from the Imperium side of the neutral zone rather than the more ethical Zho's. From there, as they say, the rest is history...

More Background Notes

For myself, I've not created a character yet (perhaps this weekend), but I've got an idea of where I want to go with him. He was born poor, and of the wrong ethnic origin for the area. He was raised by his hardworking single mother, with occasional help from his uncle, a witch in an ancient, nearly dead, animistic religion. From them he gained a strong sense of right and wrong, but never hesitated to break the law, or hurt someone when it was necessary. He started as a thug working for the protection buisness (in an area where these things are not a total fraud), and worked his way up to area boss. At that point he had some free time, and began to do random sensitive jobs for nobility, and eventually found himself smack in the middle of the very high class, very dangerous world of inter-system politics. He has never been "one of them", but his honor, willingness, and ability have made him contacts, friends, and enemies at every level of society.

Lately, Misha Ravanos has been wondering out loud to the Jehrig that befriended him long ago, "what next".... The little reptile probably knows, but it isn't telling.