Trader Captains and Merchant Princes was a role-playing game supplement released by FASA, as part of their Star Trek: The Role Playing Game series. Released in 1987, this module was a second edition, following the original Trader Captains and Merchant Princes. Revised with expanded content, this second edition would be released as a two-book set with FASA RPG module: Spacelanes: The Magazine of Interstellar Trade.
Description[]
- This two-book rules supplement for Star Trek: The Role Playing Game includes all the rules and charts needed for creating traders, privateers, merchants, con men, and rogues. A complete system for trading commodities, playing the stock market, procuring a bank loan, and maintaining a starship are all presented in an easy-to-understand format.
- Book 1 contains comments and essays on the ups and downs of the merchant's life, written in the form of the Triangle Edition of the Interstellar Trader's Association magazine. Book 2 includes all the information necessary for the gamemaster to play and run characters who buy and sell merchandise, rent, lease, buy or steal a starship, find a cargo for hire, buy and sell on the black market, and many other possibilities.
Contents[]
- Introduction
- Creating Trader Characters
- Training Trader Characters
- Equipping the Trader Character
- Starting Savings
- Starting Cash
- Guide to Equipment
- Land Vehicles
- Water Vehicles
- Air Vehicles
- Weapons
- Medical Equipment
- Clothing
- Guide to Services
- Judging Trade
- Running the Corporate Bureaucracy
- Independent Trade
- Building a Business
- Judging Spaceport Operations
- Judging the Merchant Adventure
- The Character Spokesman
- Adventure Types
- Adventure Preparation
- Creating a Campaign Setting
- NPCs
- Establishing the Adventure
- Judging Illegal Operations
- Smuggling
- Judging Finance and Investments
- Stocks and Securities
- Playing the Market
- Bonds
- Large-Scale Fleet Operations
- Loans and financial Speculation
- Appendix A: Travel Time
- Appendix B: Trade Ships
- Control Computers
- Engines
References[]
Characters[]
- Lawrence Jordaine • C. Northcote Parkinson
- Referenced only
- B'rintrae • Federiko Comstock • Aurora Fell • LeRoy Gannet • Cyrano Jones • Kevlath sutai-Plaviteem • James T. Kirk • Tristan Leeper II • Randolf Merriweather III • Harry Mudd • Sintar • Tirex • Sara Undara • Tamara Uvanca • Urden Victa
Starships and vehicles[]
- Four Leaf Clover (Argon-class) • USS John Paul Jones • Rare Earth (Argon-class) • Baka 'Re-class • Chameleon-class • Liberty-class • Lotus Flower-class • Mission-class • Mokal-class • Monarch-class • Nilron-class • Zeus-class
Locations[]
- Milky Way Galaxy (Alpha and Beta Quadrants)
- Andor • Bonanza • Cait • Dalanda V • D'Livian VI • Duo III • Dvlaak • Earth • Edo • Enid VI • Facet • Janus VI • Katan III • Keef • Klaan • Klest • Klevaan • Mars • Organian Treaty Zone • RRiss • Shuridar • SSleen • Tellar • Torrt VI • T'Rillian • Tritium • Twilight Base • Twilight Nebula • Vulcan (planet)
Races and cultures[]
- Andorian • Caitian • Edoan • Human • Katan III native • Klingon • Orion • Romulan • RRissith • Tellarite • Tholian • Varadee • Vulcan
States and organizations[]
- Bio/Genetic Research Incorporated • Chiokis Starship Construction Corporation • Federation • Gorn Alliance • Ggramphud Histo-Cryogenics Incorporated • Klingon Empire • Leeper-Fell Universal, Ltd. • Multiplanet Metals Incorporated • New Amsterdam Gravitics Co. • Rantura Shipping Lines • Romulan Star Empire • Shuvinaaljis Warp Technologies Incorporated • Starfleet • Tachyon Micromechanics, Ltd. • Tholian Assembly • Wilson Energies Limited • Xaxxi Mechanistics Ltd.
Science and classification[]
- aqualantern • biocomputer • disruptor • environmental suit • gillpak • holographic camera • hypospray • ID forgery unit • laser scalpel • life support mask • phaser • phaser IIB • phaser pistol • pistol • police stunner • shuttlecraft • space station • starship • stun club • tricorder • type-2 phaser • universal translator
Ranks and titles[]
Other references[]
- animal • black market • calendar • clothing • coradrenaline • credit • dylovene • Federation Standard • Federation Starfleet ranks • Federation Starfleet ranks (2270s-2350s) • Four Years War • galaxy • government • hyronalin • Klingonese • language • law • lifeform • Masiform D • money • outpost • piQaD • planet • primary universe • quadrant • races and cultures • rank • space • space-time continuum • star • star map • stardate • star system • Starfleet uniform • Starfleet uniform (2270s-2350s) • state • sterilite • stock market • technology • time • title • tri-ox compound • uniform • universe • weapon
Chronology[]
- 2287 (from reference stardate 2/2308.09)
- Current time period.
Appendices[]
Background[]
- Illustrator David Deitrick caught the misspelling of quarantine within the computer display in his cover illustration too late to fix it before printing. (Trader Captains and Merchant Princes, 2nd edition article at David R. Deitrick's blog)
- The back cover image is a flopped NASA photograph of the Orion Nebula, a.k.a. Messier 42 and NGC 1976. (Orion Nebula photo at Getty Images.)
Images[]
Cover image.
Connections[]
External link[]
- Trader Captains and Merchant Princes (2nd edition) article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.