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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.

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, Inc. • 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 Ltd. • 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

captain • prince • security

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)

Images

Connections

	Star Trek: The Original Series RPG sourcebooks and adventures
Heritage Models	sourcebook	Adventure Gaming in the Final Frontier
Heritage Models	adventure	The Slaver Ruins
Tsukuda Hobby	sourcebook	Enterprise: Role Play Game in Star Trek
Tsukuda Hobby	adventure	The Drifting Ring
FASA	sourcebooks	The Role Playing Game (Star Fleet Officer's Manual • Cadet's Orientation Sourcebook • Game Operations Manual) • The Klingons (The Klingons: Star Fleet Intelligence Manual • The Klingons: Game Operation Manual) • Star Trek II: Starship Combat Simulator • Starship Tactical Combat Simulator • The Romulans: Starfleet Intelligence Manual • The Romulan Way: Game Operations Manual • Star Trek III: Starship Combat Game • Star Trek III: Starship Update • The Triangle • The Orions: Book of Common Knowledge • The Orions: Book of Deep Knowledge • The Federation • Star Fleet Intelligence Manual • Star Fleet Intelligence Manual: Agent's Orientation Sourcebook • USS Enterprise Deck Plans • Klingon D-7 Deck Plans • Trader Captains and Merchant Princes (2nd edition) • Spacelanes: The Magazine of Interstellar Trade • Ship Construction Manual • Star Trek III Sourcebook Update • The Four Years War • The Romulan War • Klingon Intelligence Briefing • Star Trek IV Sourcebook Update • Regula-1 Orbital Station Deckplans • Ship Recognition Manual: The Klingon Empire/Klingon Ship Recognition Manual • Ship Recognition Manual: The Federation/Federation Ship Recognition Manual • Ship Recognition Manual: Romulans
FASA	adventures	Adventure Book (Ghosts of Conscience • Again, Troublesome Tribbles • In the Presence of My Enemies) • The Vanished • Witness for the Defense • Denial of Destiny • Intrusion • The Natural Order • Termination: 1456 • Demand of Honor • Orion Ruse • Margin of Profit • The Outcasts • A Matter of Priorities • A Doomsday Like Any Other • The Mines of Selka • Lost and Presumed Dead • The Triangle Campaign • Graduation Exercise • Where Has All the Glory Gone? • Return to Axanar • Decision at Midnight • An Imbalance of Power • Old Soldiers Never Die • Conflict of Interests • The Dixie Gambit • The White Flame Starship Combat Scenario Pack • The Strider Incident • Stardate Magazine (The Serpent Factor • Deneva Deception • Safari in Violet • Continuing the Line • Operation Shadowfall • The Barrier of Essai • Orion Rising • The Hottest Blood of All • Operation Kingmaker • Operation Starling) • StarDrive (Another Piece of the Action)
LUG	sourcebooks	Core Game Book • Narrator's Toolkit • The Andorians: Among the Clans
LUG	adventures	The Danurian Factor • Stopping at the Beast
Mōdiphiüs	sourcebooks	TOS Rules Digest
Mōdiphiüs	adventures	These are the Voyages: Mission Compendium Vol. 1 (A World With a Bluer Sun) • Remnants • A Forest Apart • Hard Rock Catastrophe • Strange New Worlds: Mission Compendium Vol. 2 (Pluto's Cave • Drawing Deeply From the Well • No Good Deed) • The Burning • The Keyhole of Eternity

External link

Trader Captains and Merchant Princes (2nd edition) article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.

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-'''''Trader Captains and Merchant Princes''''' was a [[rPG|role-playing game]] supplement released by [[FASA]], as part of their [[star Trek: The Role Playing Game (FASA)|Star Trek: The Role Playing Game]] series.  Released in [[1987]], this module was a second edition, following [[trader Captains and Merchant Princes (1st edition)|the original ''Trader Captains and Merchant Princes'']]. Revised with expanded content, this second edition would be released as a two-book set with {{rpg|FASA RPG|Spacelanes: The Magazine of Interstellar Trade}}.
+'''''Trader Captains and Merchant Princes''''' was a [[rPG|role-playing game]] supplement released by [[FASA]], as part of their {{dis|Star Trek: The Role Playing Game|FASA}} series. Released in {{srcdate|1987}}, this module was a second edition, following [[trader Captains and Merchant Princes (1st edition)|the original ''Trader Captains and Merchant Princes'']]. Revised with expanded content, this second edition would be released as a two-book set with {{rpglk|FASA RPG|Spacelanes: The Magazine of Interstellar Trade}}.
 ==Description==
+:''This two-book rules supplement for ''{{dis|Star Trek: The Role Playing Game|FASA}}'' includes all the rules and charts needed for creating traders, [[privateer]]s, 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.''
-{{stub-pub}}
+:''[[Spacelanes: The Magazine of Interstellar Trade|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]]
+{{ref}} [[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]]'' ({{class|Argon}}) • {{USS|John Paul Jones}} • ''[[Rare Earth]]'' ({{class|Argon}}) • {{class|Baka 'Re}} • {{class|Chameleon}} • {{class|Liberty}} • {{class|Lotus Flower}} • {{class|Mission}} • {{class|Mokal}} • {{class|Monarch}} • {{class|Nilron}} • {{class|Zeus}}
 ===Locations===
+;[[Milky Way Galaxy]] ([[alpha Quadrant|Alpha]] and [[Beta Quadrant]]s) : [[Andor]] • [[Bonanza]] • [[Cait]] • [[Dalanda V]] • [[D'Livian VI]] • [[Duo III]] • [[Dvlaak]] • [[Earth]] • [[Edos|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)]]
-;[[Milky Way Galaxy]] ([[alpha Quadrant|Alpha]] and [[Beta Quadrant]]s) : [[Federation]] boundaries
 ===Races and cultures===
-:[[Caitian]] • [[Human]] • [[Klingon]] • [[Orion]] • [[Romulan]] • [[Tholian]] • [[Vulcan]]
+:[[Andorian]] • [[Caitian]] • [[Edoan]] • [[Human]] • [[Katan III native]] • [[Klingon]] • [[Orion]] • [[Romulan]] • [[RRissith]] • [[Tellarite]] • [[Tholian]] • [[Varadee]] • [[Vulcan]]
 ===States and organizations===
-:[[Federation]] • [[Gorn Hegemony]] • [[Klingon Empire]] • [[Romulan Star Empire]] • [[Starfleet]] • [[Tholian Assembly]]
+:[[Bio/Genetic Research Incorporated]] • [[Chiokis Starship Construction Corporation]] • [[Federation]] • [[Gorn Alliance]] • [[Ggramphud Histo-Cryogenics, Inc.]] • [[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 Ltd.]] • [[Xaxxi Mechanistics Ltd.]]
-===Technology and weapons===
+===Science and classification===
-:[[phaser]] • [[phaser IIB]] • [[phaser pistol]] • [[pistol]] • [[shuttlecraft]] • [[space station]] • [[starship]] • [[type-2 phaser]]
+:[[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===
@@ Line 39: / Line 88: @@
 ===Other references===
-:[[animal]] • [[calendar]] • [[clothing]] • [[credit]] • [[Federation Standard]] • [[Federation Starfleet ranks]] • [[Federation Starfleet ranks (2270s-2350s)]] • [[galaxy]] • [[government]] • [[Klingonese]] • [[language]] • [[law]] • [[lifeform]] • [[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]] • [[technology]] • [[time]] • [[title]] • [[uniform]] • [[universe]] • [[weapon]]
+:[[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===
-;[[2280s]] (from ''circa'' [[reference stardate]] [[2215 SFC|2/15]]) : Current time period.
+;[[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. ([https://davidr3deitrick.wordpress.com/2014/09/05/trader-captains-and-merchant-princes/ Trader Captains and Merchant Princes, 2nd edition] article at [https://davidr3deitrick.wordpress.com David R. Deitrick's blog])
 ===Images===
 <gallery>
-file:tCMP2.jpg|Cover image.
+tCMP2.jpg|Cover image.
 </gallery>
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 ===External link===
 * {{memoryalpha|Trader Captains and Merchant Princes}}
 [[category:rPG books]]