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T RAVELLER

A GENT

C REDITS

C ONTENTS

Classic Traveller

Marc Miller

I NTRODUCTION

A GENT C HARACTER G ENERATION

Loren Wiseman, John Harshman, Frank Chadwick, Darryl Hany,

Winston Hamilton, Tony Svajlenka, Scott Renner, Doug Poe,

David MacDonald, Wayne Roth, Paul R. Banner

A GENCIES

T HE L AW IN T RAVELLER

Mongoose Traveller

A UTHOR

Bryan Steele with additional text by Gareth Hanrahan

D ARK S IDE OF C ORPORATIONS

B OUNTIES

E DITOR

Richard Ford

A GENT T ECHNOLOGY

I NDEX

118

L AYOUT

Will Chapman

I NTERIOR I LLUSTRATIONS

Jorge Momparler, Carlos Nunez de Castro Torres,

Travis Leichssenring,Tony Parker, German Ponce,

Phil Renne & Vicente Sivera

S PECIAL T HANKS

Dominic Mooney, Stuart Machin, David Ives

P LAYTESTERS

Ian Bruntlett, Richard Crow, Stuart Machin, Nicola Mayhew, Andrew

James Alan Welty, Gregory Wolfe

P ROOFREADER

Nick Robinson

significant characters, names, places,items, art and text herein are copyrighted by Mongoose Publishing.

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This material is protected under the copyright laws of the United Kingdom and of the United States. This product is a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual people, organisations,

places or events is purely coincidental.

Traveller is a trademark of Far Future Enterprises and is used under licence.

Printed in the USA.

E SPIONAGE

I NTRODUCTION

The greater universe of Traveller is a vast place that contains countless

people with an infinite number of schemes, plots and agendas. Some

of these agendas are personal things that are undertaken by a single

individual but most are larger affairs that affect tens of thousands of

employees, constituents or co-workers. When clandestine methods

are needed to complete a task, an employer will call on third parties

to expedite his needs – Agents .

Despite the notion that an agent will work for anyone, there are a

handful of powerful agencies that are always looking for new blood

to pump into their veins. The next chapter is dedicated to four types

of organisations that regularly use agents to achieve their goals.

There are many times where an agent’s role brings him into direct contact

with the legal system, officers of the law and criminals. This book has a

chapter dedicated to the various degrees of law and legal authority in the

Traveller settings. Through the many law levels of standard designations

and the people to talk to in order to serve or avoid them, this book lays

the groundwork of the Traveller law system.

Agents are a lot of different things for their employers but most of all

they are problem solvers. They accept contracts that range from the

simple policing of a neighbourhood or investigating a rival corporation

to the secret assassination of a wayward Imperial duke. They have

to be smart, cunning, skilled and ready for the kinds of obstacles the

galaxy has to offer. Hired by the likes of corporations, governments and

nobles, an agent’s job is infinitely easier to define than it is to perform.

Governments are one of the leading employers of freelance agents,

often sending them against one another in subtle ways; using

information as much as bullets or lasers. The next chapter in the

sourcebook covers the various levels of agent espionage. Computer

warfare, the servants of lesser governments and counter-spy

intelligence gathering are all facets of what an agent may be called

upon to do. This chapter shows them how.

An agent does whatever the employer requires of him.

Traveller: Agent is one in a series of career path sourcebooks that

expand greatly upon the initial career as presented in the Traveller

Core Rulebook . Where Traveller players only had minimal information

to completely describe their Agent characters previously, this book

opens the floodgates of ideas, options and new facets to explore.

The most lucrative employment options for an agent normally come

from behind the table of a megacorporation’s board of directors.

The chapter focussed upon corporate dealings and contracts is an

agent’s guide to working under the multi-trillion Credit powerhouses

without getting swallowed up and digested.

This book not only holds the key to fleshing out Agent characters

but also adds several new elements to the entirety of the Traveller

gaming system. In most Traveller settings you will find powerful

corporations, criminals and conspiracy-laden governments to

interact with. Putting their own agents in play like the pieces of a

chessboard, this book gives Referees a collection of new narrative

items, rules and ideas to use in their own games.

Some agents work within the legal system… but not for it. These

dedicated folk are called bounty hunters and this book gives them a

small chapter of their own. This section looks at how an agent can

make a living hunting down bounties and bond jumpers.

The book comes to a close with an armoury of agent-related goods

and technologies. Including a new stealth equipment, cybernetic

enhancements and some personal long-range craft; this final

chapter is where an agent should be able find something of use no

matter what branch they serve.

With the information found in this book, all Traveller fans can discover

the real benefits and drawbacks of the game’s most mysterious career

path, the world they live in and the people they work for. Traveller: Agent

is the guidebook to everything revolving around the agent career.

U SING T HIS B OOK

From a game perspective, this book has a variety of new rules, setting

information and equipment to expand the boundaries of Traveller .

Each chapter reveals more about what it means to be an agent in the

universe and allows readers to discover the insidious dealings that

their employers are caught up in. Traveller: Agent is designed to lift the

veil of the most secretive of career paths.

The book begins with a chapter dedicated to expanding greatly on the Agent

career path. Once only consisting of three sub-paths, this sourcebook offers

a staggering twenty-one different paths based on seven Agent Careers. If a

character wants to be a governmental handler of VIPs or the assassin that

targets them; they can find out how in this chapter.

A GENT C HARACTER G ENERATION

Traveller has always been about the intersection of the vast forces

of physics, history and economics and the tiny, personal stories of

individuals. Travellers experience the fall of civilisations and the

movements of empires in a uniquely personal way. As above, so

below; the characters embody the actions of greater powers. The

story of one tramp trader can be replicated a billion times larger to

show the expansion of civilisation and trade into lawless space. A

galactic war that engulfs hundreds of worlds can also be two men

in a ruined city, each trying to kill the other. Traveller tells galactic

history through the adventures of individuals and small groups.

Cover Identities

Many agents choose or are ordered to create cover identities. Roll a

separate Social Standing for each cover identity.

Cover identities are rated as follows:

Very Weak (+0): The agent has a false name and forged identification

but little else.

Weak (+1): The agent adds secondary references like credit accounts

and property deeds to his identity.

Average (+2): The agent creates good electronic records that back

up all of his physical accounts.

Strong (+3): The cover identity is given a full background,

including university or military records from an obscure but

researchable planet.

Very Strong (+4): The agent has made a complete second life out

of the cover identity, including a full roster of Imperial background

records that will pass most investigations.

Agents are the clearest example of this capacity for embodiment. They are

literally the agents of greater powers – of the Imperium or of other governments,

of justice and order, of megacorporations or other unscrupulous institutions.

They are the human face of vast organisations or movements.

C HARACTERISTICS

Education and Intelligence are the key attributes for an agent. Agencies

recruit the best-educated and most self-sufficient people they can find,

especially those with useful or unusual backgrounds. A moderate Social

Standing is useful to some agents, although agents may be trained in

constructing cover identities from a variety of social standings. Strength,

Dexterity and Endurance are important only to field agents.

Each cover identity has its own career path; events may permit

an agent to roll on the skills or events tables for a different career

taken by his cover identity, allowing him to pick up different skills

and benefits.

For example, Agent Yan has two cover identities – one is a belter

named Wild Bob, the other is a corporate executive and frequent

traveller named Heran Wight. Yan has spent one full term maintaining

the Wight identity, making it a Strong cover that is likely to stand up

to considerable scrutiny. He has only spent a few weeks as Wild Bob

(just long enough to purchase a Seeker mining vessel and make a few

contacts), so it is a Weak cover.

The Agency

Almost every agent works for a larger organisation of some sort – a

government department, a corporation, a world’s law enforcement

agency, a spy network – and it is this agency that recruits and trains

the agent. Successful agents can request more support from the

agency; agents who fail the agency will be left out in the cold.

In the game, the agency functions much like a patron, assigning

missions to the agent. The agency may also be able to provide help

such as money, transport, equipment or support during a mission.

Networks

Agents may also create networks of informants, contacts and

allies. Networks must be cultivated over time but may pass on

rumours and useful information to the agent or provide help in

times of need. Networks are also rated numerically like skills and

are acquired through events, skill tables or through roleplaying.

Networks are as follows:

Trust

In game terms, a character’s standing with his agency is determined

by both his rank and his Trust, which measures how much his

superiors trust and rely on him. Trust is acquired like a skill during

character creation and through roleplaying thereafter.

Street

Criminal

Politics

Corporate

Military

Academic

For example, Agent Yan has a Rank of 3 in the Ministry of Justice and a

Trust score of 3. He can only request Rank 3 or lower assets from the agency

but has a +3 DM when rolling to determine if he receives the assets.

A GENT C HARACTER G ENERATION

Leaving the Agency

Mustering out of the agent career does not always mean that the character has left the agency. If the Referee approves, the character may

actually be on a deep cover assignment, which can allow him to draw on agency resources while adventuring.

C AREERS

Career

Specialisation

Qualification

Survival

Advancement

Law Enforcement

Int 5+

Patroller

Int 7+

Edu 7+

Special Operations

End 8+

Int 6+

Customs

Dex 6+

Edu 8+

Investigator

Int 6+

Private Detective

Int 6+

Soc 8+

Inspector

Edu 7+

Int 7+

Undercover Agent

Int 8+

Edu 6+

Spy

Int 7+

Field Agent

Edu 6+

Soc 8+

Operative

Edu 7+

Int 7+

Infiltrator

Edu 8+

Int 6+

Analyst

Soc 8+

Political Officer

Soc 6+

Soc 7+

Technical Expert

Int 7+

Int 6+

Handler

Int 7+

Soc 7+

Corporate

Int 6+

Security

Int 5+

Int 7+

Espionage

Dex 7+

Int 6+

Bodyguard

End 7+

Soc 6+

Bounty Hunter

Int 7+

Ship Tracer

End 6+

Soc 7+

Bondsman

End 7+

Int 7+

Thieftaker

Dex 7+

Int 6+

Career

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