From: jeff.zeitlin@execnet.com (JEFF ZEITLIN) Organization: Execnet Information System - 914-667-4567 - 206.181.98.136 Date: Fri, 10 Jan 97 14:23:00 -0500 Subject: Introductory Post Hi, I'm Jeff, and I'm a Traveller junkie. Yes, I know, that's an _old_ joke, but _old_ is how I feel right now - nothing to do with Traveller or Galactic, though, so 'nuff of that. My first exposure to Traveller was as a player at RPI, back in about '83. We were being run through _Annic_Nova_, and I was hooked. Since then, I've run some campaigns of my own, and played in others, until the recent dispersal of my campaign group. I've collected a fair amount of Traveller stuff; I like background information. I maintain the RICE Archives and the Freelance Traveller resources on the Web, and am at least recognized on the TML. I don't have a real life; I work for the City of New York, pretending to support a Police Department LAN (have you ever known civil service to look anything like a real life?). I say pretending because the PD pretends that they really need me there, and I pretend to agree with them (while telling them exactly what they're doing wrong, and correctly predicting the failure mode not less than three-quarters of the time. They still ignore me, though). It's an easy 45K per year, so I'm not complaining... For Galactic, I'd like to stake my claim to the Julian Protectorate, focussing on Amdukan sector initially. I'd appreciate it if people would point me to any already-published info on it other than what appears in DGP's _Vilani_and_Vargr_ sourcebook; I'd rather not invalidate/be invalidated by information that I wasn't aware of.