Oct 15th Captain Liv & The Sable Tiger

Captain Liv is a rough-around-the-edges, lusty human woman with the hard-nosed independent attitude common to the free traders of the Skein Reach. She flies the Sable Tiger, a custom GM 210 that can cover three parsecs in a jump.

Canny, she knows when to hold ’em and when to fold, when to run, and when to fight. First Mate “Seargent Mac” is a humorless retired Imperial Space Marine, who lost a leg in a crusade against the lizard people of Marzox 6b and now mostly gets around with the help of a grav belt. Jack is friendly and sociable, knows the basics of all of the Sable Tiger’s systems, and fills in wherever needed. They are often on the lookout for good crew, whether it is stewards to attend to their passengers, gunners to operate the turrets, engineers, sensor operators, or even some new lover picked up in starport, whisked off to the stars.

Cpn. Liv was born Lavinia Thunxzon on Johnston’s World, and got her start flying with her father on his free trader the Tortise, running the planet’s agricultural goods to Aroura Station. After seven years the Tortise was shot down and plundered in the Archeron system. Her father was killed, she was badly injured, and the remains of the Tortise were scrapped by the pirate flotilla.

Pressed into service, Liv proved herself a capable crewmember who was good with a blade if need be. The next eleven years were spent in incredible adventures in space, living outside the law, warring with other gangs and pirates, gaining friends and killing enemies, until she gained the trust and friendship of Grgrz, the massive, ruthless reptilian pirate admiral leading the underground resistance to the Empire’s Crusade on Marzox. She was given Captaincy of the Sable Tiger to run supplies past the Imperial blockades, and was there at Marzox 6b when the Imperial Bombardment Fleet arrived and the Crusade was ushered to a bloody victory on a scorched planet. The resistance in tatters, Cpn. Liv fled in the Sable Tiger rimward, back to the Skein Reach.

Since then the Sable Tiger has been on the run in the Skein Reach, laying low, running the old agricultural cargo run from Jhonston’s World to Aroura Station, and doing jobs in other remote destinations in the Reach.

Cpn. Liv

Merchant (Free Trader) rank 1

Rogue (Pirate) rank 1

Human Female, age 34

CHARACTERISTICS

STR 6

DEX 11 (+1)

END 6

INT 8

EDU 5 (-1)

SOC 3 (-1)

SKILLS

Astrogation 1

Broker 0

Carouse 0

Electronics 0

Gun Combat (Energy) 1

Gunner (Turret) 1

Mechanic 0

Melee (Blade) 2

Persuade 0

Pilot (Spacecraft) 2

Stealth 1

Steward 0

Streetwise 1

Tactics (Military) 1

Vacc Suit 2

EQUIPMENT

Saber (3D damage)

Laser Carbine (4D damage)

Hostile Environment Vacc Suit (+12 Protection)

Sable Tiger (customized GM-210)

Built on a powerful Galactic Monopoly modular chassis, this sleek ship is packed to the gills with speed. Wrapped in a custom superdense armored hull, the Sable Tiger has the maneuverability and toughness to blast past blockades, returning fire along the way.

Hull 200 ton (Standard, Partially Streamlined – 80 Hull Points)

Armor 4 (Bonded Superdense – 6.4 tons)

Jump 2 parsecs (10 tons)

Thrust 6G (12 tons)

Power 210 (TL 12 – 14 tons – Basic Systems 40, M Drive 120, Jump Drive 40, Sensors 2, Weapons 12)

Fuel 70.6 tons (uses 20 tons per parsec jumped)

Fuel Scoop

Fuel Processor (1 ton – processes 20 tons / day)

Bridge (3 tons)

Computer 15

Sensors – Military Grade (2 tons – power 4) – Radar, Lidar, Jammers

Armaments – 2 x double turrets (2 tons) with:

– beam laser (power 4), sandcaster

– pulse laser (power 4), pulse laser (power 4)

Staterooms 6 (24 tons)

Common Area (5 tons)

Cargo Capacity – 50 tons

Cpn Liv and the Sable Tiger in your Game

Cpn. Liv and the Sable Tiger could be friends, enemies, contacts, allies, or anything else to the players in your Traveller game. Perhaps the Sable Tiger needs crew for some desperate and audacious job? Or they’ve been hired to follow the players and collect a bounty? Or they swoop in to help in response to the player’s distress call? Or they’re rivals, after the same thing as the players?

About Cpn. Liv

I whipped up these characters when the Travellers in my Monday game got rescued from Archeron 4, where they had become stranded. On the spot I came up with Cpn. Liv of the Sabre Tiger, Sgt. Mac, and Jack, her crew. The above stats were generated with the new version of Traveller (Mongoose v2).

Original stats from my campaign notes:

Captain Liv – Lavinia Thunson, captain of the Sabre Tiger (fast trader), St 8, Dx 9, En 6, In 8, Ed 6, So 3.

Sabre Tiger crew – Mac (ex imperial trooper), Jack (the friendly one), Zack (mechanic), Hailey (Mechanic), and Cookie (steward)