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* CantDropTheHero: Any expeditionary party always includes you, the captain.
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* NoAntagonist: Unusually for the series there is no one BigBad for the book. The ''Traveller'' has been marooned in unexplored space via natural causes and while you certainly can encounter belligerent aliens or machines no one is speciffically trying to prevent you returning home.

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* NoAntagonist: Unusually for the series there is no one BigBad for the book. The ''Traveller'' has been marooned in unexplored space via natural causes and while you certainly can encounter belligerent aliens or machines machines, no one is speciffically specifically trying to prevent you returning home.



* StandardStarshipScuffle: It's called Ship-to-Ship Combat, not to be confused with the YMMV item of the same name.

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* StandardStarshipScuffle: It's called Ship-to-Ship Combat, not to be confused with the YMMV item trope of the same name.
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* DependingOnTheArtist: The Manslayer Robot is a ''lot'' bigger in the redrawn cover.

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* DependingOnTheArtist: The Manslayer Robot is a ''lot'' bigger and bulkier in the redrawn cover.

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Authority Equals Asskicking is now a disambiguation page


* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: The non-security officers suffer a Skill penalty in combat. All of them except you, the captain.
-->Your combat skills are the equal of your professional skills, as befits a true hero.


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* RankScalesWithAsskicking: The non-security officers suffer a Skill penalty in combat. All of them except you, the captain.
-->Your combat skills are the equal of your professional skills, as befits a true hero.
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Taking place in the distant future, the space-faring vessel, Starship ''Traveller'', has been sucked into a black hole and flung across the cosmos, into a parallel universe. You, the hero of the story, are the captain of the ''Traveller'', and it is your duty to navigate and explore planets and faraway worlds to find a way back to Earth.

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Taking place in the distant future, the space-faring vessel, Starship ''Traveller'', has been sucked into a black hole and flung across the cosmos, into a parallel universe. You, the hero of the story, are the captain of the ''Traveller'', and it is your duty to navigate and explore planets and faraway worlds to find a way back to Earth.
your rightful universe.
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* DespairEventHorizon: If you don't find both a black hole sector number and stardate, the ship will just wander through space aimlessly (with some of the crew being DrivenToSuicide) and finally fling itself at the first black hole they find out of desperation (which will naturally destroy them).
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* ReplacementGoldfish: If you lose any of your officers, you'll get a replacement trainee who has a lower SKILL stats and is strictly forbidden from leaving the ship for space exploration.

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* ReplacementGoldfish: If you lose any of your officers, you'll get a replacement trainee who has a lower SKILL stats stat and is strictly forbidden from leaving the ship for space exploration.
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* ReplacementGoldfish: If you lose any of your officers, you'll get a replacement trainee who have lower SKILL stats and is strictly forbidden from leaving the ship for space exploration.

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* ReplacementGoldfish: If you lose any of your officers, you'll get a replacement trainee who have has a lower SKILL stats and is strictly forbidden from leaving the ship for space exploration.
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* UnwinnableByDesign: To win in the end, you must find the correct sector number and stardate. If you don't find them or find the wrong ones, you'll lose.
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* CaptureAndReplicate: In one of the bad endings you end up getting captured and used to create an identical clone of yourself which takes over your position as Captain and orders your entire crew to leave, leaving you stranded on an alien planet...

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* CaptureAndReplicate: In one of the bad endings you end up getting captured and used to create an identical clone of yourself which yourself. It then takes over your position as Captain and orders your entire crew to leave, leaving you stranded on an alien planet...

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