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When it comes to conflict, Travelers don't have much of an organized army. It wouldn't be much of an army anyway, with all its foot soldiers following a code of enlightened self interest. So the Travelers often rely on mercenaries to handle relatively large combat operations. For lower profile work, like taking out a would-be competitor outside the family, a Traveler would probably hire a thug or assassin to “encourage” their foe to the sidelines. |
When it comes to conflict, Travelers don't have much of an organized army. It wouldn't be much of an army anyway, with all its foot soldiers following a code of enlightened self interest. So the Travelers often rely on mercenaries to handle relatively large combat operations. For lower profile work, like taking out a would-be competitor outside the family, a Traveler would probably hire a thug or assassin to “encourage” their foe to the sidelines. |
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Revision as of 23:15, 22 September 2009
Overview
- Leader: All settlements have their own leader
- Home base: None
- Allies: Techs, CHOTA
- Enemies: Vistas, Enforcers
- Arch-enemy: Lightbearers
Origin and Makeup
Need something in the Grand Canyon Province? Maybe you're tracking down information. Perhaps you're looking for a rare weapon design. Or could be you just want a little payback for some guy who double-crossed you in a deal gone bad. In any case if you've got the chips to spend, the Travelers can help.
If it can be known, they'll learn it.
If it can be found, they'll track it down.
If it can be bought, they'll haggle.
If it needs killing, they'll put a shiv in its back.
Enjoying a rather casual moral attitude, the Travelers are a loose affiliation of “families” that have their fingers poked into a variety of pies: performance troupes, gambling, information brokering, smuggling, narcotics, kneecapping, and even assassinations. It's all about business, even if it sometimes gets personal.
The Travelers aren't much for noble gestures. Got a plan that doesn't involve profit? Count them out. Travelers normally don't like playing the margins and won't get involved in moralistic crusades that threaten the bottom line. Despite this attitude all Travelers share a common code, developed during the grand summit of the seven families in 2122. The Traveler Code:
- Problems within the Travelers are settled with words before blood.
- When a Traveler kills a Traveler, the action must be justified before a neutral arbitrator or the offending traveler must pay a penalty.
- Family before Traveler. Traveler before everyone else.
- Never take a fellow Traveler's last coin or only weapon.
- Once given to a fellow Traveler, a Traveler's word is his bond.
They're in it for the money, or, if chips aren't involved, they're in it for whatever's best for them. It's a rare Traveler who wants to be a hero. Most just want to live to profit another day. But some Travelers want to be liked. They want to be popular. For many, it's about greed. For others, it's about celebrity. For some, it's about power and influence. But all within the Travelers are connected by a desire to live without bounds, out from under the yoke of draconian authorities. And all Travelers don't like to lose.
When it comes to conflict, Travelers don't have much of an organized army. It wouldn't be much of an army anyway, with all its foot soldiers following a code of enlightened self interest. So the Travelers often rely on mercenaries to handle relatively large combat operations. For lower profile work, like taking out a would-be competitor outside the family, a Traveler would probably hire a thug or assassin to “encourage” their foe to the sidelines.
The Travelers don't have much in the way of hierarchy. Each settlement or caravan is ruled by its own leader who chooses his own name, leading to a variety of Kings, Emperors, Barons, Bosses, and Presidents among the Traveler settlements. They don't often listen to each other, but they all listen to the sound of money.
Relationships
Their uncanny ability to get things all over the Province make the Travelers useful allies to the Techs. The shared experience of living outside the confines of Hoover Dam and access to maps and information make the Travelers unlikely allies for the chaos-loving CHOTA. On the other hand, profiteering and amoral leanings put the Travelers at direct odds with the Lightbearers. Disdain for law and order makes the Enforcers unpopular with the Travelers. A lackadaisical attitude about how they affect the environment pits them against the Vistas.
Slang
Rat Pack, The - Common nickname for the heads of the various Traveler families.
Waste Walkers - CHOTA vulgar for Travelers.
Skills
Traveler proficiencies are:
- Good: Athletics, Pistol, Stealth, Science, Dodge, few mutation skills
- Average: Melee, Rifle, Armor Use, Nature, Ballistics, few mutation skills
- Poor: First Aid, Genetics, Group Tactics, Medicine, most mutations