Golden Age Starships 2: Corsair
Golden Age Starships 2: Corsair is a complete game supplement for the Mongoose Traveller roleplaying game. Full stats are included for Mongoose Traveller¸ but this supplement is suitable for use with any version of Traveller¸ or indeed with other rules sets.
This booklet contains complete information and deckplans for an upgraded variant of the 400 ton Corsair¸ known as the Buccaneer class. This corsair class is suitable as a ship that could be encountered by characters if they are travelling anywhere on the fringes of the Imperium and beyond¸ although the specific encounters listed in this book are located in the Spinward Marches. Alternatively¸ this design could be used as the basis of a corsair campaign¸ with the players taking roles as pirates. Any of the scenarios presented in this book could be used as the basis for a corsair campaign.
Golden Age Starships 2: Corsair also details five corsair bands operating in the Spinward Marches¸ along with artwork depicting each corsair. Each band is presented with Mongoose Traveller NPC statistics of the band's leaders and associates¸ strategy¸ tactics¸ operating area¸ known bases¸ and guidelines for characters encountering each band. One band is a privateer group¸ one a "chivalrous" operator¸ as well as three more conventional cut-throat bands.
While the corsair bands are presented as operating in the Marches¸ these can easily be lifted to any part of Charted Space and other times.
Author Quote:
"As well as detailing the ships¸ Corsair provides colorful background details of several pirate bands¸ their leaders and their ships. These groups might be an incidental encounter¸ an ongoing nemesis¸ or players could become part of one of the bands for reasons of their own."