The Traveller/Fushigi Yuugi Crossover

This one is self-insertion beyond belief. The intended audience numbers four, including myself. The only reason I'm putting this up is on the off chance that someone wants to read a mildly entertaining, super-psychotic, uber-violent romp in the Fushigi Yuugi setting.

In case you're new to Traveller, allow me to give you some background. Traveller is a science-fiction role-playing game, the same way Dungeons & Dragons is a fantasy role-playing game. Although, instead of a dungeon crawl, the player-characters engage in ship-to-ship battles, or ground adventures, or political intrigue, or -- well, the list goes on. It's a role-playing game where the weapon of choice is a gauss rifle instead of a sword (at least that's the weapon of my choice).

The self-insertion part is easy -- one of the main characters, Jackson Sakurako, is my Traveller character.

To be quite honest, I did not start out wanting to write a Trav/FY crossover. The idea came to me as I considered Yui's relationship with Nakago. Yui is a fifteen year old girl who's been through some traumatic shocks, the least of which is being suddenly transported to a different world with a different paradigm (I paid good money for that word!). Nakago, who is most likely a genius in matters military, and, as we learn during the course of the series, an expert manipulator, is more than a match for Yui. How on earth can she resist the manipulations of this expert? He plays her like a fiddle. He plays his enemies like a virtuoso. He needs to be stopped.

Enter Jackson.

I wanted a character who was a match for Nakago to play the part of Seiryuu no Miko. That character had to be no stranger to intrigues, and a mind for tactics would be a definite bonus. Jackson was perfect for this role.

At first, I was going to pit Jackson as Seiryuu no Miko against Miaka as Suzaku no Miko. Then I told my darling husband about my intentions. Darling Husband is also our Game Master for our Traveller games, so he had a pip of a suggestion:

Why not make Anna Di'Amato Suzaku no Miko?

My response: Oh. My. Gawd.

Thinks it over some more.

Oh. My. F***ing. Gawd.

Laughs hysterically.

Anna Who??????

Anna is one of our favorite NPCs -- Non Player Characters, to you non-gamers. Basically, an NPC is a character that the Game Master brings in to help us out and give us information, or provide amusement, or whatever. Anna Di'Amato is part of the ship's crew. She was a stewardess until she got drafted into the Imperial Army, and then got stationed on a hell-hole of a planet called Efate, during a hell-hole of a war. Think Viet-Nam, but much nastier. I won't go into Anna's experiences here, even though I reference them in the story. See what I mean about limited audience?

Needless to say, Anna is our pet psychopath. We love her.

This also changes the motivations of a number of characters in the story.

Spoilers . . .

. . .and Other Strangers

• Violence? Check.
• Explicit Language? Check.
• Graphic Sex? Negative.

Traveller Science Fiction Role-Playing Game is copyright and trademarked by Marc Miller and Far Future Enterprises. No infringement intended.

Other characters -- especially Jackson and Anna -- are copyright myself and my husband respectively. Please don't use them without asking.

Sor is copyright Dawn Smith. Roger Severn is copyright Joel A. Gray. Dr. Thad Knobell is copyright Victor Manuel. Leeandra O'Leary is copyright Micki Manuel. Paddy Finnegan, Megan, and Scatter are copyright my husband. Please don't use without permission.

Traveller Glossary

• Aslan - A leonid (lion-like) lifeform, bipedal, with opposing thumbs. The thumbs also conceal a "dewclaw", a completely retractable claw that happens to be one of their favorite forms of combat.
• Comdot - a type of two-way communicator or radio. One piece goes on the throat, the other behind the ear. They look like moles. The characters can communicate subvocally through them. And they're certainly more aesthetically pleasing than those headset microphones.
• Gauss Rifle - Frosti's weapon of choice *grin*. It uses an electronic field to propel a metal slug. Forty rounds per clip. It can fire semi-auto or full automatic.
• Indig - an epithet used to refer to the indigenous people, in this case, the indigenous people of a planet or world.
• I.M.C. - A ship designation (rather like "S.S." or "R.M.S."). In this case, it stands for Imperial Mercenary Cruiser
• Imperium - A huge collection of worlds run through a bureaucracy. At the top is an Emperor, and a bunch of nobles. They don't really concern us, but the Imperium is where the Traveller characters live, and have adventures in and around. It's basically our playground.
• Jump Space - This 'un's a little harder to explain. Instead of FTL (Faster Than Light) where the ship travels space at a speed faster than light speed, the ships engage their jump drives, which essentially create a dimensional rift that the ship travels through from point A to point B, thereby shortening travel time immensely. In the Traveller game, ships don't have FTL, but they have Jump Drives. It is possible for ships to "mis-Jump" or have all manner of mishaps (they're almost all pretty unpleasant, so I won't go into them here).
• Merc - Short for Mercenary, a professional soldier.
• Rejuv - A process in which reverses the aging process in a person. It's pretty darn expensive, but the results are worth it.
• Solomani - The Traveller term for humans that come from our solar system. AKA Terran humans. As opposed to "Vilani", the Imperial humans (which, actually, are descended from Terran stock . . . but you won't need to know that for the story).
• Vargr - Lupid (wolf-like) lifeforms, also bipedal, with opposable thumbs. Originating from Terran wolf-stock. They're rather sensitive about being called "sons of bitches", or anything referring to dogs. The tend towards the pack mentality. Think Ashitare without the mental problems.

More terms will be added as they come up.