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* ''Traveller 5'' - [[Vaporware]] until 2012, when Marc Miller crowd-funded a ''Traveller 5th Edition'' via [[Kickstarter]].<ref>[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/traveller5/traveller-5th-edition Campaign page here].</ref> This edition was released in 2013.
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* [[Absolute Xenophobe]]: the K'kree, toward any creature anywhere that can be classified as a carnivore.
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* [[Beleaguered Bureaucrat]]: In ''[[GURPS]] Traveller: Interstellar Wars'', the Vilani Imperium was deliberately organized to make the Emperor this. The idea was that there would be less volatility if everything was slowed down.
* [[Big Badass Wolf]]: The Vargr
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** The FGMP-15 (Fusion Gun, Man Portable). It includes a gravitic compensator so you could theoretically carry and fire it unarmored. If you survive the radiation it releases all over the place when fired, that is.
** The earlier PGMP (Plasma Gun) all but requires [[Powered Armor]] to be fired by a human without high-level augmentation.
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* [[Heroic Dolphin]]s: In one sourcebook, a story is told of some uplifted sapient dolphins who helped bring to light a scandal involving the secret enslavement of an intelligent species by a megacorporation.
* [[Hero of Another Story]]: A typical NPC has a good chance of being this.
* [[Hidden Depths]]: ''Traveller'' itself. This is easily underestimated because RPGs are a pop art. However, the detail of this setting is even more than that of ''[[Dune]]'', and the flexibility is greater.
* [[Hired Guns]]: This is a popular background for games. There are a large number of [[Private Military Contractors]] available for hire.
* [[Honor Before Reason]]: The Aslan ''Fteirle'' code.
* [[The Horde]]: Vargr. "Uplifted" wolves who act like, well, wolves.
* [[Human Aliens]]: Many varieties, all of which are descended from humans transplanted from Earth by the [[Precursors|Ancients]], apart from the Solomani who are descended from the humans ''left'' on Earth, i.e. us.
* [[Humans Are the Real Monsters]]: One item of jewelry called Denuli gems is exceedingly rare and harvesting them is banned in the Imperium. The reason? It turns out that they are the ''eggs'' of [[Kick the Dog|low-tech sophont aliens]].▼
* [[Humans Are Leaders]]: All three Imperiums were/are ruled by humans.▼
* [[Humans Are Cthulhu]]: Vargr view humans this way, especially Zhodani (who are regarded that way by ''other humans''). Humans can build large abstract societies which attract [[Undying Loyalty]] from their members, whereas Vargr have trouble giving loyalty to anything but a [[Magnetic Hero]]. As a result humans sometimes appear to Vargr the way a [[Hive Mind]] appears to humans.
▲* [[Humans Are Leaders]]: All three Imperiums were/are ruled by humans.
▲* [[Humans Are the Real Monsters]]: One item of jewelry called Denuli gems is exceedingly rare and harvesting them is banned in the Imperium. The reason? It turns out that they are the ''eggs'' of [[Kick the Dog|low-tech sophont aliens]].
* [[Humans Are Special]]: Most of the known 'verse is dominated by the three races of humans.
* [[Humans Are Their Own Precursors]]: Claimed by the Geonee (a Human subrace), based on the evidence that they discovered in their own star system. They are, of course, {{spoiler|incorrect - they misread the most important evidence of all}}.
* [[Humans Are Warriors]]:
** The Solomani have long had a far greater martial reputation than the other two major human races and the Third Imperium's military traditions are largely Solomani. To the extent that 57th-century Imperial Marines aren't that different in culture and ethos from the 20th-century US Marine Corps and Royal Marines, especially in ''TNE''.
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