Eodin

There was a point in time when I was writing the thing that I got feedback that (1) we were including material that licensing would not allow and (2) Comstar would prefer 2 smaller books (hence book 1 and book 2) instead of 1 big book.  So that's why big chunks of stuff went bye-bye for what became books 1 and 2. I haven't seen the single version contents, but I assume it was one such version before the change, or a version after I gave Comstar all my InDesign files.

I was looking in the Hero store to see if there were any PDFs I wanted to buy, and saw the Traveler HERO 5th pdfs there for sale.  So I did a forum search and found this thread again.
 
One of my gaming/college friends has run a number of Traveller HERO campaigns over the years, and I'm glad to see that the work continues to live on.  My only complaint is that Shadowcat and I and Randy never got a penny out of the deal, but that's the fan author's life I guess. Our payment was being involved in something we enjoyed.
 
Fifteen years ago... 

There was a point in time when I was writing the thing that I got feedback that (1) we were including material that licensing would not allow and (2) Comstar would prefer 2 smaller books (hence book 1 and book 2) instead of 1 big book.  So that's why big chunks of stuff went bye-bye for what became books 1 and 2. I haven't seen the single version contents, but I assume it was one such version before the change, or a version after I gave Comstar all my InDesign files.

I too am late to the conversation, heard from Kevin and Polaris recently.
It's been a while, so my memory of the various issues and constraints is somewhat murky.
Psionics, I had no information in the Traveller source material to use as a gauge on what the energy use (END/REC) would convert to, so the END rules were best guess. 
Profession templates - as Kevin already said, we couldn't reprint the existing material, since it's owned by HERO. 
Races - again, can't do an direct reprint of the existing material, since someone else owns it.  I do remember someone commenting we should have included a method to randomly generate characters and their backgrounds the way Traveller does. I didn't think about it at the time, HERO is about spending points to build what you want and Traveller was about random, so I went with HERO, since it was Traveller HERO.
But all in all I think it turned out fairly well.
 
Sounds like Don and Kevin and group are making progress with Marc Miller on making things available again, so fingers crossed.

There was a point in time when I was writing the thing that I got feedback that (1) we were including material that licensing would not allow and (2) Comstar would prefer 2 smaller books (hence book 1 and book 2) instead of 1 big book.  So that's why big chunks of stuff went bye-bye for what became books 1 and 2. I haven't seen the single version contents, but I assume it was one such version before the change, or a version after I gave Comstar all my InDesign files.

I was looking in the Hero store to see if there were any PDFs I wanted to buy, and saw the Traveler HERO 5th pdfs there for sale.  So I did a forum search and found this thread again.
 
One of my gaming/college friends has run a number of Traveller HERO campaigns over the years, and I'm glad to see that the work continues to live on.  My only complaint is that Shadowcat and I and Randy never got a penny out of the deal, but that's the fan author's life I guess. Our payment was being involved in something we enjoyed.
 
Fifteen years ago... 

I was looking in the Hero store to see if there were any PDFs I wanted to buy, and saw the Traveler HERO 5th pdfs there for sale.  So I did a forum search and found this thread again.
 
One of my gaming/college friends has run a number of Traveller HERO campaigns over the years, and I'm glad to see that the work continues to live on.  My only complaint is that Shadowcat and I and Randy never got a penny out of the deal, but that's the fan author's life I guess. Our payment was being involved in something we enjoyed.
 
Fifteen years ago... 

There was a point in time when I was writing the thing that I got feedback that (1) we were including material that licensing would not allow and (2) Comstar would prefer 2 smaller books (hence book 1 and book 2) instead of 1 big book.  So that's why big chunks of stuff went bye-bye for what became books 1 and 2. I haven't seen the single version contents, but I assume it was one such version before the change, or a version after I gave Comstar all my InDesign files.

I was looking in the Hero store to see if there were any PDFs I wanted to buy, and saw the Traveler HERO 5th pdfs there for sale.  So I did a forum search and found this thread again.
 
One of my gaming/college friends has run a number of Traveller HERO campaigns over the years, and I'm glad to see that the work continues to live on.  My only complaint is that Shadowcat and I and Randy never got a penny out of the deal, but that's the fan author's life I guess. Our payment was being involved in something we enjoyed.
 
Fifteen years ago... 

There was a point in time when I was writing the thing that I got feedback that (1) we were including material that licensing would not allow and (2) Comstar would prefer 2 smaller books (hence book 1 and book 2) instead of 1 big book.  So that's why big chunks of stuff went bye-bye for what became books 1 and 2. I haven't seen the single version contents, but I assume it was one such version before the change, or a version after I gave Comstar all my InDesign files.

I've started running a "Victoriana" campaign, and Widening Gyre is of of my minor sources.  It's a good book.
I'd love to see a Victorian Hero or Steampunk Hero the size of Pulp Hero, but that won't happen.  In my campaign I'm combining pieces from Cowboy Hero, Horror Hero, Widening Gyre, GURPS Steampunk, Victoriana, Castle Falkenstein, and several others just to get the pieces of all the things happening in a magictech world of 1866. Lots of stuff!  And since mine is based in the San Francisco, not London, there are different assumptions about the goings on.
But I digress. Bill Keyes did a great job with his Widening Gyre. 

Thanks! Glad to hear a few people still enjoy them. 
By the way, the Star HERO Fandom website belongs to Arooo. Back in the day he had offered to host my Trek pdfs, since he was already hosting his Babylon 5 HERO and something else. 

Thanks! Glad to hear a few people still enjoy them. 
By the way, the Star HERO Fandom website belongs to Arooo. Back in the day he had offered to host my Trek pdfs, since he was already hosting his Babylon 5 HERO and something else. 

I wrote TOS Hero (and later TNG Hero at the request of another Hero-ite).  I grabbed whatever artwork was available on the net, no licensing or connection with paramount. 
I've had a few people ask if I'm going to update those setting books to 6th edition, and the answer is probably not. At the time I used Adobe In-Design, but when Adobe changed from buy software to subscription model, I quit using the product, so I'd have to start from scratch in some new program.  Same with all the TravellerHERO stuff I did, the In-Design files are no longer usable. Glad to see Shadowcat's still doing what he can to keep it available in some fashion.

I've started running a "Victoriana" campaign, and Widening Gyre is of of my minor sources.  It's a good book.
I'd love to see a Victorian Hero or Steampunk Hero the size of Pulp Hero, but that won't happen.  In my campaign I'm combining pieces from Cowboy Hero, Horror Hero, Widening Gyre, GURPS Steampunk, Victoriana, Castle Falkenstein, and several others just to get the pieces of all the things happening in a magictech world of 1866. Lots of stuff!  And since mine is based in the San Francisco, not London, there are different assumptions about the goings on.
But I digress. Bill Keyes did a great job with his Widening Gyre. 

I've started running a "Victoriana" campaign, and Widening Gyre is of of my minor sources.  It's a good book.
I'd love to see a Victorian Hero or Steampunk Hero the size of Pulp Hero, but that won't happen.  In my campaign I'm combining pieces from Cowboy Hero, Horror Hero, Widening Gyre, GURPS Steampunk, Victoriana, Castle Falkenstein, and several others just to get the pieces of all the things happening in a magictech world of 1866. Lots of stuff!  And since mine is based in the San Francisco, not London, there are different assumptions about the goings on.
But I digress. Bill Keyes did a great job with his Widening Gyre. 

I've started running a "Victoriana" campaign, and Widening Gyre is of of my minor sources.  It's a good book.
I'd love to see a Victorian Hero or Steampunk Hero the size of Pulp Hero, but that won't happen.  In my campaign I'm combining pieces from Cowboy Hero, Horror Hero, Widening Gyre, GURPS Steampunk, Victoriana, Castle Falkenstein, and several others just to get the pieces of all the things happening in a magictech world of 1866. Lots of stuff!  And since mine is based in the San Francisco, not London, there are different assumptions about the goings on.
But I digress. Bill Keyes did a great job with his Widening Gyre. 

Re: Miniaturized Manufacturing Units?
 
FWIW, from the TNGHero pdf,
 
Cost Industrial Replicator System
80 Industrial Replicator System: Multipower, 240-point reserve,
all OIF Immobile (-1 1/2), Extra Time (Full phase; -1/2)
6u 1) Small Object Replication: Transform 4d6 (Major), Air to
Any Object programmed into system (+1), Continuous (+1)
(180 Active Points); OIF Immobile (-1 1/2), Extra Time (Full
phase; -1/2)
8u 2) Large Object Replication: Transform 4d6 (Major), Air to Any
Object programmed into system (+1), Continuous (+1),
Area Effect 8 hexes (+1) (240 Active Points); OIF Immobile
(-1 1/2), Extra Time (Full phase; -1/2)
Total Cost: 94 points.