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Episode 0 - Trailer

dimanche 3 août 2025 • Durée 02:54

Introducing Signals from the Core, a new podcast for referees and players of Mongoose Traveller 2nd Edition, exploring the Core Sector of Charted Space.

Each episode delivers original adventure seeds, story hooks, patrons, encounters, and more, ready for you to drop into your campaign.

These aren’t your typical stories Behind the Claw. These are high-stakes adventures set in the heart of the Third Imperium.

Power. Protocol. Secrets. It all happens here.

Signals from the Core. Coming soon wherever you get your podcasts.

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Episode 1: Core Sector First Look - Nothing Stays Hidden Forever

Saison 1 · Épisode 1

mercredi 6 août 2025 • Durée 27:08

Welcome to the debut episode of Signals from the Core, a podcast for Mongoose Traveller 2nd Edition set deep within the tangled heart of the Third Imperium. We begin our exploration of the political, cultural, and bureaucratic intricacies of the Core Sector, a region shaped by protocol, ambition, and buried secrets. In addition to a sector overview we introduce an original adventure hook, “The Last Grant,” where the Travellers must uncover the secrets of a forgotten research project shrouded beneath layers of Imperial bureaucracy. But remember, nothing in the Core stays hidden forever.

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Episode 2: Gameplay in the Core Pt. 1 - Power Wears a Smile

Saison 1 · Épisode 2

mercredi 20 août 2025 • Durée 46:41

In this episode of Signals from the Core, we dive into what makes player characters in the Core Sector different from the usual Travellers on the fringes of space. From ambitious nobles and burned agents to psionic exiles, scholars, and streetwise fixers, we explore the backgrounds, skills, and archetypes best suited to survive in the Imperium’s most dangerous halls of power. You’ll also meet Baron Laird Tenpenny, a patron with plenty of ambition—and a list of jobs that could make your Travellers rich, well-connected... or wishing they never met.

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Episode 3: Gameplay in the Core Pt. 2 – Alliances Carry a Price

Saison 1 · Épisode 3

jeudi 4 septembre 2025 • Durée 39:28

The Core is less about firepower and more about relationships. In this episode, we look at how referees can run Core-sector campaigns, how players can thrive within them, and why alliances are never simple. Then, we close with a high-stakes adventure seed for Mongoose Traveller 2nd Edition, The Black Census, set in the very heart of Capital.

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Episode 4: Nobility in the Core – Proxies, Whispers, and Rivalries

Saison 1 · Épisode 4

lundi 22 septembre 2025 • Durée 43:07

In the Mongoose Traveller 2nd Edition roleplaying game, the nobility of the Imperium shapes politics, precedent, and the flow of power. In this episode of Signals from the Core, we explore the hidden machinery of Imperial society. Inside the Moot Spire and beyond, influence moves through committee reports, whispered deals, and family rivalries that never fade. Referees and players alike will see how ceremony and intrigue create adventures unique to the Core. Plus, we debut new segments: The Referee’s Workshop, System Spotlight, and Core Creatures, each adding new tools and inspiration for your Core-sector Traveller gameplay.

Have questions, comments, or want to submit an idea for a future episode? Reach out at coresignalsmail@gmail.com

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Episode 6: Creating a Sandbox in the Core - A Detailed Look at Singularity

Saison 1 · Épisode 6

lundi 13 avril 2026 • Durée 01:11:49

In this episode of Signals from the Core, we take a deep dive into Mongoose Traveller’s massive Singularity campaign, written by Christopher Griffen, and explore why it may be one of the richest resources yet published for running adventures in the Core Sector.

We look at how the Singularity Sourcebook and its Companion material can fuel a high-status Core sandbox full of intrigue, prestige, and emergent chaos.

If you’ve been curious about the Singularity campaign for Mongoose Traveller 2nd edition, or you want sharper tools for running elite passengers and touring the center of the Third Imperium, this episode is packed with material to mine.

As always, send your signals to coresignalsmail@gmail.com or find us wherever you are on social media: https://linktr.ee/signalsfromthecore

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Episode 5: Bureaucracy in the Core – Policy, Procedure, and Protocol

Saison 1 · Épisode 5

lundi 30 mars 2026 • Durée 54:08

In the Mongoose Traveller 2nd Edition roleplaying game, the Imperial Bureaucracy is the machine that holds eleven thousand worlds together through paperwork, procedure, and pencil pushers. In this episode of Signals from the Core, we explore how the ministries, jurisdictions, and civil servants of the Third Imperium create one of the richest and most overlooked sources of adventure in the setting.

Learn how Referees of Traveller can use the audit trails, procedural complications, and the sheer weight of Imperial red tape in the Core Sector to generate friction, intrigue, and consequence at the table.

Plus, we look at a new Bureaucrat career for Mongoose 2nd Edition and take the Diplomat skill into the Referee's Workshop.

Have questions, comments, or want to submit an idea for a future episode? Reach out at coresignalsmail@gmail.com

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Episode 8: Launching a Traveller Campaign in the Core Pt. 2 - Old Crew Blues

Saison 1 · Épisode 8

lundi 11 mai 2026 • Durée 53:56

In the Mongoose Traveller 2nd Edition roleplaying game, an established crew brings something a fresh group can't. Shared history. A ship. A reputation. Patrons, contacts, rivals, and a running storyline the players that should continue even with a new campaign on the table. In this episode of Signals from the Core, we look at how Referees can launch Christopher Griffen's Singularity campaign for a veteran team.

We walk through a three-beat recruitment escalation built for crews who already know the score. Then, for groups that need a sharper push, we dig into the design logic for misfortune-based hooks. Group-level pressure on shared assets designed to shift the status quo.

We explore ways to balance collective motives with personal ones and the emergent storytelling opportunities in the gaps between.

As always, send your signals to coresignalsmail@gmail.com or find us wherever you are on social media: https://linktr.ee/signalsfromthecore

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Episode 7: Launching a Traveller Campaign in the Core Pt. 1

Saison 1 · Épisode 7

lundi 27 avril 2026 • Durée 58:43

In the Mongoose Traveller 2nd Edition roleplaying game, character creation does half the work of building adventures before the first session even begins. The dice generate careers, mishaps, events, and connections, handing the player a person they didn't fully design and asking them to make sense of it. In this episode of Signals from the Core, we look at how Referees can extend that same logic into the launch of Christopher Griffen's Singularity campaign, specifically for groups starting fresh with newly rolled-up Travellers.

We walk through two approaches to running the Act 1 opening sequence. First, a series of individual recruitment vignettes, one per player, where the recruiter knows things about the Traveller they shouldn't. Second, a random-roll capper at the end of muster-out, with 2D6 tables that hand each player a specific reason for heading off to Capital.

Then, we hand the question back to the players. Why are you going? Exploring some sample answers to spark the conversation, each one a thread the Referee can pull at later.

Plus, listener responses on how Referees prep their players for new campaigns, with thoughts from the Traveller community on Facebook and Reddit.

As always, send your signals to coresignalsmail@gmail.com or find us wherever you are on social media: https://linktr.ee/signalsfromthecore

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Episode 9: Capital of the Core – The Throne World, City by City

Saison 1 · Épisode 9

mardi 2 juin 2026 • Durée 01:23:01

In this episode of Signals from the Core, we take our first deep dive into Capital, throne world of the Third Imperium. Twenty billion people. A Grand floating palace, Cleon, the Moot Spire … These are the things we always hear about Capital and learn from sourcebooks that tend to cover the whole planet in just a handful of pages.

We dive into the Third Imperium Sourcebook by Christopher Griffen and how you can interpret a few fixed points provided in it to turn one spot on the subsector map into a vibrant, textured setting of many diverse locations where Travellers can find work, trouble, and adventure, meeting new contacts, enemies and allies.

We tackle the population puzzle, compare the Traveller Wiki information to what Mongoose provides, and explore the throne world city by city across the municipalities marked on the published world map. Plus, how I learned to stop fretting and love the vague nature of Traveller's UWP and the scant info provided in many of its sourcebooks.

Send your signals to coresignalsmail@gmail.com, or find us wherever you are: https://linktr.ee/signalsfromthecore

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