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Out of the detrius of the failure of Armscor during the collapse (a South African arms amnufacturer), one of the survivors was a small arms CAD and Design firm called Traveller. Traveller had some small scale weapon sales using aircraft-alluminum bodied hunting rifles until Militech started enforcing their claim on the Armscor patent line that they had purchased, nearly sending Traveller out of business (as their designs were all using older Armscor upper receiver units).
Traveller managed a few in-house designs that were used by game wardens throughout Africa, but had little appeal through the rest of the world dominated by the major armament firms. Finally Traveller managed to strike a deal with their old adversary Militech in late 2019 to market their new line of high-reliability Hunting and Paramilitary Rifles. These weapons all share a common heritage to the Traveller Game guns used for the last decade in the game reserves throughout Africa and are noted for their long-term resistance to poor treatment by undertrained users. What this means to you is these guns can be bought for your hunting seasons, and do not require constant attention and maintenance to have them ready for the next season, even if you miss a few in between.
In game terms, althrough these weapons are only ST reliability, their reliability will not be compromised by light to moderate mishandling (getting the weapon dirty, wet, not cleaning after use, etc).
As a side note, all the images are scans from various MegaTraveller basic game books (although they have all seen some amount of editing by the Hound) and are copyright by the now defunct Game Designers Workshop and whoever currently owns the MegaTraveller line.
| Traveller Range Carbine Model 14b |
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RIF · +1 · N · C · 3D6 (.30) · 20 · 2 · ST · 300m
The first of the line, the Range Carbine is in use by most Game Wardens and Park Rangers in the game reserves and national parks throughout Africa, and has been in use here for almost a decade throughout the various models (dating back to the Model 3 with wooden furniture instead of the all-polymer construction of the current models). To suit most export laws for civilian firearms, the pistol grip is mated to the thumbhole stock assembly, which contains the magazine loaded in by lifting the buttplate of the stock in a similar fashion to the Heckler & Koch G11.
The action is a classic .30 Carbine in a gas-action automatic. This old-world cased ammo is still easy to produce in fair quality and was selected for it's endurance in the field. The magazine is quite unusual in shape and design, having to feed into the gun parrallel to the action, but the feed mechanism is quite standard and reliable, with the ejection port firing the casing directly upwards and forwards of the gun, making it good for ambidextrous use. In this configuration the Model 14 retails for 350eb.
An export model, the Model 15a, is available with a slightly longer stock (1") and which feeds standard cased 5.56mm (.223) ammo. It is just entering the marketplace with a list price of 450eb. For the urban marketplace, the foregrip in both models can easily accomodate a laser sight or tactical flashlight rig without changing the silhouette of the rifle.
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| Traveller Advanced Range Rifle |
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RIF · +1 · N · C · 5D6 (7mm) · 22 · 2 · ST · 400m
A full-scale rifle with a caseless action, the Advanced Range Rifle (ARR) is otherwise very similar to the Range Carbine, with thumbhole stock, rear-entry magazine feed and a standard blowback gas action. This rifle has recently been issued to some wardens and has received favourable reviews. The caseless action is at least as reliable as the model 14's old-style cased action, without an ejection port to reduce entry points for dirt into the gun. There is a small hatch on the top of the gun that can be opened to clear misfires, but this is a manual operation, and the seals are excellent to prevent contamination of the chamber.
The low index of the barrel and the long length afforded by the bullpup action reduce felt recoil to an almost negligible impulse, slightly less than the Federated Arms rifle with which it shares the basic 7mm Caseless action.
Again the foregrip is empty and allows for the easy addition of a laser sight or tactical flashlight rig without change to the weapon's silhouette.
The basic TARR retails at 400eb, with a 5.56CL edition at 450eb and in the PacRim 5.5mm Caseless (in indonesia) for 400eb.
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| Traveller Assault Rifle Model 22 |
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RIF · +1 · N · C · 5D6 (5.56CL) · 30 · 1/20 · ST · 400m
Traveller's first exclusively military weapon since the turn of the millenium, the Traveller ARM22 was designed as a low-cost competitor with most modern 5.56mm firearms and retrofits. The feed and firing mechanism are seemingly identical to the M16 caseless bullpup retrofits, and the rest of the gun follows suit. Instead of the hard polymer shell of all the other Traveller designs, the ARM22 is primarily made of sheet metal stampings with a fairly standard polymer pistol grip and forend. The magazines are in almost all ways identical to those of the M16 series, and are interchangeable with them.
The forend is available in a variety of configurations, with laser sights or tactical flashlights easily assembled into the unit. Shown on the left is the standard forend with integral laser sight, but other desings including slimline, assault grips, etc are available direct from the factory or as after-market kits.
To date, the ARM22 has not been fielded with any corporate or government armies, and it's field perfomance is yet untested (but fear not, we are going to bring a few on our next savannah expedition to test the claims made by the manufacturer regarding the same reliability as their other weapons).
The weapon at left is illustrated with laser sight and Bushnel Interloktm smartlink system, but almost any configuration of sighting systems and electronics can be mounted.
The ARM22 is marketed in North America at a very reasonable 600eb, with choice of forend designs.
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| Traveller Advanced Assault Rifle |
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RIF · +1 · N · C · 6D6-1 (6.5mm) · 30 · 2/20 · ST · 400m
The Advanced Assault Rifle (Model 24) is a carryover between the Model 22 and the rest of the Traveller line. The style of the weapon is similar to most other polymer-framed bullpup Traveller series rifles and carbine, but like the Model 22, it uses a magazine that is loaded into the bottom of the gun instead of the back, thus making it easier to load for those not accustomed to the rest of the Traveller rifles.
The domestic version is sold chambered in 5.56 Caseless, the same load as the Model 22, for maximum interoperability within a force. The Model 24 is targetted for sale to small thrid world nations who want a disticntive gun firing a standard ammo for their officers.
The firearm illustrated at right has been rigged with a top mounted laser sight in addition to the standard ring sights supplied with the gun.
The export edition is chambered in 6.5mm Hybrid due to it's rapid climb in popularity. Unfortunately what this means during the fourth corporate war is a lot of people buying the gun but being unable to procure the ammo as Militech stopped selling the round to be able to supply it to their own troops for the duration of the engagement.
Both editions list at 900eb per unit.
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| Traveller Assault Carbine |
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RIF · +1 · N · C · 5D6 (5.56) · 20 · 2/20 · ST · 300m
HVY · +0 · N · C · 25mm Grenade · 4 · 2 · ST · 300m
The Assault Carbine is quite simply the Range Carbine (5.56mm export edition) with a select-fire action and an undermounted integral grenade launcher. Due to their new deal with Militech, the grenade launcher (originally slated to be a 35mm GL firing proprietary grenades) is a custom version of the classic Militech 25mm system, allowing it to use a standard grenade load, which broadens it's appeal to many more users.
The Grenade Launcher uses an integral magazine of 4 rounds with a standard semi-automatic feed. Firing the GL requires flipping a selector switch to GL, and then the standard trigger is used.
The action of the weapon is pure 5.56 gas-action. Once again the magazine slides in from the back of the stock but the feed mechanism inside looks like the feed from any number of mid to late 20th century assault rifles.
One end-user complaint that the unique magazine feed entailed was the inability to use extended magazines, but this is countered by the the same system's ability to keep dirt and other contaminants out of the system.
The system lists currently at 950eb.
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| Traveller Advanced Combat Rifle |
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RIF · +1 · N · C · 5D6 (7mm) · 22 · 2/25 · ST · 400m
HVY · +1 · N · C · 25mm Grenade · 4 · 2 · ST · 300m
The Advanced Combat Rifle is at heart the Advanced Range Rifle undergoing the same treatment as the Assault Carbine above. The weapon has been converted to selective fire and has had an integral 4-shot 25mm Militech Grenade Launcher slaved to it.
User reviews are similar to those for the Carbine, with the same shortcomings and the same advantages.
The main selling point of the weapon are the number of ammo configurations available. 7mm Caseless (from the Federated Arms LA15), 5.56mm Caseless, and 5.5mm Pac Rim Caseless, each weapon system currently lists at 1,100eb
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