4) Starship Traveller Solution

[champskees]

Starship Traveller is a unique entry in the FF series as you do not need to roll any dice to complete the adventure (aside from generating your starting stats). This solution is the 'true path' solution; it is quick, it is boring and uneventful, but it can be fun and satisfying finding this on your own.

- Press on towards the life bearing system ahead.
- Leave orbit & continue onwards.
- Plot a course to avoid it.
- Press onwards.
- Leave orbit & continue onwards.
- Investigate the small grey planet.
- Tell them to return to your ship.
- Seal off the docking bay.
- Evacuate the air from all the affected sections.
- Head for the blue planet.
- Beam down & visit the planet.
- Thank him, but politely decline.
- Accept his offer & go through the portal.
- Step forward through the portal.
- Go left.
- Go left.
- Go right.
- Go left.
- Step off the path into space.
- Add Note: Sector 159.
- Continue into deep space.
- Continue onwards.
- Ignore the planet & continue on your journey.
- Enter hyperspace & jump towards a small black planet.
- Ignore this planet and proceed towards another.
- Beam down to the planet.
- Follow the child.
- Search for a passage to your own universe.
- Record Stardate 21.
- Honour your agreement.
- You have the time & space coordinates of the black hole.
- 159 - 21 = 138. Turn to Para 138.
- You have made it through the black hole and back into your own universe. You have successfully guided the Traveller and its crew, safely home.

[vastariner]

One of the best visualizations of the solution to any FF book is this one:



And it's one of the first I saw...

[greenspine]

That is magnificent.

Though my pedantic streak will not let go of the fact that the book doesn't have 400 sections.

[johnbrawn1972]

I am not going to be so pedantic as to post an identical solution when every character can be 7-14-7 and the solution is set in stone.

[weaselfierce]

Not sure if OP is still around (or remembers!) but I am curious:
Does the solution skip so many of the planets because they are risks that don't further the mission or are any of them "Visit here and you are now unable to finish the book" ?

[greenspine]

TTBOMK, most of the skipped planets are just unnecessary risks, but visiting Dar-Vil, the second Ganzig ship or the starport means not getting to visit a planet where essential information is to be found.

[weaselfierce]

Interesting. As a kid, I never could finish this one but I also couldn't resist landing on everything

[Akharis]

There's a map for Starship traveller at the twitter account:

@bvkjxqz

Check it out! :-)

[vagsancho]

Jan 15, 2020 12:53:09 GMT Akharis said:

There's a map for Starship traveller at the twitter account:

@bvkjxqz

Check it out! :-)

Curse of the Mummy... WOW...

[Charles X.]

Starship Traveller had the potential to be one of the best books in the series. I didn't like the way they did it; I felt it was like a tribute, short and unambitious, without even the need for any random rolls in the true path.
   I don't doubt there might be worthy fan fiction\amateur out there which has taken the concept further, there deserves to be. There hasn't been a new sci-fi in the new FF books (don't think BOTZ counts, being set in the present, not the future).

[misomiso]

Oct 12, 2013 13:22:38 GMT vastariner said:

One of the best visualizations of the solution to any FF book is this one:



And it's one of the first I saw...

Can anybody see this map? 

When you google Starship traveller map it comes up as a link to this forum, but the image is very small and you can't really make out anything. 

If anybody can let me know how to access it that would be helpful! 

Ty

[scouserob]

Is it this one?
Quality in any case.

yosemite-sam.net/Solutions/Starchart.gif

[vastariner]

That's the one - here it is slightly tweaked and enlarged...

[misomiso]

Perfect ty