Angus McStubbin, Stubby, is an ex-belter and prospector.


Angus McStubbin
A67B68 5 term Belter 38 years old.
Vacc suit - 2, Prospecting - 2, Computer - 1, Pilot - 1, Engnrng - 1     Seeker           Cr12,000


War has broken out in the Spinward Marches between the Outworld Coalition (Zhodanis, Vargr and Sword Worlders) and the Imperoium. Angus is prospecting two sectors over, in the Linelit system in the Inverness subsector of Far Frontiers sector. Linelit/Inverness is a non-aligned human-dominated asteroid belt located between the Zhodani client state of the Protectorate to coreward and the Zhodani-allied Mnemosyne Principality to rimward.

http://wiki.travellerrpg.com/Inverness_Subsector

Due to the uncertainty of the sudden war, Angus and his partner are preparing to Jump outsystem, most likely towards an Imperial ally or client state like The Leage of Suns or the Trelyn Domain. The border of the Zhodani Consulate is located in the next subsector over and there were rumours that Zhodani naval units would be forward deployed to their various client states to either conduct flanking maneuvers into the Outrim Void or prevent the Imperials from doing the same. Before you had a chance to overhaul the Jump drives a Zhodani destroyer squadron Jumped in-system, demanding all Imperial-registered craft hove to for boarding and inspection. You decided to gamble and initiated Jump almost immediately, aiming for Rjnevelle/Inverness. Instead, you misjumped due to a critical drive failure.

You came out of Jump with your Jump drive redlined. Much worse, you were in deep space, the nightmare of every spacer, parsecs from any world. Repairing the drive was a slim hope at best but your best one as you still have fuel for a Jump-1. The only other option was to send a radio signal to the nearest worlds with a high enough Tech Level to receive it and organise a rescue: Mwari/Inverness or Saulente/Inverness. In the mean time as you worked on repairing the drive you sent a distress call, knowing it would take 9 years for a signal to arrive (and that any rescue ship would arrive much faster than the 9-year turnaround time). But you have the low berths so survival was very possible. After transmitting, somehow you picked up a signal right away! It was faint and indecipherable, but there. You traced it to a massive object that was relatively close by (within several thousand AUs) and travelling at .1 lightspeed in a roughly coreward direction. It would take you 3 months to catch up to it at 2G added to your accidental velocity left over after the misjump. When you catch up you'll be awakened automatically to RV with the unknown vessel.

You climb into your low berths, and that's the last thing you remember...