Episode 10: Celebrity & Fame in the Core – Stardom at the Speed of Jump

In the Mongoose Traveller 2nd Edition roleplaying game, news crawls across the stars at the speed of jump, and fame travels the same way. 

In this episode of Signals from the Core, we look at how celebrity works in the Third Imperium, with a special focus on what happens when all of it gets amplified in the Core Sector. 

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Also in this episode: we look at what published Mongoose Publishing source materials give us on celebrity and fame in the Third Imperium Sourcebook, the Singularity campaign materials, the new Infinity Suite campaign, and Mongoose Traveller 1E's Book 8: Dilettante to trace how a reputation gets made, sponsored, and sustained.

We talk the business of spectacle, the Ministry of Information, and sort celebrity into four working types Referees can put straight to use. 

Plus, we profile a new NPC patron, Ansel Drevane, celebrity chef, cultural envoy, and unwitting Imperial mouthpiece, along with an adventure hook that drops your Travellers between his appetite for danger and an Amber Zone world that bites back!