Traveller Week 2026 included a revival of the December 2023 Traveller Mercenaries Bundle featuring soldier-for-hire supplements and adventures for Traveller Second Edition from Mongoose Publishing.
Mercenary has been part of the Traveller line since the 1978 Little Black Book 4. Mongoose published Mercenary 1E (2008) as the first supplement for its Traveller 1E. This revived Traveller Mercenaries offer presents the newest and largest version, the three-book Mercenary Second Edition boxed set (2021).
Funded in a February 2021 Kickstarter campaign (1,026 backers, £100K) and designed by longtime Traveller writer Martin J Dougherty, Mercenary 2E presents expanded systems for recruiting merc units of any size from squad to battalion; new mass-combat rules; defined equipment levels from Basic to Standard, Generous, Lavish, and Excessive; and a new ticketing system that lets you line up Commando, Striker, Warfighting, Cadre, Support, and Specialist contracts. A full support line adds tickets, equipment, adventures, and an entire theater of operations, the Solomani Front.
Note: These supplements and adventures require the Mongoose Traveller 2E rulebook, which wasn’t included in this offer. If you’re new to the game, you want the core rules we included in our revived December 2024 Mongoose Traveller Update Bundle.
There were three supplements in this revived offer’s Player Collection (retail value $97) as DRM-free .PDF ebooks, including Mercenary, Mercenaries of Charted Space, and Field Catalogue.
Those who paid more than the threshold (average) price also got this revival’s entire Referee Collection with five more titles worth an additional $101, including Specialist Forces, Solomani Front, and three Mercenary Adventures: 1: Verloren Hoop, 2: Bug Hunt, and 3: Must Travel, Need Guns.
Traveller Week 2026!
The Traveller Week 2026 offers all featured Mongoose Traveller Second Edition, available in the December 2024 Mongoose Traveller Update Bundle (if you’re new to the game, start here). The other offers this week included the all-new Traveller Imperial Navy and three more revivals: Mercenaries (Dec 2023), Great Rift (Nov 2022), and Mongoose JTAS (May 2024).
