A while ago I ran a game where the characters were all Scout S3 operators in the Trojan Reach, deployed out of Cyan as part of a joint task force with the IMOJ blah blah blah.
I could imagine one of the NPCs being a veteran who’d moved over to S3 after an unglamorous and perhaps peculiar time in the Comm branch running XBoats. Over the course of time and through all types of training and ports of call, he hung onto that hat he’d been given after his first year in Boats as a rite of passage.
With each year and each incarnation of his time with the Scouts he’d have to pare down gear, make some tough choices about what he held onto and stuffed in the ruck. The Comm hat always made the cut.
I did not do the embroidery on this; I took my idea and materials to someone who was much more skilled and better equipped for such a thing and I came away with this nerdy bit of art.
I’m not much of a hat guy, but I figure if most of my physical collection of Traveller books can spend serious time on the shelf and still bring me joy, so can this old Scout hat.
