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For the past few months, I have been going through my old Traveller RPG books, looking at the ink artwork of William H. Keith Jr. His brother J. Andrew Keith was usually the main writer of the books-including this particular storyline. And I have finally scratch that itch with several drawings including two large drawings based from two FASA Corporation Traveller adventure supplements.

First drawing is taken from the first book of a two to three book series (A7 - The Trail of the Sky Raiders). A9 - Fate of the Sky Raiders completes the adventure arc. I use to have "Legend of the Sky Raiders" but it is missing from my book shelf. In the second book "Trail of the Sky Raiders," there in the back on page 43; the "adventurers" have finally arrived at the Vault of the Great Journey. In the center of the great round room is a waiting, ancient looking, non-jumpdrive equiped spacecraft that appears to be of about 500-ton displacement.

On the cover of that book is the female archaeologist Lorain Messandi. She is pointing out a alien bug that needs to be killed and the trooper behind her represents the role-playing group that I belong to long, long, time ago. That is how we would normally appear - combat armor and weapons to kick ass.

The drawing that William H. Keith Jr is different from the one that I created. One, I wanted to show the disrepair of the vault and show the hole in the ceiling for the limited light that is coming down into the vault. Two, the spacecraft is basically like the one he drew, but I put in a few more details on my ship.

FASA Corporation was a publisher of role-playing games, wargames, and board games from 1980 thru 2001. FASA was an acronym for "Freedonian Aeronautics and Space Administration." This is an allusion to the Marx Brothers film "Duck Soup." FASA got its start as a Traveller licensee, producing supplements for the GDW role-playing game; especially the work of the Keith Brothers. (info taken from the Wikipedia website).

Description
For the past few months, I have been going through my old Traveller RPG books, looking at the ink artwork of William H. Keith Jr. His brother J. Andrew Keith was usually the main writer of the books-including this particular storyline. And I have finally scratch that itch with several drawings including two large drawings based from two FASA Corporation Traveller adventure supplements.

First drawing is taken from the first book of a two to three book series (A7 - The Trail of the Sky Raiders). A9 - Fate of the Sky Raiders completes the adventure arc. I use to have "Legend of the Sky Raiders" but it is missing from my book shelf. In the second book "Trail of the Sky Raiders," there in the back on page 43; the "adventurers" have finally arrived at the Vault of the Great Journey. In the center of the great round room is a waiting, ancient looking, non-jumpdrive equiped spacecraft that appears to be of about 500-ton displacement.

On the cover of that book is the female archaeologist Lorain Messandi. She is pointing out a alien bug that needs to be killed and the trooper behind her represents the role-playing group that I belong to long, long, time ago. That is how we would normally appear - combat armor and weapons to kick ass.

The drawing that William H. Keith Jr is different from the one that I created. One, I wanted to show the disrepair of the vault and show the hole in the ceiling for the limited light that is coming down into the vault. Two, the spacecraft is basically like the one he drew, but I put in a few more details on my ship.

FASA Corporation was a publisher of role-playing games, wargames, and board games from 1980 thru 2001. FASA was an acronym for "Freedonian Aeronautics and Space Administration." This is an allusion to the Marx Brothers film "Duck Soup." FASA got its start as a Traveller licensee, producing supplements for the GDW role-playing game; especially the work of the Keith Brothers. (info taken from the Wikipedia website).