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Alex Treacher @alextreacher.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The short version: I have made a Ko-fi page where you can buy some Space Weasel bits, or donate to future projects. www.ko-fi.com/spaceweaselp... See the following comments for the long version... #Traveller #TravellerRPG #ttrpg

Space Weasel, with three fabric SWP patches and a fridge magnet.

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Alex Treacher @alextreacher.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Look what Mister Postman delivered from @mongoosepublishing.bsky.social this morning. I've only just been able to get round to opening it - while I'm working from home, I was very busy and resisted the lure! Space Weasel for scale. #Traveller #TravellerRPG #ttrpg

Newly delivered Traveller Singularity Kickstarter set.
And Space Weasel.

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Alex Treacher @alextreacher.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

@kezzieface.bsky.social had the idea to make some Traveller Bingo Cards, for fun, and had a load printed and dished them out at the TravConUK (for free, or for donations which have gone to charity). They're definitely not very serious (Continued in comments) www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

Front page of Card 01 of Space Weasel Productions Traveller Bingo card.

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Alex Treacher @alextreacher.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

We're back from #TravConUK 2026. Had a very fun weekend - there were about 53 games of #Traveller in the schedule from Friday evening through to Sunday late afternoon. I took part in three as a player, and refereed two games (same one, run twice). #TravellerRPG #ttrpg (continued in comments)

Space Weasel reclining in a deckchair, relaxing in the middle of a TravCon game.

Traveller game in progress, showing map of bank and markers for characters and NPCs.

Me refereeing one of my game sessions at TravConUK. A rare thing, indeed, in that it's a photo of myself that I don't dislike.

TravCon attendees in the main lecture room of Cranfield Management Centre, during the light-hearted closing awards.

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Alex Treacher @alextreacher.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

First day at #TravConUK. Ran the first game, which went well and in a totally unexpected direction. Space Weasel supervising (next to the blue folder). Lots of fun, and thanks to the four players who signed up for it. Hope they enjoyed as much as I did. #Traveller #TravellerRPG #ttrpg

TravConUk. Me, although Space Weasel is visible in the photo, next to the blue folder. Kez caught me smiling, amazingly!
Running the first game. Great setup with screens to display maps etc. from my laptop.

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Alex Treacher @alextreacher.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Space Weasel is excited! Tomorrow is the start of #TravConUK in Milton Keynes. Two and a half days of non-stop #Traveller gaming, and a chance to meet Traveller friends in real life again. Will be running two games there, and looking forward to both playing and refereeing. #TravellerRPG #ttrpg

Space Weasel, wearing a spacesuit helmet, sitting in front of books and patches.

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Alex Treacher @alextreacher.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Space Weasel has been "negotiating" with the Hivers, this sunny Bank Holiday. Well, that's his story, anyway. While he was busy doing that I was working on the next Space Weasel books (NPCs, another ship, and some news/adventure hook ideas). #Traveller #TravellerRPG #TravConUK #ttrpg (cont'd)

Space Weasel, reclining in a deckchair in the garden, enjoying a Hiver beer.

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Alex Treacher @alextreacher.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Space Weasel says that he's helping with writing the next Traveller book I'm working on. Personally I suspect he might be enjoying the sunshine while I get on with it, and then taking the credit for it afterwards! Working on NPCs, TNS entries, and an adventure. #ttrpg #Traveller #TravellerRPG

Space Weasel is helping to write the next Space Weasel book. Lying in a deckchair, it looks more like he's enjoying the sun and letting me get on with it.

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Alex Treacher @alextreacher.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

It's that time of the year again. Mayday. Happy Traveller Day from Space Weasel. May all your rolls be double sixes. Or if they're double ones, at least go out laughing! Remember the Beowulf! #Traveller #TravellerRPG #ttrpg

Player landing page for The Troubled Dark campaign, displaying ship status.

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Alex Treacher @alextreacher.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

When you're on holiday and find that the compasses you've had since your school years have fallen apart, you just have to draw circles with whatever you can find that's close enough to the right size. Space Weasel has his ship designer's hat on. #ttrpg #Traveller #TravellerRPG

Space Weasel sitting on a laptop 'helping' to draw a ship design.

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Alex Treacher @alextreacher.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Space Weasel is doing what he calls 'research' for an upcoming spaceship project. Very new and under wraps until it's developed more, but there's a loose hint in the photo. Can you guess? It's not just a weasel out on a jolly, he assures us. #ttrpg #Traveller #TravellerRPG

Space Weasel appears to be on a nautical secret mission.

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Alex Treacher @alextreacher.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Well, a nice thing to find after wrapping up a busy day at work. The Space Weasel Q-Ships book has snuck up into the Copper seller category on @drivethrurpg.com Book of 4 dangerous converted merchant vessels, stats, background and art by @biomassart.bsky.social Link below #ttrpg #Traveller

Front cover of Space Weasel - Ships of Charted Space Volume 1, Q-Ships

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Alex Treacher @alextreacher.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Look what arrived today. The new expansion - Replicant Rebellion - for Free League's Blade Runner RPG. Lovely production value, and lots of fun stuff in the asset pack. I'll read through properly later - first impressions are very good. @bladerunner-rpg.bsky.social #ttrpg

Space Weasel investigating the newly arrived Blade Runner - Replicant Rebellion expansion.

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Alex Treacher @alextreacher.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Space Weasel wants to congratulate everyone involved in the Artemis II mission. Delighted and relieved to see everything go so well, and it's great to see us going to the moon again. We stayed up late to watch the launch and splashdown live. #ArtemisII #NASA @esa.int @ukspaceagency.bsky.social

Photo showing splashdown of Artemis II crew capsule, Integrity. Photo source NASA.

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Alex Treacher @alextreacher.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Well, that's a pleasant thing to find when I've just looked this lunchtime. The new Space Weasel book, Q-Ships, is showing up on @drivethrurpg.com in the "Most popular under $5" section less than 24 hours after I published it. See comments for direct link. #Traveller #TravellerRPG #ttrpg

DriveThruRPG page showing Q-Ships on the "Most popular under $5" section.

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Alex Treacher @alextreacher.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

The new Space Weasel book is now finished and available on @drivethrurpg.com. Four sneaky and dangerous Q-ships, with artwork by the outstanding Ian Stead @biomassart.bsky.social Ships of Charted Space, Volume 1: Q-Ships www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5... #Traveller #TravellerRPG #ttrpg

Cover of Space Weasel Productions book – Ships of Charted Space, Volume 1: Q-Ships

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Alex Treacher @alextreacher.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Have a happy Easter, and keep those helmets on!

Alien egg chamber scene from Alien movie.

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Alex Treacher @alextreacher.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Want a bit of cyberpunk at Easter? This is the book for you. Bad Sector, by Cy Dethan. It's cyberpunk with a difference - and I don't want to spoil the fun by explaining too much about that difference. I'm halfway through writing a review of it, and trying to say enough - but not too much!

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Alex Treacher @alextreacher.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Hope everyone has a great Easter break.

Image of a Broadsword-class mercentary cruiser, painted up to look like an easter egg. Original artist unknown, unfortunately.

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biomassart.bsky.social @biomassart.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

New patreon post featuring the Amundsen Class Explorer Scout www.patreon.com/posts/amunds...

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Alex Treacher @alextreacher.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

It's been an exciting week Traveller-wise. I've been working on a project for March Harrier Publishing, which is currently under wraps. More to follow on that when the time is right... ...continued in comments below. #Traveller #TravellerRPG #ttrpg

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Alex Treacher @alextreacher.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

The next Space Weasel book, Q-ships, is well on the way. I've been spending a lot of time over the past few days working on the layout, and getting into obsessive detail about tiny little things which likely would have escaped noticed anyway! #Traveller #TravellerRPG #ttrpg

Space Weasel, reclining in a deck chair, surrounded by computer monitors showing the work on book layout in progress.

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Alex Treacher @alextreacher.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

We did a thing today. We got married, and it was a wonderful day, and even managed to dodge most of the rain. We've been together for long enough now that we should have done it ages ago, and are very pleased to say we've finally made it official. Space Weasel was there too, of course!

Alex and Kez, and Weasel. Two of them are now married (it's not Weasel!).

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Alex Treacher @alextreacher.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Something is afoot. Space Weasel is excited and all dressed up. But why...?

Space Weasel looking dapper with a top hat and bow tie, holding a red rose.

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Alex Treacher @alextreacher.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

We had a very busy and very fun weekend last weekend. We went to GridCon (@gamingrules.bsky.social), which is a very good boardgaming convention, which has the benefit of being relatively close.

Space Weasel enjoying a game of SETI: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, at home. The very neat illuminated Sol courtesy of Pum and his 3D-printer.

Space Weasel enjoying a game of Galileo Galilee, at GridCon.

Space Weasel enjoying a game of Underwater Cities, at GridCon.

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Alex Treacher @alextreacher.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Want eight new critters for your #Traveller #ttrpg game? Want Vang's slightly eccentric anecdotes about his encounters with them? @drivethrurpg.com has included Vang's Traveller Bestiary Volume 1 in their Black Friday sale, so you can now get it at a discount. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

Front cover of Vang's Traveller Bestiary Volume 1

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Alex Treacher @alextreacher.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Do you like your #Traveller adventures set in a cynical world of cloaks and daggers, half-truths, half-lies and subterfuge? If you are, then "The Extraction" may be for you. Polishing the text off now, taking on board feedback from the playtest at #TravCon. Polishing text now, art later. #ttrpg

Noir image of silhouetted woman
Credit: istockphoto

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Alex Treacher @alextreacher.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

My "get up and go" hasn't been great lately. I blame the lurgi I caught which really knocked me sideways. In trying to get back into writing shape, I reorganised some bits and made a "projects list" for the things I've got in various states for Space Weasel. Fourteen projects currently on the go!

Space Weasel sitting at a laptop, wondering how on earth he's going to get everything done!

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Alex Treacher @alextreacher.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

We're back from #TravConUK, where we had a lot of fun, stayed up way too late, and played lots of #Traveller. Four games in about 30 hours, when I work it out. Enjoyed all the sessions I played in, and the playtest of our new scenario seemed to go down well. Working on the feedback today. #ttrpg

Space Weasel rolls an eight in Pioneer. Which I trust is enough...

Space Weasel amidst the convention playtest of the new scenario.

In full flow. I can't remember what I was saying at this point. I don't even remember the photo being taken!

The convention playtest of the forthcoming Pioneer RPG by Mongoose. Liv doing a great job as Referee, and we enjoyed a very fun session.

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Alex Treacher @alextreacher.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Second game in on #TravConUK. Space Weasel taking part in the play test of Pioneer RPG from @mongoosepublishing.bsky.social Near future hard sci-fi is very much in my wheelhouse, so absolutely I was drawn to it. Great fun, and looking forward to rescuing those in need. #ttrpg #traveller

Space Weasel helping to play test Pioneer RPG

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Alex Treacher @alextreacher.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Prepare jumpdrive for launch, Captain! We've loaded up the cargo hold with everything we need for #TravConUK and have launched for the jump to Cambridgeshire. Looking forward to seeing everyone else there again. And mildly nervous about running a game at a con for the first time. #Traveller #ttrpg

Space Weasel checking that the cargo hold is loaded before we launch.

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Alex Treacher @alextreacher.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Overthinking? Me? Never! Of course I need about forty pages of documentation for a three(ish) hour one-shot at #TravConUK! In my (slight) defence I've been writing it so that stuff for the full, publication version, is going in there too, not just the convention game. #Traveller #ttrpg

Space Weasel sitting with the draft adventure for TravConUK, and some dice.

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Alex Treacher @alextreacher.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Last couple of weeks have been quiet as I've been under the weather. Got a bug which has really slowed me down, and the doc has signed me off work. Of course I'm stressing about getting the adventure for #travconuk finished. But hopefully, it'll be all right on the night! #traveller #ttrpg

Space Weasel sitting on the adventure folder for TravConUK

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Alex Treacher @alextreacher.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Space Weasel has just returned from what he calls "research" into the next #Traveller bestiary. He even put the air-quotes around the word, so I don't believe him. He just wanted to go and see bats. Filmed at #ChesterZoo, whose exhibit of, and work with, Seba's and Roderigues bats is excellent.

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Alex Treacher @alextreacher.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Who is Space Weasel? I’ve been a fan of Traveller since the 1980s and a science fiction fan prior to then. My very first adventures, back in those days, were within a home-brewed universe as I’d never then heard of Charted Space or the Third Imperium. The aim of Space Weasel Productions [cont'd]

Knitted ferret - Space Weasel, close up, with book in background.

I am Space Weasel!

Knitted ferret - Space Weasel, posing in front of publications.

Space Weasel hard at work. Or so he says.

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Alex Treacher @alextreacher.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

I'm pleased to say that I've completed the new Space Weasel book and published it on @drivethrurpg.com Vang’s Traveller Bestiary, Volume 1 www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5... #Traveller #ttrpg

Cover of Space Weasel Productions book - Vang's Traveller Bestiary, Volume 1

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Alex Treacher @alextreacher.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Back in the day I made GM screens with cardboard, tape and photocopied charts. Then for online games, they weren't needed. But I'm running my first face-to-face game in many years at #TravConUK in October, so I bought a #Traveller screen as part of the (huge) preparation I'm doing for it. #ttrpg

Space Weasel with Traveller referee's screen and game materials.

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Alex Treacher @alextreacher.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Just received a delivery from @mongoosepublishing.bsky.social with the new editions of JTAS. Including an article of mine; an aid organisation from my ongoing campaign which could give your #Traveller some interesting employment opportunities. #ttrpg

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Alex Treacher @alextreacher.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Space Weasel has had a busy week, preparing for his next mission. He visited some great jet planes, and even took part in a photoshoot for the new books. We've got three new #Traveller publications on the way - a book of spacehips, a book of beasties, and a new adventure. Watch this space! #ttrpg

Space Weasel looking out of the cockpit of a Canberra bomber.

Space Weasel posing in front of a Phantom II.

Space Weasel investigating the pointy end of a Lightning.

Space Weasel in the cockpit of a Vulcan, wondering how he's going to reach the rudder pedals.

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Alex Treacher @alextreacher.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Getting rather excited now. I've got about four publications in the works, at various states of completion. If I had more spare time, I'd be closer to getting them completed. Suddenly tonight, the new bestiary book looks like it's nearly finished. Available on @drivethrurpg.com when it's done.

Screenshot of layout of cover page, work-in-progress.

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Alex Treacher @alextreacher.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Mayday... That means Traveller Day, where we remember the Beowulf. And I'm on vacation, away from my real job and getting on with writing up a couple of the next Space Weasel Productions publications. Assisted of course, by Space Weasel himself. I'll have them on @drivethrurpg.com in due course.

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Alex Treacher @alextreacher.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Yesterday was apparently National Board Game Day (International, perhaps?), although I only realised today. Fortunately today was also TringCon, where we met up with friends and played games of Agricola, Ra, Suburbia and Airlines Europe. Had a very fun time, and already planning for the next!

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Alex Treacher @alextreacher.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I rather wanted to like @microsoft.com OneNote. It looked to be a good option for jotting down notes and ideas that would work across the different platforms I use. Sadly not, and I frequently found entries would often only have the start and lose the ends. It's gone. It had to do one thing...!

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Alex Treacher @alextreacher.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Today is Science Fiction Day. I've been into SF since my very early years, and it has given me a lot of fun reading and watching. Who will join me in a toast to Herbert, Jules, Margaret, Isaac, Ray, Harry, Robert, Philip, Larry, Jerry, Mary, Arthur, and more? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationa...

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National Science Fiction Day - Wikipedia

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Alex Treacher @alextreacher.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Pleasant surprise today. Catching up on e-mails and so on, after work today, I noticed that 'Drama at the Starport' has a 'Silver Best Seller' award on it. Granted it's just the second level up, but I'm chuffed as it's my first publication on @drivethrurpg.com www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

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Alex Treacher @alextreacher.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

A friend of mine, and one of the players in my campaign, has just published one of his adventures on @drivethrurpg.com I had the privilege of playing in it recently at TravConUK and thoroughly enjoyed it. It is available here: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

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