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Through Monday, January 5, 2026 we present two offers featuring Mongoose Traveller Second Edition: the revived November 2022 Mongoose Traveller Explorations Bundle and its all-new companion, the Traveller Ancients Campaign.

1. TRAVELLER EXPLORATIONS [from Nov 2022]

This November 2022 Mongoose Traveller Explorations Bundle once again gives you the core rulebook and many sourcebooks about Charted Space. If you’re new to the game, start here. Pay just US$12.95 to get all four titles in this revived offer’s Starter Collection (retail value $97) as DRM-free .PDF ebooks, including the complete Traveller Core Rulebook Update 2022 along with the sector sourcebooks Behind the Claw and Sword Worlds.

And if you pay more than this revival’s threshold (average) price, which is set at $27.95 to start, you’ll level up and also get this offer’s entire Bonus Collection with six more titles worth an additional $126, including Aliens of Charted Space V1 and V2, the Sword Worlds campaign Skandersvik, the Spinward Marches sourcebooks The Bowman Arm and The Lunion Shield Worlds, and Deneb Adventure 1: The Lost Duke.

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/2025Explorations

2. TRAVELLER ANCIENTS CAMPAIGN [all-new]

Written by Gareth Hanrahan (Pirates of Drinax, Dracula Dossier, Darkening of Mirkwood) and current Traveller line editor Martin J Dougherty, these three long scenarios send the Travellers across the Spinward Marches sector to discover millennia-old secrets of the inscrutable Ancients. The characters see sights no human has ever dreamed of, meddle with powers beyond understanding, clash with secret factions within the Imperium, gain superhuman abilities, and ultimately help shape the destiny of all Charted Space.

The story of the Ancients starts 350,000 years before the Third Imperium. The Droyne, first of the six Major Races to develop the jump drive, spread throughout Charted Space and beyond. In an effort to create suitable workers, they took humans and wolves from Earth and seeded them, sometimes with genetic modification, on many worlds. Some 60 millennia ago, a 2,000-year Final War destroyed the Ancient civilization and its technology, leaving the surviving Droyne as simple, seemingly harmless workers who are nevertheless pervasive across Charted Space. The cause of the war, the disappearance of the Ancients, and the nature of the Droyne remain mysterious. With more than 800 pages of far-future and dimension-spanning adventure, the Secrets of the Ancients trilogy reveals much of the Droyne past, and may rescue the Third Imperium’s future.

Like the Ancients, this Mongoose trilogy has a long history:

In 1984 GDW published Classic Traveller Adventure 12, Secrets of the Ancients as a kind of capstone to the CT adventure line. Written by the entire GDW Traveller team, and larger than any previous adventure to that time (64 pages!), A12 drew on plot threads from A02, Research Station Gamma, and A03, Twilight’s Peak. We presented A12 in the January 2016 Traveller Little Black Books Bundle 2.

To promote its own Traveller First Edition in 2010, Mongoose released, in ten free weekly installments, a Secrets of the Ancients campaign by MgT 1E designer Gareth Hanrahan. Later collected (we presented the one-volume version in our April 2016 Mongoose Traveller 1E offer), the 2010 Secrets expanded and furthered the premise of the GDW original, introducing to the modern Third Imperium some significant consequences and conflicts – and adversaries – from the Ancients’ Final War.

After Traveller Second Edition appeared in 2016, Mongoose updated and expanded the 1E Secrets campaign, publishing a full-color 256-page hardcover in 2021. Martin Dougherty wrote separate lead-in and trailing campaigns, published as Mysteries and Wrath of the Ancients in 2023. Together the three books can keep any gaming group busy for years. All three of these 2E campaigns debut in the Bundle of Holding in this all-new Traveller Ancients Campaign.

Pay just $17.95 to get all three campaign-length adventures in this offer’s Ancients Collection (retail value $71), including Mysteries of the Ancients, Secrets of the Ancients, and Wrath of the Ancients.

Note: These three adventures require the rulebook in this new offer’s revived companion bundle from November 2022, Traveller Explorations. Behind the Claw, the Spinward Marches sourcebook in the same offer, is also helpful.

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/TravAncients

These two Mongoose Traveller offers vanish together in the Fuller Experimental Mining Installation on Calefaction moments before the planet cracks apart and falls into its sun Monday, January 5, 2026.

1. MONGOOSE TRAVELLER EXPLORATIONS [from Nov 2022]

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/2025Explorations

2. TRAVELLER ANCIENTS CAMPAIGN [all-new]

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/TravAncients

https://beyondthebundle.com/2025-12-15/traveller-explorations-ancients/

https://beyondthebundle.com/?p=13538