IMTU: Aging in Traveller
Traveller is copyright 1977-2025 by Mongoose Publising. This is a fan work, and used without permission under fair use. In My Traveller Universe is a series of ideas I have had over the last twenty years for "updating" the Traveller RPG. In 1700AD average human lifespan was about 33 years. Human lifespan has, on average, increased to 80 years. So that means in the last 325 years human lifespan has increased by 57 years. Simple math shows that as 0.17 years for every year but this is deceiving. More than half that increase has taken place since 1900. Which means on the last 125 years the increase has averaged of almost double that rate or 0.33 years per year. Even at a much slower rate, with increases in medical technology, average human lifespan could easily be twice that number even if progression shrunk to almost nothing. As I write this the oldest documented living person is 116 years of age, or almost half again as old as the average. So in my Traveller unive...