Editing Triplanetary (board game) (section)

==Contents==
[[Image:Triplanetary rulesbook.jpg|thumb|First edition rulebook cover]]
The game was originally packaged in a square cardboard tube, which contained a 16-page book of rules (with four pages of errata and clarifications that included two additional scenarios); a [[hex map]] of the inner Solar System; a clear [[acetate]] overlay for the map, a grease pencil, a set of cardboard [[Counter (board wargames)|counter]]s representing the various [[spacecraft|spaceship]]s, and a 6-sided die.<ref name=waynesbooks>{{citation | contribution=Triplanetary: Space Combat in the Solar System, 2001 | title=RPG Reference: Traveller Universe Boardgames (and related releases) | publisher=Wayne's Books | url=http://www.waynesbooks.com/Travellerboardgames.html | access-date=November 14, 2011 }}</ref> The map included the [[Sun]], [[Mercury (planet)|Mercury]], [[Venus]], Earth and the Moon, [[Mars]], two of the largest asteroids in the [[Asteroid belt]] as well as a hex for a secret [[asteroid]] base, and [[Jupiter]], along with the four largest Jovian moons. For game play purposes, the placement of the Earth's Moon and the Jovian moons were not to scale.