At least under MGT2 aging rules, it is. If you're an ordinary, adventure-avoiding, NPC who goes out of their way to do nothing exotic (might eat some cream cheese the day after the best-before date once a year or so), you can expect to go ass-up from natural causes shortly after your 58th birthday (give or take about two months). Quoth The Eddles: "58 years. With all the wonders of super science medical progress, we chop 25-30 years of the average lifespan..." His complaint is quite justified, in light of MGT2's apparent implicit assumption it's Golden Age or GTFO - TTL12 medical care widely available, fair amount of Vilani ancestry running around, unlimited rice pudding for all, etc. To fill in background of Eddles' quote, AU life expectancy at birth (TTL 8 medical care, undiluted Terrans) was just shy of 83 years in 2018. 16.25 terms, in Trav terms. If you're hoping I have a way to reconcile such wide disagreement between the MGT2 aging rules and actual experience, join the club. Jeff Zeitlin (at least) should not be surprised to hear I took a Monte Carlo approach to figuring that out - writing some (in this case, Python) code to simulate the number of terms lived for each of 10,000 such Traveller NPCs and averaging the results. This also gives me a way to explore ideas to try to reconcile such disagreement - without much luck so far. Giving boons on all aging rolls (+1.5 to expected result) gave no major surprise on the results - roughly another 1.5 terms (64.1 years , give or take six weeks). Applying the mods Daryen characters receive on aging rolls (p6, MGT1 AM3: Darrians) - applying half the terms to date, rounded down, as the penalty to the aging roll, gets Traveller NPCs to 87.1 years, give or take 3 months (roughly another 8 terms over the base 10-term case - approximately doubling). For comparison, JP female life expectancy at birth was 87.3 years in 2018. Mashing both together resulted in no major surprise - 99.6 years, again give or take three months. Three extra terms was about what I expected (1.5 extra terms out of the gate, then doubled). Some Wombat: "Per GT:ISW p 74, a good Vilani workingman starts to retire at age 110 (and takes 9 years to fully bugger off), so that's problematic." Quoth The Eddles: "Especially as on average the fellow will be about 30 years dead before that. hell of a retirement plan." ISW-era Vilani are getting approx TTL7/8 medical care. I grok the ISW figures are coming in from GT, but should not a human population that is known for its longevity, oh, I don't know, have significantly higher life expectancy than the baseline? In the immortal words of that great biomedical gerontologist, Dr Animal, FACS, FRCSC, "WHAT DO?" I suspect the good doctor's initial response ("EAT DRUMS!") will not apply here. Alex --