Imperium Games was an American game company that produced role-playing games and game supplements.
History
Marc W. Miller partnered with Sweetpea Entertainment to license his science-fiction property Traveller in exchange for funding to get Imperium Games running in February 1996, as a new publisher solely dedicated to Traveller material; Sweetpea advanced Imperium Games seed money to launch in exchange for equity and media rights.
Former GDW employees Lester W. Smith and Timothy Brown came to work for Imperium Games. Don Perrin also designed role playing products for Imperium Games's Traveller RPG Universe. Larry Elmore did most of the black-and-white artwork for Marc Miller's Traveller (1996). Chris Foss created much of the color concept art for this edition of the Traveller franchise, and produced 12 pages of artwork for the new Traveller edition's first supplement, Starships (1996). Foss also illustrated a number of covers for Imperium's Traveller.
When Sweetpea Entertainment bought out the stock of the many creators who had worked on T4 and took over some of the day-to-day operations of the company, Timothy Brown took the helm of Imperium Games under Sweetpea's guidance, and was now the only official staff for Imperium, with others acting as freelancers.