Sorry, gang, but times and tastes change, and this area is one of them.
When Traveller was getting started, Marc Miller and the GDW gang were
desperate for third-party support; such support implies the "legitimacy"
and acceptance of a game as an industry standard. In the late 1970s, this
was not yet the case for Traveller, and the thought of someone actually
caring enough to write supplements for the game was enough to encourage
instant favorable response from GDW. Since then, as Traveller has become
established and its quality has gone up (with the exception of the stuff
GDW is doing, interestingly...I wonder if DGP can take the right to do
Traveller away from the people who created it? |-> ), the older, less
coherent and integrated materials have been officially removed from the
list of "legit" Traveller history. The word SORAG and its definition,
and the names of the two sectors they designed, are the ONLY items that
were retained by GDW, and only because the GDW Universe map had them
printed on it in the latter case. Judges' Guild released a slew of Traveller
materials, all promiently marked "Officially approved" and all non-legit.
They designed star maps for four sectors, two of which were out when the
Universe map was published; those two names were also saved, but the latter
two were not.
On a personal note, I find it a very good thing that the Paranoia Press
stuff was yanked...the overall level of technological advancement in the
area, as PP represented it, was more than enough to make mincemeat out
of the Imperium AND the Zhodani. There were two ringworlds and a Dyson
sphere, as I recall, a bunch of really pointless aliens, and such tech
goodies as portable tesseracts (or was that an article in one of the
magazines?) and intelligent, sentient computers. Pfui!
metlay