Traveller != Imperium

I decided not to long ago to start a MegaTraveller game here in Berkeley.
It's been about 2 years since I last ran MT, but I was still feeling a little
burned out on the Imperium.  I'd seen so much of it over the last X years
that it seemed NORMAL.  Trying to recapture to exotic flavor of Traveller
for myself, I decided to go ahead and run my new campaign SOMEWHERE ELSE.
(Somewhere still being developed).  What I'm kind of interested in knowing
is if any one else out there has run Non-Imperium Traveller campaigns
and what interesting things they've done in them.

Thx,
    Shannon Appel