So, about background "improvement".
I have to admit that I have run only one TNE scenario and that's my experience
with Traveller so my opinions can't be based on first hand information.
Based on that little information I have about CT has convinced me that it
is/was the best Traveller setting. In CT the Imperium is stable maybe slowly
expanding and there is lot of Hi-Tech in contrast to TNE where is lot to
expand and little Hi-Tech readily available.
IMHO the rebellion was GDW's worst mistake because it lead to the collapse as
an only "rational" way out. I believe that after the rebellion the Imperium
would have stayed dead and in place where Imperium were, there would have
been only a few independent states and no-man's land.
I have to admit that I run a Star Viking campaign but I *hope* that this is
only a bridge to something greater. I keep thinking that because I doubt that
my players or me can find long-term fun from exploring and recontaction
worlds. Maybe GDW publishes material conserning RC's "developed" planets.
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