I WANT it to be consistent with the old stuff (in as much as that’s possible given the existing canon contradictions. I believe it can be BOTH, these two ideals are NOT mutually exclusive.
It can be both, I just do not want to see people with Whipsnade's attitudes attempting to bully Mongoose or anyone else into doing it
their way, or being abusive to people who don't want to do it
their way.
I do not think there is an awful lot known about Gvurrdon in Traveller canon anyway. I think the way forward would be to take a look at what existing canon there is that is published by major publishers (I wouldn't bother with the small ones, personally I couldn't care less about something some obscure company said 25 years ago that hasn't been seen since in a product that is long out of print), and then resolve any contradictions in whatever way Mongoose feels works. I would imagine that the best sources are Classic Traveller's Vargr alien race module, Megatraveller's Vilani and Vargr book, and GURPS Traveller's relevant Alien Race book.
But if Mongoose thinks of a better way to do something or a more interesting scenario for a given world, then by all means I think they should be encouraged to go ahead and use their own ideas. I am not interested in a product that simply parrots everything that came before it, I want something that
adds to the OTU.
Mongoose are defining their own canon now, and while it should be
based on what has gone before I do not believe (as some do) that it should be
rigidly chained to what has gone before.
There is no need for a 'schism' here, but I suspect that people like Whipsnade have no interest in adapting their ideals of what they think Traveller should be to what it actually
is (and certainly I get that impression from everything I've read that he has said about Mongoose Traveller).
