Long-time lurker here. The Ashes of the Chimera movie team seems to be in the middle of crowdfunding a second movie, Ashes of the Chimera, and have a trilogy planned out.
https://seedandspark.com/fund/ashes-of-the-chimera
I watcted the first one - while the acting was rough, it was surprisingly Travelleresque. Like, woah.
While seemingly taking pains to avoid copying any Traveller TTRPG series IP (or perhaps just riffing off the same roots as Traveller, maybe especially the CoDominium and Motie series), the storyline is as much or more Traveller as a Gregory P. Lee, Swycaffer, or Chadwick "not Traveller, wink" story. Production is interesting - this first one had a $20K budget and was almost entirely filmed on greenscreen - they did a remarkable job with the look and feel given that. Actors and director are early days in their careers, and it shows, but the story and hard scifi setting, plus internal storyline consistencies really make the setting come across as real. A lot goes (thankfully) unexplained where you can tell whatever is being mentioned has meaning from a world-building doc for the people involved (much like in Firefly's immersive setting).
Several classic (Traveller and scifi) storylines and tropes are here. The young noble whose family bought him his commission (obligatory, "hey, at least he survived character generation"); the starship that's not in great shape; the privateer-like mission; the fading pocket empire; complex planetary societies; competing factions; experimental systems that got stuck onto a rustbucket patrol ship because it's expendable; the submarine-like feel of ship operations; political overtones coming from well above the characters' league; the computer that most certainly is not an AI and probably-wouldn't-be-allowed-to-be-one; the possibility of a mis-jump and what happens if you do; even a little hint of Virus, maybe; and the mission to look for mysterious ships-reported-in-the-void-between-stars.
I'm not associated with these guys at all (found the movie from the post above and a random AMZ prime search for movies). I have pledged to this new campaign of theirs because there just isn't enough Traveller-like scifi out there.
