"I hate to derail this great conversation, even if only for a moment, but could someone briefly explain more about the flaws in Book 6?"
Sir,
The 'flaws' are only from a Real World persepctive. First, LBB:6 doesn't produce a normal range of stars. That is, if we roll up 100 stars per LBB:6, their distribution across stellar types wouldn't match up with current observations.
Second, LBB:6 allows for planets around stars that shouldn't have any and allows for habitable planets around stars that couldn't support one.
Finally, LLB:6 produces planets that cannot easily be explained; like 1 billion people living on a vacumn world at a bronze age level of technology.
All of these 'flaws' are completely understandable and can be defended from an RPG standpoint. Traveller is about travelling to other worlds and interacting with the people there. Having only one inhabited world in a subsector full of stars without planetary systems really would make for an interesting setting, but that wasn't what the creators of Traveller were aiming for.
As for your setting, IMEHO LBB:6 is perfectly fine. If you wish; and I get no kicbacks from this!
, pick up GURPS Traveller's 'First In' book. The various astronomy and planetography boffins of Our Old Game have nothing but praise for it. GT:FI will lay out how to create an interstellar subsector as realistic, or as unrealistic, as you wish!
Sincerely,
Larsen
Sir,
The 'flaws' are only from a Real World persepctive. First, LBB:6 doesn't produce a normal range of stars. That is, if we roll up 100 stars per LBB:6, their distribution across stellar types wouldn't match up with current observations.
Second, LBB:6 allows for planets around stars that shouldn't have any and allows for habitable planets around stars that couldn't support one.
Finally, LLB:6 produces planets that cannot easily be explained; like 1 billion people living on a vacumn world at a bronze age level of technology.
All of these 'flaws' are completely understandable and can be defended from an RPG standpoint. Traveller is about travelling to other worlds and interacting with the people there. Having only one inhabited world in a subsector full of stars without planetary systems really would make for an interesting setting, but that wasn't what the creators of Traveller were aiming for.
As for your setting, IMEHO LBB:6 is perfectly fine. If you wish; and I get no kicbacks from this!
Sincerely,
Larsen