You know, I just got into THS and think it's an excellent game setting that in one way reminds me of traveller.
In one way it is a lot like traveller in that it tried to be faithful to real science and physics, like traveller did.
In the other way it's the exact opposite of traveller in that it doesn't limit tech to emphasize player action but instead takes tech advancement and it's effect on everything and goes to the limit with it.
In traveller, the big advances over the world at the time were space travel and gravitich control. Those were about the only two things that were really beyond the pale, so to speak.
Now in THS the ONLY things they DON'T have are advanced space/ftl travel and gravitic control, but what they DO have is awesome and scientifically within the realm of possibility. Genetic modifications, artificial intelligence, digital minds, microbotics, nanotech, etc.
People who like traveller might want to explore THE for a game that has some similar philosophies but takes them in the opposite direction.
In one way it is a lot like traveller in that it tried to be faithful to real science and physics, like traveller did.
In the other way it's the exact opposite of traveller in that it doesn't limit tech to emphasize player action but instead takes tech advancement and it's effect on everything and goes to the limit with it.
In traveller, the big advances over the world at the time were space travel and gravitich control. Those were about the only two things that were really beyond the pale, so to speak.
Now in THS the ONLY things they DON'T have are advanced space/ftl travel and gravitic control, but what they DO have is awesome and scientifically within the realm of possibility. Genetic modifications, artificial intelligence, digital minds, microbotics, nanotech, etc.
People who like traveller might want to explore THE for a game that has some similar philosophies but takes them in the opposite direction.