Traveller Theme 4: LTU

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This discussion is to spell out the rule/setting combination known as the LTU. I'll keep this OP updated as the model gets refined.

The LTU is a large-ship, high-traffic setting which shares the known timeline with the OTU, up to 1116 (there are discussions about behind-the-scenes undocumented happenings before then). It is described in GURPS: Traveller (GT) supplements.

GT materials cover a setting where the emperor of the Third Imperium was not assassinated, the Imperium does not dissolve through civil war, and Virus is not unleashed upon Charted Space. It is in that sense an extension of the "Golden Era" that the OTU focused on for the first ten years of Traveller. As a result, much of the OTU material is also usable by the LTU: for example, the CT Alien Modules remain valuable setting material, as do the CT adventures.

While the LTU is only used by the GT ruleset, the timeline, assumptions, and Library Data are well divorced from actual rules, to the point where the setting is easily ported to any version of Traveller.

 

[mike wightman]

You do not need to use GURPS to use the LTU. Some conversion is required but it can easily be used with any ruleset of your choice to continue a golden age setting with no Rebellion.
You will have to decide if the empress wave is a thing or not...

 

[robject]

Agreed and noted, but the setting information is nevertheless contained in GURPS publications, and I need to get a list of the ones which are crucial to understanding the LTU.

 

[inexorabletash]

One obvious source is the JTAS Online TNS entries; I believe these officially persist on the wiki now but I have a copy up at http://calormen.com/tns/gt.html

Otherwise, to restate the problem: we're looking for statements in GT supplements which explicitly reference post-1116 events. Presumably rare (just knowing the style in which the books were written) but surely there are some...