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EvilDrGanymede
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Why is it that people take TNE as some kind of personal affront? I really don't understand this attitude. I don't think GDW really thought 'I know, let's give the finger to everyone who wrote anything for Traveller before now and turn it all into ash and ruins to spite them'. To me, the collapse and Final War seemed like a very logical results of the Rebellion that was consuming the Imperium. OK, Virus was perhaps a bit over the top, but it really served as the final hammerblow that sent the whole rickety house of cards crashing down around everyone's ears. How else did you expect the Rebellion to end? Eventually either everyone would keel over from attrition, and you'd get a Long Night type thing, or someone would release some Doomsday Weapon out of desparation or by accident, which is what ended up happening in the end. Barring some other Deus Ex Machina (I've heard tell that Antares going supernova was one thing that was originally suggested that would end the Rebellion), how else could it end?
Besides which, a setting in which nothing changes is a bloody boring one, I think. MT and TNE gave CT a much needed kick up the arse IMO, and made the Traveller universe a suddenly much more exciting and interesting place to be. I'd have thought the fall of the Third Imperium would be a setting that people would find much more interesting to adventure in than a nice, stable, not very exciting Imperium. "Interesting Times" are given that name for a reason, you know
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Empires come and go, and have come and gone in Traveller's history. Hell, they do just that in the Foundation books, and weren't those supposed to be an important influence on Traveller?
As for the Regency, I haven't got the Regency book yet... but do you really think that a small pocket of the Imperium would survive the collapse totally intact, even if it did cut off from the rest of Charted Space? Of course things would change inside it, despite the quarantine. It's not going to be a little pocket of the old Imperium where life goes on as if nothing happened.
Besides which, a setting in which nothing changes is a bloody boring one, I think. MT and TNE gave CT a much needed kick up the arse IMO, and made the Traveller universe a suddenly much more exciting and interesting place to be. I'd have thought the fall of the Third Imperium would be a setting that people would find much more interesting to adventure in than a nice, stable, not very exciting Imperium. "Interesting Times" are given that name for a reason, you know
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Empires come and go, and have come and gone in Traveller's history. Hell, they do just that in the Foundation books, and weren't those supposed to be an important influence on Traveller?
As for the Regency, I haven't got the Regency book yet... but do you really think that a small pocket of the Imperium would survive the collapse totally intact, even if it did cut off from the rest of Charted Space? Of course things would change inside it, despite the quarantine. It's not going to be a little pocket of the old Imperium where life goes on as if nothing happened.