On 6/3/2020 1:56 AM, Phil Pugliese - philpugliese at yahoo.com (via tml
list) wrote:

> I suspect it's another case of DGP not really knowing Trav very well.
> Plus the natural desire, evident in many Trav products, to put one's own
> 'stamp' upon things. frequently at the expense of previous 'canon',
> which really has devolved into what could more accurately be called
> 'precedent' as the term 'canon' implies, to me at least, a degree of
> unchanging that canon in the TU has never had.

Another possibility is that they did know Traveller, took a good look at
bits of the canon that someone else had pulled out of their
arse/favorite old SF novel without modification or further
consideration, and decided that it made *No Effing Sense* in the greater
context of the 3I setting.  Which, I note, is something we do here on
the list all the time.

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