Hey Jim, didn't you post a rather lengthy sci-fi story, using this setting, on one of the old UseNet newsgroups way-back-when?
If you did, you might recall that I liked that story so much that we engaged in a rather lengthy e-mail dialog during & after.
I even received a few copies of a fan-zine that covered the same background...

p.s. I still remember that story. IMO, it was comparable to any of the 'pro' stuff published in sci-fi mags. I lost my copy years ago though. :-(

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On Thu, 5/21/15, Jim Vassilakos <jim.vassilakos@gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] What is the moral?
 To: tml@simplelists.com
 Date: Thursday, May 21, 2015, 4:09 PM

 Traveller's penchant for sending characters on
 extra-legal adventures led me to presuppose a "Dark
 Imperium", an empire that was corrupt and tyrannical.
 After all, playing the part of a smuggler or a pirate is
 inherently fraught with moral issues, but these seem mostly
 alleviated when the overall system is overtly immoral. Of
 course, I started playing Traveller around the time of
 "The Empire Strikes Back," so I was probably
 influenced more by Star Wars than by any of the "golden
 age" science fiction upon which Traveller is based.
 Nonetheless, the adventures I ran mostly involved
 corporations and multi-system polities along the periphery
 trying to break away from Imperial control. The moral, if
 there was one, was simply that the powerful always seek to
 control others for the sake of obtaining more power, and
 given the ability of high-technology to wreck large-scale
 destruction combined with the zero-sum nature of the
 conflict, my presupposition was that wars would be utterly
 ruthless, nukes would be essentially impossible to control,
 and that the damage inflicted would be quite pronounced. I
 even supposed that there would be corporations tasked with
 re-terraforming nuclear cinders after said conflicts had
 transpired.

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