I've always wondered why MM never got around to this project. (see bottom)

I went to the KickS page & found some interesting items;

#1 "This 80,000+ word (about 250 to 300 pages) novel is faithful to the OTU Original Traveller Universe in the way that only the originator and chronicler of the universe can make it. Along the way, this novel reveals secrets of the history of the empire that have never before been revealed. It spans 400 years from early Imperium (about 300) through the mid-post Civil War period (about 700) touching known and unknown events you may have encountered in your own reading of the Imperium: everyday events, political intrigue, deadly dangers, Arbellatra, Capital, Encyclopediopolis, the Karand's Palace, and a Tigress-class Dreadnought."
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[Wonder how he's going to reconcile a late-Imperium (post-SolRimWar) BB in story set no later than 300 years earlier? ]

#2 "Jonathan Bland is a Decider, empowered by the Emperor himself to deal with the inevitable crises of empire. In the service of the Empire, he has killed more people than anyone in the history of Humanity, to save a hundred times as many. He died centuries ago, but they re-activate his recorded personality whenever a new threat appears. When the crisis is over, they expect he will meekly return to oblivion."

[Does the 3I even have this capability c1100 & TL15 much less 400 years earlier?]

Still it does sound interesting & it will fill a gap of sorts in the Imperial Chronicle.
However, I wonder why he didn't make 'Jon' one of the 'old style' archdukes, who where, as I recall, crested & commissioned for just these types of missions?

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On Tue, 11/3/15, coti <xxxxxx@lists.travellerrpg.com> wrote:

 Subject: [CotI] News from Traveller and FFE
 To: xxxxxx@lists.travellerrpg.com
 Date: Tuesday, November 3, 2015, 8:36 AM

 In This Email: 

 The Traveller Novel

 I have always wanted to
 show my vision of the Traveller
 universe in a fiction format: from the earliest days of
 role-playing (that
 would be the late 1970’s, for those of you who are
 counting), the thought of a
 sprawling, star-spanning adventure through the Imperium has
 been there in the
 back (and sometimes the front) of my mind. With the
 completion of the
 Traveller5 core rules, and with all of its concepts fresh in
 my mind, the
 inspiration came to me in a flash this past June, and it has
 been pouring from
 my fingertips ever since.  

 Come visit our Kickstarter
 page, look it over, and then back
 us to see this Traveller novel.

 and thanks for your
 support.

 Marc  

  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/traveller5/agent-of-the-imperium-marc-millers-traveller-novel