On 11/16/2015 4:36 PM, Evyn MacDude wrote:
> Well since it is a Science Fiction game based on the Literary SF of the
> 50's and 60's you failed to compare and contrast your absurdities with
> appropriate ones from the source fiction. Thematically everything you
> list is a trope in the periods SF. Traveller is a game of Pieces,
> everybody use different bits, including the Bits of the "Official"
> background.

Beat me to it.  Most of the silliness of the OTU can be traced directly
to the source material:  space opera of the 20th century, particularly
the middle decades, with some influences from before and after.  It's
every bit as much a period piece/relic of its era as cyberpunk and Space
1889, though only the last of those was deliberate as of its writing.

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