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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 4861479" data-attributes="member: 19675">You could be very happy with Traveller, in almost any system its been published.&nbsp; It can be lethal, but crafty and intelligent play can alleviate a good deal of lethality.&nbsp; And the campaign you described it pretty typical.Alternity: StarDrive is also quite good, as is Star HERO (run in the HERO system).&nbsp; Space Opera has its fans.In addition, as you might guess from Star HERO, any of the better &quot;toolbox&quot; RPGs should provide a solid foundation for this type of game.&nbsp; You could run it in M&amp;M, for instance, and if GURPS doesn't have an appropriate campaign setting or sourcebook, I'd be greatly surprised.There are also hosts of other games out there.&nbsp; I liked the old, long OoP game Universe from the now-defunct SPI.&nbsp; In some ways, it was a worthy rival for the early editions of Traveller, but it died with the company.There is another game out there with the same name that just came out within the last 2 years.&nbsp; It looks good in the bookstore, but beyond that?There are also RPGs based on all kinds of IP out there- Prime Directive based on Classic Trek, Star Wars, Stargate...As an interesting confluence, there are 2 different Terran Trade Authority RPG based on Stewart Cowley's classic books- one currently available at Amazon (and a few other places) [ame=http://www.amazon.com/Terran-Trade-Authority-Roleplaying-Game/dp/0978015118]Amazon.com: The Terran Trade Authority Roleplaying Game: Scott Agnew, Stewart Cowley, Jeff Lilly: Books[/ame]...and the other using Mongoose's Traveller system, due sometime this year.The original seems to have fairly favorable reviews, but again, I haven't seen it personally.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terran_Trade_Authority" target="_blank">Terran Trade Authority - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 4861479, member: 19675"] You could be very happy with Traveller, in almost any system its been published. It can be lethal, but crafty and intelligent play can alleviate a good deal of lethality. And the campaign you described it pretty typical. Alternity: StarDrive is also quite good, as is Star HERO (run in the HERO system). Space Opera has its fans. In addition, as you might guess from Star HERO, any of the better "toolbox" RPGs should provide a solid foundation for this type of game. You could run it in M&M, for instance, and if GURPS doesn't have an appropriate campaign setting or sourcebook, I'd be greatly surprised. There are also hosts of other games out there. I liked the old, long OoP game Universe from the now-defunct SPI. In some ways, it was a worthy rival for the early editions of Traveller, but it died with the company. There is another game out there with the same name that just came out within the last 2 years. It looks good in the bookstore, but beyond that? There are also RPGs based on all kinds of IP out there- Prime Directive based on Classic Trek, Star Wars, Stargate... As an interesting confluence, there are 2 different Terran Trade Authority RPG based on Stewart Cowley's classic books- one currently available at Amazon (and a few other places) [ame=http://www.amazon.com/Terran-Trade-Authority-Roleplaying-Game/dp/0978015118]Amazon.com: The Terran Trade Authority Roleplaying Game: Scott Agnew, Stewart Cowley, Jeff Lilly: Books[/ame] ...and the other using Mongoose's Traveller system, due sometime this year. The original seems to have fairly favorable reviews, but again, I haven't seen it personally. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terran_Trade_Authority]Terran Trade Authority - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/url] [/QUOTE]

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