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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TrippyHippy" data-source="post: 9473242" data-attributes="member: 27252">Traveller: 2300AD was not associated, setting-wise with Traveller’s Charted Space/3rd Imperium setting. The technology and timelines of both settings don’t mesh at all. Nor did the rule-set - until Traveller: The New Era was published with the then GDW house-system. I think it was basically an attempt to market 2300AD as a new harder sci-fi setting for Traveller players to get into. This led to confusion so the next edition cut the Traveller pre-title. The irony is that, when Mongoose republished it, it became a direct alternative setting for use with the core Traveller rules. And 2300AD was a direct sequel to Twilight: 2000, highlighting the same timeline of events and sharing the same rules in its 1st edition. Free League disassociated the Twilight: 2000/2300AD link when they got their licence and Mongoose downplayed it in their newer edition of 2300AD (the Twilight era is now presented as a vague history of lost knowledge). You could still link the two although you’d have to do it yourself. Still having an aggressive beetle-like alien species unexpectedly invade Poland at some point in the early post-armageddon 21st century would make an interesting plot twist!</blockquote>