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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TDRandall" data-source="post: 4655819" data-attributes="member: 4808">Wow.  Just... wow.  Call out the guy for not shooting a bulls-eye, when the entire discussion had veered away from the target completely.Certainly my contribution was at least in the realm of "using traveller for other space settings", as opposed to, say, asking for the source on news of a lapsing license for a different set of books the same company may be making, or an upcoming completely different setting, or pointing out one's opinion on the usefulness of another's post. (apologies to daddystabz and Urizen)  Yet you didn't reach out to give them a drubbing.The original quesiton at least mentions classic traveller, which I spoke from.  There's a sense of needing to know where you may be starting FROM, to know how much work may be needed to arrive at the destination you want.  Doing so at least prompted a bit more discussion in the following hours after my post when he was concerned with no responses in the first five hours after his initial question.Since you evidently have access to the books, perhaps you can give fuller detail to us all which will satisfactorily answer the underlying question.  The existence of applicable sidebars is good to know, but I expect we both have come across plenty of books whose sidebars aren't worth the amount of page space given to them.How detailed/useful/easy to implement ARE the sidebars to transfer from the core setting to another?  Are they on the thin end of "handwave 1 parsec per week as 1 light year per hour per warp number used" and "the concept of PPGs is best arrived as using the stats for slug throwers and describing them as energy discharges" and "Vulcans are Zhodani except for the following minor changes, and "You can use Hivers with minor changes to get at both Binars and Borg" and "Minbari tanks are equivalent to TL14 FMPG hovertanks"?  Or are we talking full blown "here is how you tweek the rules to get a Next Generation era Federation ship and by the way here are the specific stats for a Galaxy class cruiser" and "here is exactly what you need to to change/add/delete to get B5 telepaths" and "here are full racial stats for andolosians, ferengi, Jem'Hadar, and Tholians"?  I'd love the latter rather than the former, but I suspect they are somewhere in between, once you remove any references to copyright/trademark names of races and such.Hey, sell it well enough and I'm in for a set.  I admit that when I first heard about Mongoose doing Traveller my response was "do I really need another version of it?" (it will be the ... 6th? incarnation on my shelves) but if it does crossover well and easily then I will gladly shelve my Alternity books up for something shiney and new.</blockquote>

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