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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MattW" data-source="post: 8453595" data-attributes="member: 7029432">All the various Traveller systems are good, but it's the world-building that makes them interesting.  Most follow Classic Traveller; they have a very stable and semi-feudal interstellar Imperium as the backdrop.Megatraveller is "The Decline and Fall of the Imperium" during a multi-sided civil war.   Some people found it a depressing idea, but it did open up all sorts of scenarios .  My group enjoyed fighting petty warlords,  rescuing refugees, and setting up safe havens.Traveller: the New Era is set several decades AFTER the fall of the Imperium and has a big problem with plausibility.  The final collapse of the Imperium was brought about by a sort of AI rebellion.  It has THE VIRUS which can add (evil and/or eccentric) Artificial Intelligence to any computer or robot.  It gets worse. The simplest piece of electronics might secretly contain VIRUS "eggs" and could infect a more capable computer.  The mechanism of producing AI was... not plausible.  I suspect that most referees changed that particular part of the background.  However, TNE has one really important characteristic: TNE was wonderful for the gearheads.  I spent far too much time playing with the supplement "Fire, Fusion and Steel"; it had rules for designing everything.  I also recommend the  'Reformation Coalition Equipment Guide'.</blockquote>