As far as "only so much... in its base form", well, this is also a good
place to toss out and discuss Doing It Your Way - or Doing It Someone
Else's Way. I'd love to see threads on (say) Travellerizing the Liaden
Universe, or the Vattaverse, or the Jao Empire universe, or Can The Special
Corps (from the Stainless Steel Rat series) Be Imported Into A Traveller
Universe, And What Would Its Career Tables And Chargen Look Like?. And
that's just off the top of my head. I'm sure that if I announced the desire
to do a Religion In Traveller Theme Issue, we could get some relevant
discussions going here, which in turn might inspire people to write
articles for the Theme Issue…
(as a test of embedded images to see how it will look in the archive)
Or, for example, discussing the two different Reginas that exist in Traveller. There is the Book 6 Regina, and the Traveller 5 example system Regina. Neither are dynamically stable, and Traveller-5’s version destabilizes within an orbital period (in simple terms, Regina is outside the 1/3rd Hill Sphere radius of Assiniboia when in orbit Arr). In the plot, the blue orbit paths are idealized paths derived from kepler orbit elements, and the red and dashed paths output from nbody simulation.
Leading to Regina entering an independent orbit around Assiniboia:
