On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 10:41 PM, Kurt Feltenberger <xxxxxx@thepaw.org> wrote:

On 12/20/2015 10:17 PM, Richard Aiken wrote:

Dark Matter is IMO quite close to Traveller, so long as you overlook a few technical details such as ubiquitous high-end automation, no apparent requirement for jump fuel and constant access to FTL communication.

About the only thing I see that's truly different is the FTL communication . . .

I forgot one. Dark Matter jumps sometimes seem to take at least a few days (long enough for the crew to complain about the same food at every meal) and sometimes only a few hours (such as when Two "went away" in the pilot).

But - as you say - the only really big one is instant FTL comms. They even have giant megacorps running everything of significance out on the rim and fighting wars between themselves pretty much with impunity, while the Galactic Authority looks on like a futuristic U.N.

Richard Aiken

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