Well, how can I not follow through after that resounding encouragement?

First, a bit about the players:

I'll refer to everyone by their Discord usernames to keep things as
straight as I can.

The inner core of the group started as a face to face group (Mr Sweep,
Eddles, dingus and I) back in 2001, and morphed to an online group as
technology allowed and life happened (such as me moving to a bigger
country town, Brisbane).

Probably 2012 or so, we got the outer core together (including two
blow-ins from my then-FLGS crowd, Wombat and Easy Frag) and underway as
a regular online group over Skype, and jumped to Discord in 2017/2018.

Dingus invited his then-girlfriend-now-fiance, hex, onboard in late 2018.

The first part of the "opposite" of Tim's group is geographic - spread
up and down east coast of Australia vs Portsmouth - thus my crack about
one planetary diameter.

Second is dispersion -  I think something like 600 km apart, north to
south and ~300 km apart, east to west.

Third might well be demographic, in some contrast to the impression I
get of the Learned and Honourable Members.

Timeline:

Prehistory.

@Wombat and @Mr Sweep born.

Classic Traveller published.

@Easy Frag and I born.

MegaTraveller published.

@Eddles and @dingus born.

T4 published.

GT published.

@hex born.

T20 published.

Neither the bushfires, nor SARS II: Biochemical Boogaloo, really
affected our stride, let alone broke it.  None of us had to learn any
new gubbins, as it was what we were already using.  Hang in there Tim,
it seems to get easier with practice.

A couple of similarities to Tim's group would be differing levels of
technical skill/comfort among the members (it's not a linear gradient
with age, either), and that the complete wombat (not Tim) running PA has
never, in 22 years, ever _played_ any Traveller - has only ever GMed.

Due to those differing skill/comfort levels, I haven't yet bothered with
any auxiliary tooling except plonking stuff in the main chat, including
copypasta'd ship floorplans.  Everyone rolls their dice and reports the
results verbally or in chat as needed. 

Assuming I can get my head around the traveller_pyroute and travellermap
codebases, that may well change. But more stuff that everyone needs to
install, rather than just me?  Forget it - I'm not getting paid to do
tech support.

The worst software problems we've had, have affected mainly me (for much
lulz) - Discord's Linux client up and crashes when I'm in voice at least
once an hour or so.  It was not that bad with 0.0.10, but lived down to
expectations with 0.0.11.

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