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Old 08-12-2017, 11:14 PM   #4
MrTim
 
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Albuquerque, NM
Default Re: Mapping Traveller Game System by Period

The MegaTraveller era begins in 1116 with the beginning of the Rebellion. The background info in the core set is presented as of 1119.

The early New Era material (put out by GDW before its collapse) was set in 1200 and the years immediately following. The later licensed books were set in 1248 and featured a (much smaller) Fourth Imperium.

Traveller Hero and Traveller 5 are nominally non-era-specific, although some elements of T5's character generation are dependent on the Third or Fourth Imperium's institutions being around.

I believe that all of the first- and second-edition Mongoose Third Imperium books have a nominal starting date of 1105, right at the start of the Classic Traveller period. Given that they've issued second editions of more than one Classic Traveller adventure, this makes a certain amount of sense.
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