Traveller Classic: where is the setting?

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Originally Posted by Peter Knutsen

I'm confining my reply to noninteractive fiction that was around when 1st edition Traveller was published.

When I started playing LBB Traveller (right after it came out), the lack of an "official" setting never seemed to bother any of us. We used movies and novels as sources for our games.

Heck, I played in a campaign that it took nearly two months of real time for most of the players to find out that our tramp merchant ship was captained by Deno Solo, whose brother was a fairly well known smuggler.

Peter, of course, is correct. It would have been very hard for any of us then to use a TV series, 30 or so years in the future, as a source.