Outworld Authority
Chris Kubasik in his wonderful blog called Classic Traveller: Out of the Box ¸ has brought Traveller back to its beginnings¸ as a simple but flexible set of three ‘Little Black Books' that can be used to create stories in the sci-fi setting of your own imagination.
OUTWORLD is a short and simple setting¸ inspired by the movies Alien¸ Aliens¸ Outland and Silent Running (amongst others) and it uses only the tools and rules of Traveller Books 1¸ 2 and 3 to help build a rough facsimile of those movies. The setting is entirely original¸ and not connected to the settings of Ridley Scott's Alien or Blade Runner movies¸ but it is inspired by his films¸ by the others in my list above and by later movies (the Alien sequels for a start). It is not connected to my game HOSTILE¸ either.
In the spirit of Chris Kubasik's Traveller blog¸ let's stick to the rules as written if we can¸ and keep our game setting small¸ manageable and bursting with adventure opportunities.