Best sourcebooks on the Imperium
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mthomps016
Mongoose
Gurps Traveller Rim of Fire is one of the best setting books written. It's got a good bit on how the Imperium operates in that vision.
ShawnDriscoll
Cosmic Mongoose
Mongoose's Library Data book.
steve98052
Mongoose
It's a bit of a niche within your target domain, but GURPS Traveller Nobles is a really solid sourcebook.
Further into special interest areas are some other GURPS Traveller titles, such as Far Trader (economics, with at least one professional economist as a co-author) and Starports (about the visitor experience of a starport, not just mundane stuff like construction details).
I would guess that the recent stuff by Marc Miller would have a lot of significant details too, but I haven't seen it myself, and my secondhand impression is that the material is not organized as well as it could be.
I think the old Rebellion era sourcebooks would be useful too, because in describing how the fragmented Imperium works, one could piece together a lot about how the unified Imperium functioned. Again, however, that's more a secondhand impression.
There are also the Milieu 0 books, which describe the beginning of the Imperium. I haven't read them closely or recently, but they're interesting reading anyway. Reviews complained about rough editing, but I didn't read them closely enough to notice that.
Short answer: the information is scattered around everywhere, and if you have specific questions you might find answers more easily by asking.
Further into special interest areas are some other GURPS Traveller titles, such as Far Trader (economics, with at least one professional economist as a co-author) and Starports (about the visitor experience of a starport, not just mundane stuff like construction details).
I would guess that the recent stuff by Marc Miller would have a lot of significant details too, but I haven't seen it myself, and my secondhand impression is that the material is not organized as well as it could be.
I think the old Rebellion era sourcebooks would be useful too, because in describing how the fragmented Imperium works, one could piece together a lot about how the unified Imperium functioned. Again, however, that's more a secondhand impression.
There are also the Milieu 0 books, which describe the beginning of the Imperium. I haven't read them closely or recently, but they're interesting reading anyway. Reviews complained about rough editing, but I didn't read them closely enough to notice that.
Short answer: the information is scattered around everywhere, and if you have specific questions you might find answers more easily by asking.
