How would you allow (or interpret) PC 'alignment' within a Traveller rule system/campaign?

Traveller is very clinical, but the absence of an alignment system, for lack of a better term, is not what makes it clinical. What makes Traveller clinical is the profound lack of consideration of any kind of emotion in the source material. Characters and situations are presented in a coldly rational light, and a lot of it comes off like a dry history book. I guess that's not surprising, given Traveller's wargame heritage. GURPS Traveller has a little more emotional flavor to it, but not much, and so does TNE.
I always liked the non-emotional "wargame" representation. It gives raw material for the GM to then use and mold to the likings of GM and group. The "flavor" of GT was what turned my away from GT (I like GURPS 3e as a rules set a lot). I like that governments etc. are only described extremly loosely and I get to decide what say a "Religious Olygarchy" finally looks like (Anything from the Atzteks to a Golden Harvest Shaoling Temple to a Hippy Community with a group of Gurus pulling an Amiga), how starports operate and interact with the planets etc. Too much detail constricts the freedom of the GM to shape the setting
 
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Now that's funny :ROFLMAO:

And I agree. The whole Brubek's and Astroburger nonsense made gave me a headache. Talk about Yanks in Space. The Authentic Movement was something else that really didn't need to be there. Traveller Year 1105 is about 3000 years in the future, so any "authentic" lifestyle would be the equivalent of cosplaying something from 1000BC. At least Anthony Winston Peale got his head banged into a table by an angry Solomani in one sidebar.
 
Now that's funny :ROFLMAO:

And I agree. The whole Brubek's and Astroburger nonsense made gave me a headache. Talk about Yanks in Space. The Authentic Movement was something else that really didn't need to be there. Traveller Year 1105 is about 3000 years in the future, so any "authentic" lifestyle would be the equivalent of cosplaying something from 1000BC. At least Anthony Winston Peale got his head banged into a table by an angry Solomani in one sidebar.
It feels like GT copied that idea from a certain SciFi series with a female heroine who was loosly based on a book series about a Napoleonic era naval action hero with the initials HH.

It was not all that great in the novels...
 
I would think that copyrights, patents, trade secrets, and trademarks would have expired, by then.

The franchise holder can pretend to serve you the original eleven herbs and spices.
 
The Authentic Movement would actually be fun to put into an adventure, if I wasn't taking it too seriously. It's 3500 years in the future.
I'm guessing that today, if somebody wanted to Cosplay 1500 BC, we'd get everything from Neanderthals to Crusaders... or Crusading Neanderthal Mithras worshipers riding chariots and wearing horned helmets. (well, the chariots and possibly the helmets would be more or less period).

And in 5700AD cosplaying 2000AD or 1800AD, we'd still have people wearing the same silly hats... and blowing horns?
 
It feels like GT copied that idea from a certain SciFi series with a female heroine who was loosly based on a book series about a Napoleonic era naval action hero with the initials HH.

It was not all that great in the novels...

I put it down after the first chapter.
 
The Authentic Movement would actually be fun to put into an adventure, if I wasn't taking it too seriously. It's 3500 years in the future.
I'm guessing that today, if somebody wanted to Cosplay 1500 BC, we'd get everything from Neanderthals to Crusaders... or Crusading Neanderthal Mithras worshipers riding chariots and wearing horned helmets. (well, the chariots and possibly the helmets would be more or less period).

And in 5700AD cosplaying 2000AD or 1800AD, we'd still have people wearing the same silly hats... and blowing horns?
I'm sure there was something in one Traveller publication -- I can't remember which -- that gave an example along the lines of someone replicating "authentic" Anglo-Terran cuisine, which was "kangaroo burgers and crumpets on the barbecue with mustard" or something like that, because they're not going to know that British, American and Australian were different things, any more than the average person dressed in "ancient Greek" cosplay knows which city-states were which.

I wouldn't be surprised if those authentic diners were dressed in something that blended Victorian England formal wear, 21st Century American casual attire, and, say, 22nd Century Australian Imperial uniforms (yes, the dread Australian Empire is coming). While somehow talking about how Ben Franklin, Ned Kelly, and Mr. Bean were possibly the same man.
 
I'm sure there was something in one Traveller publication -- I can't remember which -- that gave an example along the lines of someone replicating "authentic" Anglo-Terran cuisine, which was "kangaroo burgers and crumpets on the barbecue with mustard" or something like that, because they're not going to know that British, American and Australian were different things, any more than the average person dressed in "ancient Greek" cosplay knows which city-states were which.

I wouldn't be surprised if those authentic diners were dressed in something that blended Victorian England formal wear, 21st Century American casual attire, and, say, 22nd Century Australian Imperial uniforms (yes, the dread Australian Empire is coming). While somehow talking about how Ben Franklin, Ned Kelly, and Mr. Bean were possibly the same man.
But those authentic diners are time travellers from that period.
 
I wouldn't be surprised if those authentic diners were dressed in something that blended Victorian England formal wear, 21st Century American casual attire, and, say, 22nd Century Australian Imperial uniforms (yes, the dread Australian Empire is coming). While somehow talking about how Ben Franklin, Ned Kelly, and Mr. Bean were possibly the same man.
FlipFlops and Bermuda Shorts go perfectly with that dinner jacket and black tie :)
 
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