I've always thought of early Classic Traveller as being more "17th century Navies in Space." Later that feel evaporates fairly rapidly with the inclusion of Naval ships the size of the Plankwell.AKAramis said:And the feel of Traveller is very much "16th Century Navies In Space" with later graft-ins of "Yanks in Space"...
The inclusion of the Purple Heart as a wound award was a big give away that the game had elements of "Yanks in Space." Certainly some of the Gurps Traveller books tried to move away from the "Yanks in Space" thing.