I think if 1248 is done right...which looks like it will be from MJD's novel. We have plenty of polities operating in a One Small Step forward or quasi-Hard Times Milieu.
Bringing Traveller more in line with a Hard SF background and whereby we can start to see lots of lower tech but more scientific Traveller with fewer handwaves. I would hope that we would see also more lower tech spaceships and the return of spacestations and the like before emphasising things like Jump Drive.
Having just read an anthology of Hard SF, I am also looking forward to 2330AD as we seem to be heading the right way there too. For lower tech space suits there was also a Challenge article or two...one dealt with Traveller 2300 (compable with Traveller) and one that was a prelude the Hard Times that also had all sorts of options.
Bringing Traveller more in line with a Hard SF background and whereby we can start to see lots of lower tech but more scientific Traveller with fewer handwaves. I would hope that we would see also more lower tech spaceships and the return of spacestations and the like before emphasising things like Jump Drive.
Having just read an anthology of Hard SF, I am also looking forward to 2330AD as we seem to be heading the right way there too. For lower tech space suits there was also a Challenge article or two...one dealt with Traveller 2300 (compable with Traveller) and one that was a prelude the Hard Times that also had all sorts of options.
