TNE with T-20 creeping in, a home brew style Mr Shocker, utilizing the CT-MT-TNE timeline of events...and heretical inserts from BITS 101 books, Milieu 0 "Pocket empires" (for economic reasons!)..and liberally mined web sites of traveller ideas...in a word:
Byzantine. I expect complete transfer to T-20 within two years...But all is in playing with previous OTU.
As fer stars, I never asked fer any.. they appear from time to time.. Ratings are subjective... they rise, they fall.Don't be shallow and get caught up in this trap...I don't.
As for yer last line....hmmmm.
My policy on stars is to worthy postings/posters. at least 3+ or more, 4 average. 5 rating is for outstanding(impresses the hell out of me)stuff. I have never given lower.
Its a subjective approach (i confess), rather than "sandbag a person with "lower stars", i simply do not give them.
I don't play that "game". My basis in judgement is based on idea/ content/ and very personable. Biased? perhaps, but then we are only human...