Post originally by Richard Wells at 2003-10-27 23:49:08
Converted from Phorums BB System

Earth was needed. All the information about the various disagreements between the various spacefaring nations were largely only relevant where they all would interact and that would be Earth. Unfortunately, the various Earth centered supplements were both weak and felt like they were set in a different universe with technology not available to the advanced military.

Ignoring Earth and all the attendant back story would have made it easy to turn the Kafer invasion into just another standard Traveller adventure set in a distant sector: Hovertanks of the Chamax if you will. But if the writers are going to waste all those pages, they had better produce some form of potential payoff for the unimportant information.