[mxyzplk]

Yeah, the problem with every single edition of Traveller is that it's not a good introduction to Traveller.

To get any sort of a coherent sense of "what's the Traveller universe like" you always - Gurps Traveller, T20, classic - have to buy an antire suite of books and even then there's pretty fundamental questions about "No really so as a normal citizen, what's it like to... " that go unanswered. It's the achilles heel of Traveller and why it tends to only appeal to the same group of grognards and converts in incarnation after incarnation.