Traveller Chronicle was just the standard freebie fanzine license, so the
SoK material was not at all official on that basis, but if elements of it
were later gathered up in the chariot into paradise, well, there you go.
> "So here's the loaded question: did you base your existing CoE stuff on
> the
> DGP data or something else?"
> DGP's dot map, and bits and pieces out of Solomani & Aslan. Actually,
> the Winston Democracy and Malorn Union first made their appearance in
> S&A. GT referenced the Malorn Union in their publication GURPS
> Traveller: Alien Races 4 in discussing another alien race.
> Kinda messy....and Traveller story canon is very much a layer cake made of
> a variety sources. Sources that can find themselves out of print but not
> forgotten.
> FYI: If you want really messy, technically Gabreelism, which makes
> reference to a religion mentioned in S&A (The Searchers for the One
> Faith), is canon in T4 by virtue of the fact of appearing in the licensed
> BITS publication "101 Religions" and predates anything done with the 1248
> setting, in addition to appearing in Traveller Chronicle (licensing
> originally murky), now part of the collection of canon at FFE (so I've
> heard).
> The bottomline I think is that we can spend ours talking about the writing
> or we can...you know...write. ;-)
> Anyway, expect Aldebaran Sector, the CoE version with additional c.1105
> data, sometime in the coming months. I'll let you people parse out what
> I drew from where and what I made up as I went. I promise it won't be
> boring.
>
SoK material was not at all official on that basis, but if elements of it
were later gathered up in the chariot into paradise, well, there you go.
> "So here's the loaded question: did you base your existing CoE stuff on
> the
> DGP data or something else?"
> DGP's dot map, and bits and pieces out of Solomani & Aslan. Actually,
> the Winston Democracy and Malorn Union first made their appearance in
> S&A. GT referenced the Malorn Union in their publication GURPS
> Traveller: Alien Races 4 in discussing another alien race.
> Kinda messy....and Traveller story canon is very much a layer cake made of
> a variety sources. Sources that can find themselves out of print but not
> forgotten.
> FYI: If you want really messy, technically Gabreelism, which makes
> reference to a religion mentioned in S&A (The Searchers for the One
> Faith), is canon in T4 by virtue of the fact of appearing in the licensed
> BITS publication "101 Religions" and predates anything done with the 1248
> setting, in addition to appearing in Traveller Chronicle (licensing
> originally murky), now part of the collection of canon at FFE (so I've
> heard).
> The bottomline I think is that we can spend ours talking about the writing
> or we can...you know...write. ;-)
> Anyway, expect Aldebaran Sector, the CoE version with additional c.1105
> data, sometime in the coming months. I'll let you people parse out what
> I drew from where and what I made up as I went. I promise it won't be
> boring.
>