This question came up in a design discussion with Marc Miller, Robert Eaglestone and myself the other day, and I wanted to see what the TNE experts would have to say.
Imagine it's 1992, and you're designing T3... All of the same elements that create TNE are there, except it's D6, not the GDW House System. Does much change (other than the die type)?
For example, it's my belief that Traveller was already heading towards FF&S -- the interest in building Traveller from the ground up with the Striker materials spread across it, was already there. It's partially in MegaTraveller.
It's just idle speculation, but Marc is interested in your thoughts.