All I can do is give you my perspective ...
> 1. Just out of curiosity, what did the folks on this list think of that? I
> don't think I had any choice.
You didn't go nearly far enough. Quite frankly, even with the changes, there
were a huge number of worlds with impossible stellar data. The biggest issue
was just the vast number of "dwarf" stars. Really, a "dwarf" star has no
spectral class (which all of the ones listed did have) and the presence of
a white dwarf would eliminate the possibility of a habitable world in the
system, even if it was the "other" star of a binary or trinary system.
Don't get me wrong. It was a huge improvement. But it was only an incremental
step. It didn't actually fix the problem.
> 2. Did subsequent editions of Traveller hang onto the star changes, or
> stick with the DGP computer run?
In the only setting set after TNE, which was TNE 1248, we definitely did
use the updated star information. For 1248 Spinward States, I used the
updated stars as my basis, then updated them *again* to improve the
situation. For the most part, all I really did was change any "D" star
to a "V" star (without changing the spectral class), unless the main
world was a vacuum or near vacuum world. In that case, I eliminated the
spectral class (which is meaningless for a white dwarf) and kept it a
white dwarf. I think there ended up being less than 10 white dwarf
stars in all of the Domain of Deneb. (Which is actually a reasonable
count.)
I believe the Freedom League sourcebook did also. (The Freedom League
was what the Reformation Coalition evolved into in the 1248 setting.)
There was one exception to the limited changes: Pashus. In the RSB it
was a naval depot and a research station that delved into temporal
mechanics. I had them have a really, really, really bad accident that
artificially aged the star (along with everything else in the system).
I do have one question for you on that, if you can remember. For the most
part, when you updated the star information, you did it retroactively. So,
even though you listed both 1117 and 1202 data for every world, you only
listed the new, updated stellar data. Except for *one* world. That world
you listed both the old and the new stellar data, and the stars weren't
anywhere close. I always assumed that was a typo. Was there an implied
story there?
Mike West