It's as if TNE locked Traveller forever into an infinite timeloop, with
the clock never to advance again (1248 excepted, but it seems chosen by
the same Valkyrie).
Next stop, the Twilight Zone.
>> Avenger were, IIRC, using Mongoose's Flaming Cobra imprint as a way to
>> get
> their
>> CT and 1248 products printed and distributed to gamestores.
>
> Avenger was using ComStar to publish their CT, 1201, and 1248 products
> until
> the
> Avenger license was sunset because of the Mongoose license.
>
>> As it stands, the only people who can now publish OTU material are
> Mongoose, SJG
>> (though they haven't done anything new for years - I think they're just
> using
>> their license to be able to continue to sell GT books), and FFE.
>
> After being sunset, Avenger had to work through and with Mongoose. Some of
> the
> Avenger products (e.g. Project Steel) that were CT-related were updated to
> use MGT
> and published using Mongoose's Flaming Cobra. However, none of the 1201 or
> 1248
> products have seen the light of day through Mongoose. (Though,
> fortunately,
> they
> are included on the TNE 2 CD-ROM from FFE.) This heavily implies that
> Mongoose wants
> nothing to do with 1201 or 1248 stuff. Presumably because they want to
> stay
> focused
> on their 1105 setting. Considering that Mongoose appears to be greatly
> hesitant to
> even do the Fifth Frontier War, I expect that the Traveller timeline under
> Mongoose
> will never get past 1112 at the absolute farthest.
>
> Mike West
>
>
>