Oh, by the way..

[gridlore]

.. the previous entry was inspired by this essay.

and he's right. Classic Traveller had the best cover of all time. Those words still give me chills.

Comments

Oh yeah...

[izzylobo.livejournal.com]

Eric is completely correct.

This is Free Trader Beowulf, calling anyone...
Mayday, Mayday...
We are under attack...
Main drive is gone...
Turret number one not responding...
Mayday...

Losing cabin pressure fast calling anyone...
Please help...

This is Free Trader Beowulf ...

...mayday...

I was impressed beyond measure of coherent words when the initial page for GURPS:Traveller featured the following -

Free Trader Beowulf
Come in, Free Trader Beowulf
Can you hear me?
Come in, Free Trader Beowulf
Hang in there, Beowulf...
(Gurps Traveller tag)
...help is on the way!

with the suggestion that, at long last, the song of the Beowulf might actually have a happy ending...

maybe.

Re: Oh yeah...

[cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com]

Some old CT and MT die-hards (but I repeat myself) found that implication to be presumptuous of GT, to say that it was "coming to the rescue."

I say fuck 'em.

Re: Oh yeah...

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

After the death of GDW and the Creeping Horror that was T4, the news that an established company with a good history of quality was picking up the line and was hiring Loren to edit it was seen as a rescue.

Re: Oh yeah...

[izzylobo.livejournal.com]

(shrug)
I've owned Traveller products since the original LBBs - bought in a store new, still in the box. I've owned every edition of Traveller since. My hat of overly pretentious, self-important grognards knows no limit, however, so I pay their opinions little mind.

(and as Gridlore says, after the eventual fiasco that was T4, G:Traveller *was* a rescue of sorts).

Re: Oh yeah...

[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

I wonder what the cover of T5 will have on it?