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See Star Frontiers in these forums makes me wonder...

Is Traveler and Space Opera still around?
You can find a Traveler game on occasion here but I've not seen any Space Opera.
People have run and played Star Frontiers, Traveller (I have run 4 Traveller Mongoose campaigns here over the years), Last Unicorn Star Trek, (I am setting up to run the New Star Trek by Modiphus) but not Space opera by FGU, not that I have seen. just too old of a game system.
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Pardalis66, back in the day (70's/early 80's) Space Opera was considered an 'unplayable game'.  Of course, I took it as a challenge!  :)  I ran a couple Space Opera campaigns and they turned out pretty good.  However, I did cheat and revised the system on how to gain skills so one could consider me as having cheated. However, I have a soft spot for Space Opera.  I thought it got sold short.  I brought it up because I just went through my stuff from 40 years ago I had boxed up in the attic...found my D&D stuff including the original Grey Hawk 4 books that got us into D&D, and Space Opera.  No Traveler though and have no idea where they might have gotten to.  I imagine they upgraded it since the 70's anyway.  Still scratching where my Gamma World, Starship Centari, Traveler, Star Frontiers, Top Secret, Twilight 2000 and a couple other game sets are off to.  Hopefully I will find a box in storage somewhere with them :) Space Opera really worked for a campaign I had that started with finding out the moons of Mars were artificial.  Traveler and Star Frontiers realllyyy didn't fit what was needed like Space Opera did.
Oh yeah, I had all of the old Space Opera books. And Spacemaster, all the old sf titles. Never found players for most of those except Traveller, Star Frontiers, and A little bit of spacemaster.  Never got Space Opera off the ground.  (I'm 51, gaming since 1977).