Traveller - Where Prep Is Play

We say quite often in the solo gaming world that "prep is play." Meaning that preparing for your solo game - rolling characters, building a world or map to explore, getting all of the scaffolding of a campaign together - is a part of playing the game. I'm not sure I've ever managed to have as much fun prepping for a game as I have with Traveller. It's tedious and time consuming and just fun. I've rolled up four characters. I'm halfway through creating a subsector. It's taken days upon days of prep, stuff that I usually wish would go faster, and for once I don't want to hit fast forward. I'm just that into it. Now, it isn't perfect. Especially with Mongoose Traveller 2e, there's a lot of info spread between different books, and the organization could be better. Especially when it comes to tinkering around with creating your own setting, which I'm invested in. Frankly, I find the Third Imperium setting to be intimidating with all those years of history behind it, so for my first game…