So I just stumbled into Traveller, almost literally. I found a second-hand copy of the 2e book at a local bookstore along with High Guard and the CSC. Which I ended up picking up. That lead to me looking it up online and listening to Seth Skorkowsky talk about it for something like a combination of 6-ish hours. Naturally, I was now in pure hype mode.
Unfortunately when I lobbed this grenade of a game into my friend group, the reactions weren't great. I had the expected slew of jokes about dying in chargen, someone lecturing me on how bad space combat was because dogfighting is "unrealistic," and then talk about things like Starfinder being "more popular."
So my chances of getting to PLAY in the setting are pretty much nil. I was hoping to find out if there are novels or such I can use to dip into the setting on my own?