Along with economics, the ethical and moral underpinnings of the 3I (or TU!) are not well documented. I think it rather reflects the social mentality environment of most TU contributing writers during the USA's 1980s when ''greed is good'' was the slogan.
Greg
On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 4:46 PM, Michael McKinney <archangel620@gmail.com> wrote:--The idea that "the Prime Directive is violated" seems a theme in Traveller, but its a theme missing from Warhammer 40K. Well, there is one singular moment of it occurring, but the person responsible dies and thus is the reason for the post-apocalyptic feeling to the setting.I think you have Traveller confused with Star Trek. A Prime Directive - in the sense of "Don't interfere with the development of the poor, low-tech natives." - is not and never has been a feature of Traveller. The closest canon comes to that sentiment is that the Scout Service is *occasionally* able to get the Emperor to declare a particular native homeworld off-limits . . . so long as there isn't a megacorp which thinks that it can make a decent profit there.The prime directive of Traveller is the same as in modern Western society: "Make money however you can . . . just don't get caught."Richard Aiken
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