No matter how gentle a descent angle, there's no workable meteoric reentry profile for my 800 Dton 10:1 Cd=0.22 ship, when mass is set appropriately. There are workable situations in which drogue and then parachutes are deployed that would slow the ship to survivable impact speed, but never in my life have I been able to imagine a Traveller ship with any form of parachute attached. 

So I turned to the next obvious option: lifepods. Somewhere I had once seen a drawing of a Traveller lifepod intended for reentry that was not pressurized (and open to space even) which basically was a mass of ablative material on the front, with a space for the Traveller to lay down on immediately behind it. The whole thing as probably on the order of 1-2 Dton, most of which was just a frame. It would include some means of propulsion to give something like a 20-40 m/s kick to deorbit it, and that would supply a low orbiting craft or space station a means of evacuating personnel. 

What would reentry from such a pod look like? 

The meteoric trail will start to appear at 1300-1400s after deorbit burn [this is an estimate based on heat flux, I'll have to dig around some academic papers for a bit to put a better model together], when the pod is still at 112km altitude and moving 7.84 km/sec. Heat flux increases dramatically from then to about 1945s, deceleration would be close to 6g, the lifepod still at 56 km altitude and velocity 4.5 km/sec. Peak deceleration, at around 7g, is about 20 seconds later. Velocity has already slowed to 3.1 km/sec though and the worst of it is just about over. 

By 2100 seconds, the meteor trail will have significantly diminished and net acceleration on the craft is only 1/10th of a g, around its terminal velocity - the pod is only moving at 113 m/s and altitude is 17.4 km. 

At 15 km altitude, at 2125 seconds, the parachute deploys and velocity slows further to 90 meters/sec. Conditions are now gentle enough that the Traveller may wish to take stock of the situation and, if the viewing perspective permits, estimate the terrain where she might make planetfall. She has a good 20 minutes to do this and may easily believe that perhaps the designers programmed the parachute to open too soon (returning US space probes tended to open parachutes at 8-9km though - I'm guessing that a generalized lifepod that might have to make entry in thin atmospheres would like to error on the side of parachute opening early).

At 3408 seconds, the lifepod arrives safely on the ground at a relatively gentle 5.78 meters per second. 56 minutes, 48 seconds after pulling the ejection handle, the presumably shaken Traveller unfastens the safety harness and climbs out of her reentry couch.