On Wed, 4 May 2016 11:18:32 +0200, you wrote to Freelance Traveller:

>I was thinking about having a system, or maybe an empire in my game that
>uses rocket ships with jump drives. You know, the typical 1950s rocket ship
>that looked so splendid back then.

>Other ideas I had were worlds that uses diesel walkers, highly-functional
>steam technology, or somehow created technology based on bronze and
>something akin to the Antykitherian mechanism. Those ideas most likely
>don't make sense, but they would be cool to meet in game.

Yes! These would all be interesting to see - though the steam tech has
more-or-less sprouted into an entire subgenre, partly represented by
Space: 1889 (which appears to be back in print, though not from a
Traveller licensee).

>I currenty am working on a long-term project of reading as many old pulp
>magazines as possible, to get a nice overview of the history of the genre
>(unfortunately I don't have as much time as I want and some of this stuff
>is hoary). A lot of stuff is not quite as sensible as one would think. In a
>lot of these old stories people had just a bad grasp of how science
>actually worked, no matter how proud they were to be so much better than
>all those peasants that don't know anything about science.

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