I love scifi, I love RPGs, I love lifepath systems, but I managed to consistently miss Traveller through my gaming career. Closest I've come is a friend's game who made a system that was basically an homage to Trav, but his own thing.

At this point in my life I'd rather use something like Fate or DungeonWorld or D&D5e or whatnot to run something space opera-ish, but I'd still be drawing heavily on second hand info about Traveller.

In one of my sketches of a scifi game, I even went and looked up UWP codes and charts for inspiration.

Reading over Trav again as I get ready for this weekend's new campaign, I certainly would add points to Trav's contender status for the title of this thread.