Comment on “The End of Star Jumper”

Please check my understanding.

I am somewhat familiar with Traveller. Normally, the players roll through several of these four-year cycles in the Navy or what have you. They get various skills and eventually they muster out and the real game begins.

Am I correct in saying that what you created was a separate game entirely, which was about playing out the events of military life, using the Traveler lifepaths as a guide for how skills, etc accrued over time? That is to say: was the intent for the "real game" (as above) to ever take place after the eventual muster-outs, or was the game you describe here a separate beast, a military-life game unto itself? It seems like it would take ages to reach the "real game" if the former is the case, so I assume it to be the latter. In either case it sounds like a damn good time.