From the back cover: Path of Tears: The Star Viking Sourcebook establishes the standard for campaign backgrounds in Traveller: The New Era. Space may be infinitely large, containing billions of habitable worlds, but each of these worlds is unique, and home to innumerable potential adventures. Space is not interesting because it contains thousands of cookie-cutter planets; it is fascinating because it contains thousands of unique, multi-faceted worlds. Because of this philosophy, Path of Tears, and following New Era campaign support materials, will provide an effectively inexhaustible adventure resource.