From the back cover: Inside Traveller: The New Era, you'll find everything you need to create an entire universe of limitless adventure: - A character generation system with over 40 careers and 100 skills, from wilderness survival to starship astrogation. - A fast, simple task and combat system compatible with GDW's Twilight: 2000 and Dark Conspiracy games. - A colorful and innovative vector-based starship combat system which provides rich tactical detail but which can be played without a map. - World generation which lets you design entire universes from stars to planets, and the creatures that live on them. - Detailed starships, high-technology weapons and vehicles.