Back in the good old days, anyone could write Traveller products and slap the Traveller logo onto the cover. Then that liberal license was withdrawn and replaced by a much more restrictive less profitable license. That left a bunch of RPG authors wondering what to do with their creativity.
In jumps Jason "Flynn" Kemp in 2016, who took the existing Traveller SRD and generated a new SRD under the OGL and named it "Cepheus Engine".
Lots of ex-Traveller authors jumped onto Cepheus Engine and started writing under its easy to follow and liberated license.
In 2017 Samarden Press spruced up the Cepheus SRD and produced a product named "Cepheus Engine" which clarified, en-nice-ified it, making a pleasant to read PDF.
In 2021 Stellagram Publishing brought out "Cepheus Deluxe" which was an evolution on the original SRD rules. It made changes to system and character generation (including character "traits"), along with some other changes to the rules, and added in a pile or artwork.
The SRD, Samarden, and Stellagram versions are all compatible, and pretty much any product written for them or Traveller will be compatible with all of them.
Of course all this time authors were throwing out adventures, ship books, background books and so on, and then people started bringing out rules books based on Cepheus Engine in different genres. A couple of notables being Cepheus Modern for all your modern tactical battles, an Sword of Cepheus for those fancying a bit of fantasy sword play. We've even got SOLO for people who want to play with themselves.
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