Thank you. What rebellion are you referring to? Is that connected with the Assassination of Strephon?

Thank you, I was wondering whether the Empress Wave was included in the detested canon.

And thanks for characterising why: the “catastrophic change” makes for impressive reading, and feels like the kind of big deal that an epic saga will deal with; but, as you say, it robs the individual characters (who, in Traveller, tend not to be ultra-powerful but more quotidian) of agency, with a transformation of the setting they can't do anything about.

Do I gather correctly that the Interstellar Wars canon (ignoring the RPG system) is better accepted by the community?

The development of the Third Imperium, or more recently Charted Space, literally began the concept of a setting arc in RPGs. When Traveller was first written in the 70s, the idea of a cohesive setting for an RPG hadn't been invented. The Third Imperium Was cobbled together after the release of Star Wars because everyone thought there should be a big "capital E" empire. Even the idea of different alien species was something that came up later on in the setting as it developed.

The article there does not go much into this, but I'm reminded that many people really disliked the later timeline development of the Traveller setting; and the Interstellar Wars timeline was welcome because it was set earlier, and the Mongoose reboot takes the timeline in a different direction. So I've gathered, anyway.

Can anyone point me to contemporary discussions of why the Traveller canonical timeline was so unpopular?

Today's crop of heavily-promoted image-generation models and text-generation models are both trained on huge swaths of the public internet as well as private sources; this has been done without the consent of the vast majority of authors and artists of those works. Once fed into the model during training, there is no way to retract a work from the resulting model.

Both the training of models, and the routine usage of them, consume unethically large amounts of electricity (and water consumed for cooling).

People who use those models to generate text or images, and then post the results, are either unaware of the ethical abuses, or don't care enough to stop. Yes, I support a blanket ban on posting such content here.