Whe D&D first came out (ya I am that old) a space based game
also came out called traveler.
It was a skill driven Space based game
it had a lot of potential..I am surprised nobody has picked up on it
IF your saying..what game? right now...you would have to
hit e-bay to find the original books (came with 3) there was about
a dozen expansion books...sound familiar?
games that expanded in many, many books were popular games
I would also say rolemaster...but that is already taken...going to be an
online game, last I heard