Something I always wondered about Jamison

So way back in the first Elite, Jamison is the commander you play, however I have always wondered if that name was an homage or reference to the even older pen/paper RPG game Traveller, where in the original books you see an example of a starting character called Alexander Lascelles Jamison, who you read on about as a sort of tutorial about the game. Anyone else ever make this perhaps erroneous connection as well or know if it was an inspiration?

 
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Yaffle

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Yes, it's been mentioned before, but I don't think it's been 'officially' confirmed that Traveller was the inspiration for the name.

(Now I want to go and dig my rulebooks out)
 
Well it's been a long time for me, well over 30 years but I remember at least 1 or 2 characters with a few B's and C's dying before mustering out... I can't think of any other game that had that 'feature' either.
 
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