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Yet for whatever reason, reading the original book puts me MORE in mind of those street-level adventures, of it being a varied universe where people get up to all sorts of non-military adventures, than any of what came later, including the big fancy FFG RPG books. Did WEG's Star Wars have that much 'what's it like to live here?' detail? Did Traveller?I think 1987 Rogue Trader is a fantastic book for what it is, it's full of imagination and swagger and is clearly a labour of love, and curry, but it is a lot more focussed on the military aspect than the "what's it like to live here" material that an RPG really needs.
Again, the scenarios/plots in the back of 40K: RT depict a lot of stuff that doesn't involve Space Marines, Inquisitors, or Chaos Cultists... or any of the mainstays of later versions.