The RPG Stars Without Number is an OSR take on sandbox style space adventure in the style of Traveler. One of the conceits of the setting is that there was a large space empire that was run from Earth, but the technology that made that possible collapsed. This has the benefit of enabling freewheeling adventuring without worrying about what the big space empires had to say, as well as ensuring that most of the worlds you visit will have people that are similar enough to you that you can deal with them.
A later Sine Nomine game called Other Dust homages Gamma World just as Stars Without Number homages Traveler. But if you're familiar with SWN, you would realize that the default setting of Other Dust is actually the Earth of the SWN universe, isolated from the rest of the galaxy.
Sine Nomine then went back and did their own take on fantasy roleplaying with a game called Worlds Without Number. WWN's setting is called Latter Earth and if you're familiar with Other Dust, you can see that Latter Earth is actually the far future of the Earth as described in Other Dust.
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