Cepheus Engine vs The Third Imperium

As I understand it the rules are okay to use but not any of the setting, so crunch not fluff. Which makes sense the whole story of the 3I is an amazing amount of creative content and should generate revenue for those who wrote it. It is pretty amazing and generous of FFE to allow the systems that underpin how that was created to be used freely. So if I am not adapting the 3I what am I intending to do?

My original goal was to go through Starter Traveller (which had little 3I inside it) and see how I could view the rules to create the fluff for a campaign that could still use all the CT stuff available. That is still my goal although it is a little more unfocused now.

1. Overall I want to end up with a huge area dominated by an interstellar government that controls very little of the day to day life of it's citizens.

2. There needs to be some other interstellar polities at odds with the main government.

3. Psionics are bad in the view of the average person.

4. A reason for a Noble social class.

5. A reason why people would have some loyalty to the off handed Empire but still be willing to break laws.

6. A reason why there isn't a uniform distribution of technology throughout the Empire.

Some things had occurred to me during the ST posts that I liked and will keep. I like the idea of a mandatory 4 year service for every citizen as a reason there is some sense of belonging and to explain the random generation of skills. I have to go through the new careers available in Cepheus and see how to adapt this idea to them. The separation games to explain the mustering out system and by extension a societal acceptance of chance dictating your fate (also adds to the willingness to chance breaking the law). Everyone having their own Noble akin to a local representative which I hinted at but didn't flesh out as I hadn't got to the Noble career yet. This sets up the idea of a parallel government on every world.

I will be going through the Cepheus SRD in sections like I did with ST and hopefully life will leave me alone to do it :).