@EmpyClaw @Jocarnail @TwistedFox With Traveller, everyone starts with links to each other so that they have some reason to work together. Since character gen in Traveller is a game in itself, having everyone do it together helps a lot.

Sometimes I start things in media res, in the middle of some action scene with the adventure already started.

But generally telling the players what they're going to be doing, and asking them to design characters who will want to do that, helps.