An other possible motivation for such a vehicle, could be a mining, prison, or whatever world in a system that does not have more then TL6. Having locally produced spareparts, and qualified local mechanics might be enough to justify it's production.
Such operations do justify, that corporations, with access to High Tech spend R&D resources on reducing the amount of high tech spare parts an outpost needs.
So in Traveller you will have to expect technologies equivalent to crank powered cell phones and computers, that have been developed for people in regions, where access to electricity is spotty, but also in the department of life support.
And once the technology is readily available, lower tech colonies in systems, with only hostile planets, start to become viable.
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