[gurps] Tinker's Starship?

[Troy Guffey]

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Wyrm wrote:
> Exactly, but mass is not lost by the creation of products in this
> case. A nano factory should produce no waste to dump out of the
> side of the ship. Thus (using a current example) making laptop
> computers a more profitable proposition than making desktop
> computers. As you
> will have more laptops stored in the same amount of cargo space.
> 
> Of course this does not take into account the time to produce a
> given product. Using travel time for building slow (profitable)
> products will make your layovers shorter. More trips, more profit.


This is effectively "speculative cargo".  Of course, if you guess
*wrong* you can always recycle the wrong stuff, and lost only some
energy, and the sunk time of the trip.

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