[gurps] [VEHICLE] of the week 775 - Rangent Downport

[David Scheidt]

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Roger Burton West <roger at firedrake.org>wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 08:06:23PM +0200, Onno Meyer wrote:
> >It makes no sense from a strictly economic viewpoint. It is a
> >deliberate attempt to make the planetary settlement viable at
> >the expense of the profits of the belters and merchants.
>
> I must confess I can't see this being viable unless you have extremely
> cheap orbital lifters. What's the technology base of the local space
> fleet?
>
> (Otherwise the costs are going to real things - fuel, amortising the
> lifters, and so on, which don't necessarily help the surface
> settlement at all...)
>
>
It's traveller, so things are transported by magic.  But the cost of
loading, unloading, and reloading is real, even in traveler.

-- 
David Scheidt
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