Re: Freighter thoughts

At 6:41 AM -0500 4/18/04, <warbeads@juno.com> wrote:
>To a world like SOL shipping in Tractors from Tyranius IV might be
>unprofitable but shipping them to an Agricultural world with no
industry
>(or heavy manufacturing at least) either by design or 'youth' of the
>colony might make them high value.  If your PSB allows 'stasis fields'
>then fruit not grown locally might be a high value V.I.P. item
>[Pineapples for the O.U. ambassador to the desert covered planet of
>Dirtball II] or single source items like a sample of a liquid medicine
>from a local native plant (or the plant itself.)

Well, in the early part of the 20th century, it 
was profitable enough to design ships to 
transport bananas. Refrigerated and fast. Some 
were speedy enough to convert to ersatz warships 
(ie the Emden).
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