Re: [OFFICIAL] Freighters/Merchants question....

JMO, but I think interstellar freighters will be spheres unless there's
a
technological reason they're not practical.  That gives you the most
volume
for the least surface area which means the least amount of construction
materials needed to build it.

Bill

owner-gzg-l@lists.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU wrote on 11/10/2004 05:29:44 PM:

> >
> > I also like the modular look, so long as it's done right.  I don't
think a
> > freighter would look anything like the Valley Forge from Silent
> Running;  too
> > much wasted space.	Instead, I think it would be a big boxy affair
with
as
> > much cargo space crammed onto its hull as possible, kind of a
gigantic
gypsy
> > wagon.