Re: [GZG] Small thought re: Orbital Assault

On 11/22/05, laserlight <laserlight@quixnet.net> wrote:
> <mega snip>
> > My thought is that these force numbers respresent the huge
> > difficulty of transporting large armed forces across
> > space.
>
> All this seems to make sense, except...if it's so expensive
> to ship 5000 troops and their supplies in 2190, how could
> anyone have been able to afford to plant a colony in 2090?

One way to explain it would be to assume that at the time of initial
colonization,  there was less likelihood of the colony ship being
opposed militarily, so the colony ships didn't have to be warships as
well -- in modern parlance, sort of the difference in cost between a
bulk freighter and a "Gator Freighter" (Assault Carrier).

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