Re: [FT] Size of "Countries" in FT

On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Tony Wilkinson wrote:
>	Which brings me back to the point I was originally trying to
make. The OU,
> in keeping with the character of the Australia/Pacific region today,
will
> be very spread out with some planets being potentially very valuable
if
> they can  be exploited at some time in the future.

that has quite a good ring to it - the ou colonises all those dusty
little
outback worlds which everyone else passes by, and so is scattered across
a
great swath of space, with worlds in the cracks between the other
powers;
many colonies with small populations and relatively little output, but
there a still a lot of worlds in the ou.

>	I do not mean to sound bitter and apologise if I do and for not
making
> myself clearer at the start.

bitter? you don't sound at all bitter, and you were as clear as anyone
could ask you to be. your apology is entirely unwarranted - i demand
that
you retract it!

Tom