Ship sales

Thoughts:

1) One thing no one has manufactured: Manufacture of a design by
license.
This isn't really covered AFAIK in the tuffleyverse but isn't impossible
(nor in some cases even uncommon). We could well see the ESU license its
smaller ships (DD or smaller) to other nations - and those ships would
then
be built in the smaller nations with some national modifications (often
to
try to replace systems the ESU didn't think they should have). This
creates
a much larger pool of available designs and the LAST thing the
Tuffleyverse
should become is restrictive.

2) Keep in mind FB1 and FB2 constitute only a portion of the respective
fleets. When me and Indy discussed it, we figured maybe 1/2 to 1/3rd of
the
actual fleets IIRC. Now, if they constituted a third, the remaining
2/3rds
are probably older designs (not all, but most). Some are probably just
the
classes we don't see represented (provisioners, SDBs, monitors, etc).
The
FBs show *representative samples*. So, this being the case, many of
these
older designs may have been sold in much larger numbers or licensed out
(see
1 above) as compared to the newer designs. 

Just something to ponder.

Thomas Barclay
Software Specialist 
Defence Systems
xwave solutions
www.xwavesolutions.com
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