RE: Size Class Escalation -- How high in Mass?

> > ...or the contractor would pocket more profits, most
> > likely.  Capital
> > equipment (no pun intended...) doesn't tend to have
> > that much of a price
> > drop, as companies that build stuff like that tend
> > to amortize the cost
> > over the first several units -- so they're taking a
> > loss on a couple, then
> > making decent money on a couple, then making more on
> > the next couple as the ...
>
> Yes, but corruption and amortation of costs would
> happen in all classes of ships, not just the big
> ones. I don't see why big ships would have MORE
> corruption.

More opportunity?

Longer construction time, more workers, larger budgets to hide stuff in,
more political graft involved, etc.