Re: COLONIAL WEAPONS

From: Scott Clinton <grumbling_grognard@hotmail.com> replied to:

> >I think that would be the key question - can one shove
> >the entire industrial process into a container.
> >Obviously if you send your colonists out with only a
> >metal lathe, they won't be able to build/support
> >high-tech electronics.
>
> Which IMHO would be very, very stupid (not to mention less than
economically
> viable considering the cost of getting them there in the first
place).

You're assuming that shipping is expensive.  The facts mentioned in
canon would seem to indicate otherwise.
a) colonies exist on lots of planets;
b) they're worth fighting over; and
c) nations ship brigades and divisions around to do their fighting.
To take an example close to home--I *could* make miniatures myself, if
I wanted to, but it is cheaper and easier for me to buy them from
England and pay the shipping.  That lets me concentrate on producing
whatever it is I produce, instead of trying to sculpt minis this week,
grow my own tea next week, and vulcanize the rubber for my tires on