Re: Freighter thoughts

On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 04:56:41 -0700 (PDT) John Atkinson
<johnmatkinson@yahoo.com> writes:
>
>--- apter@bellsouth.net wrote:
>
>> or bulk frighter gets it makes an FTL frighter
>> uneconmical for any sort of low value goods as the
>> ship is going to have to make something like 100
>> trips to pay itself off. By this time its likly to
>> have broken down. So if you have intersteller trade
>> it must be all non perishable high value goods.
>
>I have difficulty imagining what low value goods you
>couldn't get/make with the resources of a solar system
>to hand.  
>
>John
>

High value is relative.

To a world like SOL shipping in Tractors from Tyranius IV might be
unprofitable but shipping them to an Agricultural world with no industry
(or heavy manufacturing at least) either by design or 'youth' of the
colony might make them high value.  If your PSB allows 'stasis fields'
then fruit not grown locally might be a high value V.I.P. item
[Pineapples for the O.U. ambassador to the desert covered planet of
Dirtball II] or single source items like a sample of a liquid medicine
from a local native plant (or the plant itself.)

Gracias,
Glenn

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