Re: [GZG] FTverse colinies

At 10:36 AM -0400 5/4/08, Robert Mayberry wrote:
>
>* Do you make allowances for differing start dates for interstellar
>expansion? I'm a business student by trade, but your numbers look
>roughly like the outcome of a compound interest expansion. Time
>becomes more important than income in those scenarios, so I'm
>wondering if that applies to population growth, too. If that is the
>case, then the question of how the NI competes efficiently with the IF
>is pretty easy to answer: the NI's early work developing FTL meant
>they were early in the space race. The IF, whether for cultural,
>political, strategic, industrial or technological reasons, got into
>the space game late.

And probably with a few more fits and starts and 
mistakes in their development. Kind of sets 
things back if you dump a significant portion of 
your GDP into a colony ship and it goes boom as 
it leaves orbit and tries to activate it's FTL 
drive. You can bet that the NI Mossad types will 
continue to hamstring the IF program in places 
where "inshallah..." doesn't do enough.

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