Re: [GZG] [OFFICIAL] New stuff info and New Offer! :-)

So are we looking more at a privateer model during the age of sail.
Basically the major powers have armadas prowling around, but they
cannot really move them around too much because they have to keep the
concentrated power of their fleet as a mailed fist. Instead, they
protect their interests in the far-flung deep space through small
fleets operating mostly independently and strike at their neighbors
through the use of privateers and "pirates."

Chip
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On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Robert Mayberry
<robert.mayberry@gmail.com> wrote:
> They might build ships designed for different requirements. For
> example, lower operating costs would suggest ships with smaller crews,
> fewer consumables and larger operating areas (via longer range and
> higher thrust ratings). For example, a FSE-aligned company might build
> designs without the salvo missiles.
>
> Similarly, the equivalent of an East India company might build
> state-supported colony fleets, consisting of a few pre-fab colony
> ships, a couple couriers, a scout and some military ships. The colony
> ships would be designed to be disassembled for use in building the
> colony. The scout and couriers would stick around for the colonists to
> use. The combat ships would be low-tech, low-maintenance, multi-role
> garrison designs. Maybe throw in an industrial ship to kick start the
> space-based economy.
>
> Actually the more I think of it, the more likely that the fragmented
> tuffleyverse would have semi-independent corporations operating in
> deep space with their own fleets and quite possibly their own designs.
> The great powers have been locked in wars for decades; there are lots
> of independent, minor and piratical powers crawling around. Even in
> the best of times, help is weeks away by courier, if it comes at all.
>
> Flexible manufacturing is in its early stages in our own time, but
> it's already having a profound effect on business strategy.
>
> A smart corp probably has major ship-building facilities in the core
> systems that it uses for government contracting. But they're likely to
> have small facilities in the outer systems also, just because if
> you're going to have a colony you might as well have a couple mining
> ships and some kind of industrial ship to maintain the ships you can't
> have a colony without. And since you've got the infrastructure anyway,
> you might as well build ships in your spare time. Not state of the
> art, perhaps, and not very fast, but I mean why not? Keep in mind that
> if Lockheed's private fleet included any Excalibur class ships, they'd
> have long since been appropriate to fight in one of the Solar Wars (or
> the xeno war). So there's another reason to have different designs
> built in facilities ill-suited for line-of-battle ships and which are
> themselves not really worth alienating your contractors to confiscate.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Oerjan Ariander
> <orjan.ariander1@comhem.se> wrote:
>> F.P.Kiesche III wrote:
>>
>>>Would mega-corps really have a separate set of ship designs? Since
they
>>>build them...wouldn't they just adopt their own production line to
the
>>>occasional "private" vessel?
>>
>> What ships do you think they use for PR purposes, to show off all
those new
>> gadgets the want to sell to their military customers...? :-)
>>
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