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SSSSSSshhhhhhh that may be a clue !!!!!! A clone and a missing crew member. Jinkeys lol

While nothing seems done consistently in the game rules. but if i were setting it up the system baron collects a percentage of gdp 1% or less from the planets governments(tribute) and gets a tariff on imports and exports from the starports. all these fees are already included in the prices in...

I think that should be farfutures.net the .com one is something else entirely. but thanks ill check them out :)

While a time travel game would be a fun thing. I would like to see a new setting for traveler set shortly after the long night , where the 3rd imperium is just starting out. maybe a handful of systems around the capital that held on to sublight travel when just recently the jump drive is...

The Panamax operating cost would include more than just fuel and maintenance also crew compensation (pay, insurances etc.) expected docking fees, and a host of other expenses to operate the vessel as well as the average repair and and preventive maintenance of the ship. So that 4 million a...

depends on just how straight you mean lol if you are above the equator it is moving about 1000 miles an hour . matching that still might not have you fall straight as you would be blown off straight by winds in the atmosphere, even above the poles with no atmosphere you would fall a little...

By saying no orbital velocity , its speed would be the same orbital speed as a person jumping out of an airplane , or the same speed as a rock thrown upward as it just begins to fall, its not a fast firm number ,after all someone standing on the surface at the equator circles the earth once...

that's why i specified a ship that had canceled its orbital velocity and hovering above the planet using thrusters, so where geo orbit came from I'm not sure, if I somehow implied that it had canceled its orbital velocity and was still orbiting , I apologize assuming earth like planet with the...

Using the ISS as an example earths gravity at that altitude is still .89g so if grav belts use contra grav like the air rafts is should be possible, but the ISS is moving at roughly 17k mph orbital velocity to avoid falling down, so the question is could it cancel the orbital speed before the...

If he separates from a space ship that has canceled its orbital velocity, then it would be like an extended halo jump and all he would need is a space suit ( to breath) and a parachute, as he has no velocity to shed. If leaving a space station in orbit he would need to loose all the orbital...

Consider the "bank" that would make a loan to a group of pirates to buy a Corsair in the first place. Consider what a profoundly BAD idea it would be to default on a loan from such a "bank". A regular bank would just take your money or repo your starship -- these guys would break your legs in...

language is terrible at describing this photons do not have a "rest mass" but they do have energy, and energy will behave as if it were mass as described by the equation E=M*C squared divide both sides by C squared to get M = E / C squared . So a given amount of energy will behave exactly as...

What is a credit worth? A cubic meter of gold is worth about $1 billion usd, so a dton would be worth $14 billion usd, and worth 50k credits per dton. Making the exchange rate 1 credit to 280k usd using a gold standard. hopefully we can find other things to barter for credits. A...

lol One is a genius, The others ..... a human :)

Perhaps the issue with automatic ships is more of a legal issue The imperium allows salvage claims, any ship without a legally recognized intelligence to claim ownership, might be able to be boarded and deemed abandoned and derelict . Thus unless the imperium accepts AI as a legal person...