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I'm planning on going. Looking forward to being there.

Don't worry, I just thought it a good quote ;-) Obviously Nelson couldn't have planned for the emergence of far future carrier flagships but if he had I'm sure he would have been pretty good at commanding them.

"No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of an enemy.”

I like the physical design of the Imperial Navy book with the shiny cover so if it is like that this is a win.

It's hard to introduce a new player to Charted Space. The solution? Don't. The group doesn't need to know what the order of battle was in some Fourth Frontier War skirmish unless it's absolutely relevant. I think it's viable to come up with an introduction that doesn't take anything more than...

Nice looking books. Interested in seeing how it turns out.

Just wanted to share a sad photo I took earlier at my nearby hobby shop that reminded me of this thread. Spot the traveller book. What's wild is that Shield Maidens and Paranoia are there but the Explorers Edition is next to invisible. Maybe just unlucky, but there needs to be a proper box...

One persons tax is another persons scam maybe?

I am not saying taxation governs currency issuance, I am saying it governs the currency in circulation. Again, in a hypothetical situation where the US did not exist anymore, who would use dollars? See Fallout as an example. As soon as any polity develops enough of a power base to start...

That view is too simplistic. If you offer someone a paid off ship, they would have their own "value" of what that might be worth that might not involve credits. What of other interstellar states with their own currencies? Ubiquity by itself means little. Also, how does the Imperium regulate the...

Yep. Again, something with Roman parallels: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulla%27s_proscription

"The Pact of Misenum was a treaty to end the naval blockade of the Italian Peninsula during the war between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey. Signed in 39 BC, the triumvirs allowed Sextus Pompeius to retain his control of Sicily and Sardinia and also granted him control of Corsica and...

I should note as well, this doesn't factor in unscrupulous tax collectors and local nobility (or the financial/economic equivalent of funny ore in hills causing problems). One of the major threats is obviously people taking too much out of local and regional monetary supply and damaging the...

I haven’t read the entire thread yet, so I may be repeating some earlier points, but I’ve given this topic some thought in the past and here’s my take. In an economy backed by fiat-currency, the value of money is based primarily on the stability and authority of the issuing state rather than on...