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It could be that your ground-based neutron weapon follows the path of another energy weapon that essentially clears the majority of the air molecules out of its path. That's been proposed for some energy weapons today - one fires first that is of no threat, it's just clearing the way for the...

I think the closest historical comparison would be either the British Empire, or the Spanish empire - the early sail-only versions of these. The reasons is that time is a factor in economic ripples. Something the size of the Imperium where it takes about a year for news to travel quickly from...

Personally I've always avoided the taxation / fee on trade (unless it's part of the scenario where they are getting hit with extra fees as part of the normal efforts of a GM to help PC's shed excess credits in their possession...). If you go down that path then they can start claiming ship...

Oh, just look at DJT if you wanna see scamming taken to the next level. Nancy and Paul are chumps compared to Don and Junior.

There is an inherent flaw in the taxation concept - that is every world would need to convert it's local currency and economy to Imperial Credits. A poor world (say TL5) economy would be quite small in IMP Cr terms compared to a moderately populated higher TL world (say 12 - the Imperial...

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Thanks for info everyone. Skills are one of those odd things that quickly become too much, too little, too defined, or too undefined. If you look at things from a viewpoint of today, smaller ships have a Pilot, and they do the navigation, the simple fixes, etc on their boats. As ships scale...

Didn't the classic 1-man scout have a person with Pilot-1, Nav-1, Eng-1 as the basic requirement to fly it?

Agreed. For short flights I'd expect zero recycling except maybe for air. Obviously it's capable of doing more, so it's possible. With the ability to dock to a station or land the need for recycling is ultra-low. As far as food production on a ship... it's always seemed to me that except for...

It would be best to have a universal cost associated with life support on a per-person basis. Really doesn't matter if it's a cabin or a seat - the life support requirements are the same per sophont. There is a slight difference in that life support for cabins presupposes that food is...

I've always treated it as you can check your math up to the point of jumping. But, the proof is in the pudding and if somewhere you input some wrong figure or your reference data wasn't fully up to date, you'll pop out not where you thought you were going to pop out. So the dice roll is...

I think this illustrates just how hard it is to gamify this sort of thing. These are all good and valid points being made. We know, that in some cases, thing of today aren't fundamentally different, but other things are. I rebuilt my carburetor on my first car in the 80s. My current one has...

Estimating passenger travel between worlds within a subsector, within a sector, or beyond is gonna be a swag - at best. We cannot really compare modern travel to travel back in 1900 because the modes were very different as was cost. We do know that during the late 1880s and early 1900s - the...

Unfortunately for the authors, the statement is a bit of a logical fallacy. Airline travel is not equivalent to starship travel. The reason for that is that flight times on an aircraft are greatly different (hours instead of days). People don't have cabins on planes (with a few notable and...

All fair points. I had to go look up the spark plug thing. According to the Model T club there are some issues, but it's possible if you can find the right model plug (thread issues are one thing cited, and others state they just use an adapter for mixed results). The issue about the air...