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    rinku replied to the thread Minor Races incl. Humans.
    Oh, a bit of salt, some sauce...
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    rinku replied to the thread Mertactor.
    I checked the CT through TNE sources, but none of them really have much about Mertactor except that it's the subsector capital. CT UWP...
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    rinku replied to the thread Mating Airlocks to Cargo Hatches.
    One thought is that costs are relative, and total. That is, the cheapest shipping containers for a given cargo's TOTAL journey will...
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    rinku replied to the thread Beltstrike.
    Indeed. But what happens in the formation of one system is likely to happen in others - once you have a truly star spanning setting with...
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    rinku replied to the thread Minor Races incl. Humans.
    "There's Geonee and Zhodani and Vilani and Answerin..."
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    rinku reacted to CordwainerFish's post in the thread Minor Races incl. Humans with Like Like.
    Ending, I trust, with "These are the only ones of which the news has come to Hahvahd / And there may be many others but they haven't...
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    rinku replied to the thread Near Future Traveller.
    I'd waive that for a planetoid station. The gravitic requirement makes sense if it's zooming around under high thrust, but parking a big...
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    rinku replied to the thread Mertactor.
    First thing is to check the dates, they could describe different eras. But Wiki draws from many different editions and it may have only...
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    rinku replied to the thread Beltstrike.
    Probably quite variable. You also have places like Glisten that are industrial hubs in their own right. It's not likely there are many...
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    rinku replied to the thread Beltstrike.
    It would have to be a concentration of something typically found in trace amounts. Radioactives are always a good fallback - maybe left...
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    rinku replied to the thread Mating Airlocks to Cargo Hatches.
    Honestly, it's probably more convenient to leave all sections of the ship pressurised, just from an engineering point of view. If you...
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    rinku replied to the thread High Guard across the TLs.
    Specialist Computers as presented in CRB seem to me to be more like the game console concept. Optimised at one role to reduce costs. It...
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    rinku replied to the thread Beltstrike.
    It's a lot simpler where there's records of court proceedings and the rap sheet, as there are for roughly a third of my immigrant...
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    rinku reacted to ResslynHalvik's post in the thread Beltstrike with Like Like.
    A couple of decades back I was doing some IT requirements management work in Paris. The company official language was English, and most...
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    rinku replied to the thread Beltstrike.
    Maybe not universal translators, but we've reached ubiquitous ones. It's already a chat feature to click a twisty and get a decent...
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