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    Vormaerin replied to the thread Mating Airlocks to Cargo Hatches.
    Stacking 3 dimensionally is irrelevant. Someone still has to pay for that to be built. And they are not going to build more than they...
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    Vormaerin replied to the thread Mating Airlocks to Cargo Hatches.
    Ultimately, we are talking about a society with pocket cold fusion, fabricators, advanced robotics, and cheap orbital, interplanetary...
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    Vormaerin replied to the thread Mating Airlocks to Cargo Hatches.
    That's pretty cool. Sometimes I'm a lot more restrictive with what's common knowledge though. I'm always mindful of the old Leviathan...
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    Vormaerin replied to the thread Mating Airlocks to Cargo Hatches.
    That's true, but at the level of abstraction Traveller operates at, it doesn't really matter. Trade's happening and interstellar...
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    Vormaerin replied to the thread Mating Airlocks to Cargo Hatches.
    Again, you can make that entirely reasonable assumption. I do think that makes sense and that is part of why I assume there is a lot of...
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    Vormaerin replied to the thread The claw of the Aslan.
    Aslan in all written sources (not the art, though) are only slightly larger than humans. The given reason for the Dex penalty was the...
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    Vormaerin replied to the thread Mating Airlocks to Cargo Hatches.
    How does goods from Earth get to Mars without a ship? As far as ship size goes, small ships need more crew per bit of cargo because you...
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    Vormaerin replied to the thread Mating Airlocks to Cargo Hatches.
    We would need volumes involved to know whether large craft or small craft are what's needed. As well as whether the ships would be...
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    Vormaerin replied to the thread Mating Airlocks to Cargo Hatches.
    IRL, the bottleneck for shipping does not tend to be containers or ships/planes, it is slots at the sea or airport. Big companies pay to...
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    Vormaerin replied to the thread Mating Airlocks to Cargo Hatches.
    They would be much less than that, because there is no way that the professionals are paying what the PCs pay for berthing, fuel...
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    Vormaerin replied to the thread Mating Airlocks to Cargo Hatches.
    Yeah. The old CT Book 7 had a variety of large and small corporation types. There absolutely should be non jump ships that go from...
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    Vormaerin reacted to Anstett's post in the thread Mating Airlocks to Cargo Hatches with Like Like.
    It does solidify in my mind is the idea that there should be a small shipping corporation operating in almost all of the Mains to handle...
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    Vormaerin replied to the thread Mating Airlocks to Cargo Hatches.
    Our view of the system certainly is distorted by the player facing nature of the rules. Large amounts of bureaucracy and expenses are...
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    Vormaerin replied to the thread The claw of the Aslan.
    No. But I am not suggesting that there be more stats (or less stats). I am suggesting that some things that were done the way they were...
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    Vormaerin replied to the thread The claw of the Aslan.
    Yeah. Same situation as SOC, which used to just be status and could have various effects depending on the situation. Now it's also...
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