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In 2300 can you only buy new starships in the Core, or do some of the colonies produce new starships and which ones? Likewise do any of the colonies have a thriving market in used starships and which ones?
There are over a thousand billionaires in the world. According to Capegemini and Merrill Lynch, there are 10's of millions of people with investable assets of $1 million or more. I find more than one in a hundred (based on world population) people with millions to invest a bit high. Maybe I'm associating with the wrong people.aiglos63 said:How do they finance those kinds of purchases?
Companys, even Megacorps can be private or public. Toys R Us, Cumberland Farms, WaWa, Hilton, Kingston, Perdue, Levi's and so on are private companies. Not sure exactly what the point is when aiglos63 and rgrove0172 use the term. You'd have to clarify for my understanding. Individuals would probably not purchase a ship, other than one for pleasure or personal use, without insulating themselves to personal liability by making the purchase through a private or public company.aiglos63 said:Transports are mostly in private hands and there are hundreds of them.
rgrove0172 said:I dont see many individuals owning one out of pocket. It just doesnt 'feel' very 2300.
Captain Jonah said:The mad science cyborg was Charles Dance.
Good funny film and fairly Traveller (2300) with its lack of gravity on the ships and general tech.
Re private ownership of starships.
The background is that Tantalum is insanely rare and needs to be recycled so old ship drives are scrapped. However we also have nations with undeclared but large reserves of the stuff, it is common enough to be thrown away in missiles and it is used in such tiny amounts in a stutterwarp drive that the drives are dirt cheap to buy.
A stutterwarp drive for a small player ships costs about as much as a pair of cheap lasers. It is the hull that costs the money and that is the item most likely to be refurbished and upgraded and still in use a 100 years later. If you drop streamlining, go for a pure space design, a distributed hull and go for slow and steady it is easy to build a 200Dton player ship for under 10Mlv.
This is a new build, buying an old hull and putting in a new drive and electronics or power plant can bring in a 300-400Dton ship for the same price. Relative to the income levels starships are dirt cheap in comparison to Traveller. It is the interface craft that are costly to own and run, ships that operate on the shelf or go inter system are cheap and plentiful.
It is, of course, up to each ref as to how many non nation state owned ships there are around. In my verse there are thousands of them and aside from warships which are ALL state owned 90%+ of all civilian shipping is company owned. The libertine traders are family companies, the crew are the family and all hold shares in the company that is the ship.