Scams and Frauds in the Imperium

[rinku]

Less snarkily, what process are you expecting to supply the lead, or whatever elements you are proposing to use in the transmutation chain to end up with gold?

 

[phavoc]

The Mercenary Forces book, in the section on Ilelish, sets out some basic rules for trade wars between worlds or megacorps etc., so they do exist in the 3i setting.

I haven't looked at it in quite a while - and even longer for the excellent GURPS books.

 

[Sigtrygg]

Trade wars are covered extensively in The Traveller Adventure.

Makers are assembler/disassembler, CAD/CAM, 3D printers, on stroids. They need the correct raw materials to make their stuff, the correct raw materials may even include chips that are better manufactured in dedicated chip manufactories.

Traveller fusion power makes any process that requires lots of energy in the here and now relativley trivial and much lower cost, that included particle accelerator experiments, transmutation and even anti-matter production.

Damper/meson tech allows for manipulation of the forces that build atoms, the application of such technology should also make transmutation relatively trivial.

That said, it may well be much easier to just send a mining drone to an asteroid that contains more gold or whatever element you want. Disassemble and separate the elements in said asteroid and you would reduce the value of elements to less than that of dust.

Such asteroids exist in our solar system, they likely can be found in most systems of similar population stars.

 

[MarcusIII]

That said, it may well be much easier to just send a mining drone to an asteroid that contains more gold or whatever element you want. Disassemble and separate the elements in said asteroid and you would reduce the value of elements to less than that of dust.

Exactly.

 

[actionman]

Traveller fusion power makes any process that requires lots of energy in the here and now relativley trivial and much lower cost, that included particle accelerator experiments, transmutation and even anti-matter production.

Damper/meson tech allows for manipulation of the forces that build atoms, the application of such technology should also make transmutation relatively trivial.

The ultimate recycling technology. Strip the protons from people's trash and reassemble needed elements.

 

[actionman]

Seriously though, imagine unscrupulous player characters landing on low tech planets and stealing people's trash to break down into the elements they need for repairs or whatever they're doing. Ship machine shops might carry mining gear just to cut up rocks so the matter transmutation gear can make elements for the fabricators.

 

[hopsnbaer]

Seriously though, imagine unscrupulous player characters landing on low tech planets and stealing people's trash to break down into the elements they need for repairs or whatever they're doing. Ship machine shops might carry mining gear just to cut up rocks so the matter transmutation gear can make elements for the fabricators.

What? Players taking advantage of lower TL Worlds? I am sure that would never happen.

 

[MarcusIII]

Seriously though, imagine unscrupulous player characters landing on low tech planets and stealing people's trash to break down into the elements they need for repairs or whatever they're doing. Ship machine shops might carry mining gear just to cut up rocks so the matter transmutation gear can make elements for the fabricators.

I'm thinking the equipment to do atomic manipulation is rather large. Like the size of a bay weapon.

 

[MarcusIII]

Just go outside of any polity and find a lower TL planet with human like people and set up shop by dragging a heavy metal asteroid to the planet and use it to buy a little fiefdom. The possibilities are vast when you chuck off the idea that a couple large empires control all of space.

 

[Condottiere]

I prefer the traditional method.

 

[rinku]

Exactly.

How was this not exactly what I was saying?