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There was a better take on interstellar trade in the Traveller boxed set. And it relied on FTL travel to make any sense.
by PeterCorless 3y ago
There was a better take on interstellar trade in the Traveller boxed set. And it relied on FTL travel to make any sense.
- whartung 3y agoWell in the context of the paper, the fact that the interstellar drive in Traveller manages to avoid the relativistic affects of lightspeed travel makes things much easier.
- PeterCorless 3y agoMuch. To me, the thing that really needs to be more realistically considered is interplanetary (not interstellar) trade. Lightspeed-grade goods and services (media, data) have one "cost," and inorganic atomic-structure goods and services (gaseous/liquid/solid matter) have another "cost", and organic biological matter — especially living matter — will have an even greater cost still. Getting information to Mars will be far cheaper in energy and currency than getting a crate of parts there; and that will be far cheaper still than getting humans or their biological foodstuffs back-and-forth.