Can't have the trades-sophonts and the monied classes mixing. It's not done, you know! 

Had a friend in tech who was from France. His dad was the mayor of a small town (but bigger than a village). I asked him why he came to Canada: "I can't stand the French."

Nonplussed, I said "You are French?"  

He then related the story of having a tiler come to his house in the town and do some tiling in the entry hall. It was later in the day when the tiler finished, so my friend ran him home and decided he owed the tiler an meal so they stopped at a local pub and ate supper. The weekend after, he ran into some of his father's well-to-do friends and got reproved for having 'fraternizing with the working classes'. My friend was so fed up with the cultural attitude of the well-to-do towards anyone else that he packed up and moved to Canada (sold his house, the whole 9 yards). Now, that would have been probably in the late 1960s or early 1970s and that may have been just his small part of France, but it left him with an abiding dislike of class prejudices. 

ObTrav: This kind of issue might drive a scion of a noble house to depart the 'civilized' core for the 'uncivilized' (but more free and less bound by social prejudices) frontiers (a.k.a. travelling!). 

I do like the 'grav stair'.... that's a great visual. Did you imagine a solid metal glitzy stair or just a 'step on air' sort of stair surface?

TomB

On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 5:27 AM Timothy Collinson - timothy.collinson at port.ac.uk (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:

 

Kaladorn wrote:

>One thing I find interesting in traveller deckplans (yeah, tangent): I see ladders and lifts.

>I've NEVER seen anyone use a simple ramp to run between levels like the Andromeda does here and there.

 



I must admit I've not used a ramp.

I *did* put in a natty spiral staircase on my "Downton Abbey" in space luxury yacht for my dilettante nobles.  But they wouldn't have to actually *step* up or down - it was high enough TL that standing on a tread took them to the deck up up or down.  Of course, cargo wouldn't be going that way.  There were cargo doors entirely separate to the nobles' living area.  Of course.

I really ought to either write part 3 or just publish what I've got.  It's about 10th in the queue however.

tc


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