On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 1:29 AM, Richard Aiken <raikenclw@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 1:21 AM, Ian Whitchurch <ian.whitchurch@gmail.com> wrote:
You're mistaking a tourism business for a cargo business, I think.

But I could actually imagine free/far traders in the TU doing much the same, particularly if each backwater port only gets a few visits per year.

Which is my point: The free/far trader rules do not - and were never meant to - reflect "actual" interstellar trade.

They were meant to reflect the sort of "trade" that Han Solo carries for Jabba The Hutt.

Or (to be thoroughly anachronistic) to reflect crew members like Kaylee . . . sitting in her folding lawn chair by Serenity's open cargo hatch, commenting to a passing Shepherd that he's not looking at the destinations but rather at the ships . . .

Richard Aiken

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