Re: [TML] Discussion Topic: Ansible Models (non 3I) Jeff Zeitlin 05 Oct 2019 04:06 UTC
On Sat, 5 Oct 2019 16:56:05 +1300, Rupert Boleyn <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote: >Or it's fast, and cheap per-message, but still requires a huge (and >fairly expensive) transceiver station, too big to be placed in any but >the biggest ship, too expensive for a backwater world to pay for itself. >Thus only major fleet flagships will have FTL comms, and only wealthy >worlds and those poorer worlds that are in strategic locations >(especially if the system has limited range, so you need relays). As >with the railways in the US, worlds will lobby to be the location of a >relay station, as those on the network will flourish, while those >off-net will tend to languish. ...and this paragraph more-or-less summarizes a good chunk of my article on Ansibles in Traveller (URL earlier in thread). :) ®Traveller is a registered trademark of Far Future Enterprises, 1977-2018. Use of the trademark in this notice and in the referenced materials is not intended to infringe or devalue the trademark. -- Jeff Zeitlin, Editor Freelance Traveller The Electronic Fan-Supported Traveller® Resource xxxxxx@freelancetraveller.com http://www.freelancetraveller.com Freelance Traveller extends its thanks to the following enterprises for hosting services: onCloud/CyberWeb Enterprises (http://www.oncloud.io) The Traveller Downport (http://www.downport.com)