On 12/23/2020 9:41 PM, Jonathan Clark wrote:
> Here in the US there's a series on cable TV called "Selling Yachts".
> Guess what it's about?
> Anyway, it's on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXYMmZ5KjJI
> Might give some ideas about design, features, and so on. They're not
> quite up to the 100 servants mentioned by the OP, but it's a start.
> Also I have no idea whether the show is real, fake, scripted, or fantasy.

If you look at some of the largest megayachts, they can easily hit the
100 crew/service crew level.  When you add security personnel, which
aren't usually on yachts 24/7, the number can go higher.

> My probably over-active mind came up with a couple of extra points:
>
> 1) Security. Anyone rich enough to afford something like this is going
> to be worrying about their security. Especially if they are some sort of
> politically powerful Noble (as seems common enough in the TU). One might
> take this aspect of things into account when designing such a ship.
>
> 2) What's the point? AFAICT there are three reasons to be on such a
> craft:

2D:  It is the ultimate "home turf" if you're traveling to do business. 
Anyone with a credit account can rent a suite of rooms at a 5 star
hotel, but setting down at the starport and requiring a berth for
something in the colonial cruiser size range and costing four figures in
MCr is going to make a statement like no other. Local factor called into
your office on a yacht like that would be like a wannabe gangster being
called in front of the local godfather...

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