Finding transport David Shaw (06 May 2015 16:23 UTC)
Re: [TML] Finding transport Richard Aiken (06 May 2015 17:02 UTC)
Re: [TML] Finding transport Richard Aiken (06 May 2015 17:15 UTC)
Re: [TML] Finding transport Ethan McKinney (06 May 2015 17:31 UTC)
Re: [TML] Finding transport Thomas Jones-Low (06 May 2015 17:42 UTC)
Re: [TML] Finding transport Ethan McKinney (06 May 2015 18:12 UTC)
Re: [TML] Finding transport Richard Aiken (06 May 2015 18:57 UTC)
Re: [TML] Finding transport Bruce Johnson (06 May 2015 20:22 UTC)
Re: [TML] Finding transport Craig Berry (06 May 2015 20:33 UTC)
Re: [TML] Finding transport sjard (06 May 2015 20:48 UTC)
Re: [TML] Finding transport Craig Berry (06 May 2015 20:56 UTC)
Re: [TML] Finding transport Thomas Jones-Low (06 May 2015 21:19 UTC)
Re: [TML] Finding transport Craig Berry (06 May 2015 21:24 UTC)
Re: [TML] Finding transport Thomas Jones-Low (06 May 2015 21:33 UTC)
Re: [TML] Finding transport Craig Berry (06 May 2015 21:37 UTC)
Re: [TML] Finding transport Kelly St. Clair (06 May 2015 22:02 UTC)
Re: [TML] Finding transport Craig Berry (06 May 2015 22:06 UTC)
Re: [TML] Finding transport Phil Pugliese (07 May 2015 00:38 UTC)
Re: [TML] Finding transport Phil Pugliese (07 May 2015 00:31 UTC)
Re: [TML] Finding transport kaladorn@xxxxxx (15 Apr 2020 04:09 UTC)
Re: [TML] Finding transport kaladorn@xxxxxx (15 Apr 2020 04:04 UTC)
Re: [TML] Finding transport kaladorn@xxxxxx (15 Apr 2020 03:53 UTC)
Re: [TML] Finding transport shadow@xxxxxx (16 Apr 2020 21:42 UTC)
Re: [TML] Finding transport Phil Pugliese (07 May 2015 00:18 UTC)
Re: [TML] Finding transport Bruce Johnson (07 May 2015 14:06 UTC)
Re: [TML] Finding transport Phil Pugliese (07 May 2015 16:52 UTC)
Re: [TML] Finding transport Craig Berry (07 May 2015 16:58 UTC)
Re: [TML] Finding transport Phil Pugliese (07 May 2015 17:06 UTC)
Re: [TML] Finding transport Richard Aiken (08 May 2015 00:11 UTC)
Re: [TML] Finding transport Craig Berry (08 May 2015 00:48 UTC)
Re: [TML] Finding transport Richard Aiken (08 May 2015 01:13 UTC)
Re: [TML] Finding transport Bruce Johnson (08 May 2015 15:34 UTC)
Re: [TML] Finding transport Phil Pugliese (08 May 2015 16:23 UTC)
Re: [TML] Finding transport Richard Aiken (09 May 2015 07:27 UTC)
Re: [TML] Finding transport Phil Pugliese (09 May 2015 10:48 UTC)
Re: [TML] Finding transport kaladorn@xxxxxx (15 Apr 2020 04:33 UTC)
Re: [TML] Finding transport Phil Pugliese (15 Apr 2020 23:33 UTC)
Re: [TML] Finding transport Kenneth Barns (16 Apr 2020 23:17 UTC)
Re: [TML] Finding transport Timothy Collinson (17 Apr 2020 14:36 UTC)
Re: [TML] Finding transport Kenneth Barns (18 Apr 2020 03:18 UTC)
Re: [TML] Finding transport Timothy Collinson (18 Apr 2020 04:53 UTC)
Re: [TML] Finding transport Bruce Johnson (18 Apr 2020 17:41 UTC)
Re: [TML] Finding transport Kenneth Barns (19 Apr 2020 02:02 UTC)
Re: [TML] Finding transport Richard Aiken (21 Apr 2020 19:42 UTC)
Re: [TML] Finding transport kaladorn@xxxxxx (24 Apr 2020 07:12 UTC)
Re: [TML] Finding transport Phil Pugliese (24 Apr 2020 18:19 UTC)
Re: [TML] Finding transport kaladorn@xxxxxx (15 Apr 2020 04:25 UTC)
Re: [TML] Finding transport Phil Pugliese (08 May 2015 16:04 UTC)
Re: [TML] Finding transport Phil Pugliese (06 May 2015 23:58 UTC)
Re: [TML] Finding transport Craig Berry (07 May 2015 00:08 UTC)
Re: [TML] Finding transport Phil Pugliese (07 May 2015 00:51 UTC)
Re: [TML] Finding transport Richard Aiken (07 May 2015 07:07 UTC)
TL, Trade and You [WAS: Re: [TML] Finding transport] Greg Nokes (07 May 2015 15:22 UTC)
Re: TL, Trade and You [WAS: Re: [TML] Finding transport] shadow@xxxxxx (07 May 2015 23:49 UTC)
Re: TL, Trade and You [WAS: Re: [TML] Finding transport] Phil Pugliese (08 May 2015 15:55 UTC)
Re: TL, Trade and You [WAS: Re: [TML] Finding transport] Richard Aiken (08 May 2015 00:04 UTC)
Re: TL, Trade and You [WAS: Re: [TML] Finding transport] Phil Pugliese (08 May 2015 15:59 UTC)
Re: [TML] Finding transport Phil Pugliese (07 May 2015 15:39 UTC)

Re: [TML] Finding transport Bruce Johnson 07 May 2015 14:05 UTC

> On May 6, 2015, at 5:18 PM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:
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> Also, there's the old, old canon that the OTU represents the 'Age of Sail' & NOT the post-container cargo ship 20th century.
> (A point that I suspect DGP was NOT aware of)

actually no. The OTU is like the ‘Age of Sail’ only insofar as communications are limited to the speed of physical travel.This has important implications about the structure of governance, finance, and to a greater or lesser extent society, but it doesn’t actually affect the scale of the economy or interstellar trade.

Again, when all interstellar trade is being carried on a relative handful of tiny ships, the Imperium has no reason to exist, nor the tax base to pay for itself. Why join (and pay for) the Imperium if you could do without interstellar trade, which amounts to a vanishingly small portion of the entire economy?

As for the ‘each planetary system has essentially infinite resources’ I beg to differ.

By the time of the OTU (in any era) large swaths of the Imperium has been home to a highly advanced industrial civilization for over ten thousand years. They’ve been reduced to mining their landfills and tailings piles for a long, long time.

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Bruce Johnson

"Wherever you go, there you are." B. Banzai, PhD