[TML] [Merchant Shipping] Some ideas I came up with to make merchant shipping more interesing

[Tom B]

>
>
> And as I've said in the past, with the sorts of power plants avaible
> in Traveller, colonies are apt to start out with each "house" or
> small cluster of them generating their own power and then grow a
> power grid to share excess power.
>
> --
> Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
> shadow at shadowgard dot com
>

Maybe and maybe not.

There are still scale efficiencies. There are also issues of how a colony
gets started. If funded by a massive government project, I can well see it
having massive centralized power. After all, the colony will probably
initially be arrayed around the spaceport and any limited centers of
political and economic power which probably all exist in one community.
Farms and individual small villages may exist and use microgeneration, but
the cities will still use the larger, more efficient central form in this
scenario.

A lot has to do with the culture and nature of the way the colony was
established I think.


-- 
"Now, I go to spread happiness to the rest of the station. It is a terrible
responsibility but I have learned to live with it."
Londo, A Voice in the Wilderness, Part I

"To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like
administering medicine to the dead." -- Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine