[TML] TL and Ports (was: jump weapons)

[Jerry W Barrington]

On 8/12/08 5:32 PM, "Greg Nokes" <tsykoduk at gmail.com> wrote:

> This has always been an issue with me. If I lived in OTU, I would
> build shops at every TL 10 or less class A/B/C starport with a basic
> stock of repair parts and a local tech or two trained up to TL15.
> 
> Seems to me that you would make a killing first time a merchant
> straggled in with some minor damage.

It's a nice idea, but you're talking about stocking starship innards of
several levels of technology, in variations (different jump ratings,
etc...).  That's a *lot* of investment.  At *each* such starport.  To do
that, you're already a megacorp.  :)