[TML] AWAD: Texaco

[Timothy Little]

On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 06:02:06PM -0500, Richard Aiken wrote:
> I know the CT rules literally say "0-No inhabitants," but the next
> step up is "1-Tens of inhabitants."  So I always took the "0" level to
> actually mean "Less than ten inhabitants."

I always took it to mean "no permanent legal inhabitants".  So there
could be hundreds or even thousands, but they're all citizens of some
other system.  They might even be workers who have children born
there, and most of them are not scheduled to leave until they retire
in 30 years, but they're still not counted as "inhabitants" for
official purposes.

A similar alternative I used once was a planet that did actually have
thousands of people permanently living there, but their presence was
illegal.  The world was legally owned and in pre-colonization stages
of development by others - and had been for nearly a century.


- Tim