[TML] Space Piracy (was: Scientific realism)

[Richard Aiken]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 5:47 AM,  <shadow at shadowgard.com> wrote:
> Unlike junkyards and ship graveyards on earth, the cost of leaving
> the ships there is darn near zero. All you really need is a hab
> module and some security guards.

Well, since payroll and related employee expenses generally are the
largest chunk of anyone's operating budget, I'd say boneyards would
have very few - perhaps even just one - sapient employee on hand.  The
rest of the security (such as it is) would be automated.  A *paranoid*
boneyard (or one in a lawless system) might even mine its property or
put command-detonated charges aboard it's "stock."

-- 
Richard Aiken

"Never insult anyone by accident." Robert A. Heinlein