[TML] Firefly, wait no it is a Subsidized Merchant ship.

[Jerry W Barrington]

On 5/1/08 6:25 PM, "Richard Aiken" <raikenclw at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Bruce Johnson
> <johnson at pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote:
>> Step four: You have a single world government
> 
> So . . . you'd need to come up with a reason why there are balkinized
> worlds still around.  Either 1) the power/profit motive works
> differently among those populations or 2) the Imperial
> politico/econimic culture has since changed radically.

It was set near the end of the Long Night.  Most people assume that when the
planets fall back to lower tech, they balkanize naturally.  Lack of long
distance comms, lack of need for a world government, stuff like that.