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

[Bruce Johnson]

On May 1, 2008, at 3:25 PM, Richard Aiken 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.

1500 years later? Not hard at all! This was during the mercantilist  
expansion of the early Imperium, and truthfully, this sort of thing  
probably didn't last more than a 100 years or so..

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Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
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