Note that the problem of 'that ship is a private military force by itself - lets make sure the operator is reliable' is even more of an issue where, for some reason or other, interstellar trade is on a really low level, and therefore privately owned ships are rare.

If you have 200 kdtons a week going along trade routes, a 600 dton frigate refitted for civilian service is just another "secure packet carrier".

If another universe you have three 400 dton ships a week on the same route, then that ship becomes a very rare bird, and therefore presumably of interest to planetary and naval authorities.

This is yet another reason to go with a High Trade imperium IMO.

On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 5:15 AM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) <nobody@simplelists.com> wrote:
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On Sun, 11/9/14, Richard Aiken <raikenclw@gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] Reflections on LBB2v2 versus HGv2 for drives
 To: tml@simplelists.com
 Date: Sunday, November 9, 2014, 1:59 AM

 On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 8:31
 AM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) <nobody@simplelists.com>
 wrote:
 This is
 where the 'rule of cool' comes in.



 It really would be pretty cool to go tooling around in a
 real 'kick-ass' ship.

 (Man, what a STUD!)

 Yep.
 That's the main draw, for sure.
 The guy I'm running designed his
 own ship, using a homebrew design system I created (part CT,
 part Savage Worlds SciFi Toolkit). His PC is essentially Han
 Solo; he even gave him the last name "Solo"
 in-game. The player decided that the ship would be a salvage
 vessel, complete with jump tug rig and mag-grapples. As he
 was brainstorming for a cool ship name, he made the mistake
 of asking me for my thoughts.
 My suggestion of "Millennium
 Vulture" did not go over very well . . .
 :) --
 Richard Aiken
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It occurs to me that such a ship *could* very well be a viable option w/i 'vagr-land', esp if the Capt was a vagr w/ decent charisma.
Considering maint, though, it's probably have to be limited to TL13.
But TL13 can still yield a pretty hot ship!

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