None of the stuff listed are vaguely worth dealing with the security problems of being in the outsystem, and outside the range of friendly support.

This is mostly about the economics - and it's cheaper to go one extra jump to a biosphere to get your water, nitrogen and whatnot than to haul in enough guns to secure you mining operation.

Remember, transport in trav costs around (Cr25 plus Cr50 per parsec) per ton, and maybe a twentieth of that to get into orbit.


On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 1:00 AM, <shadow@shadowgard.com> wrote:
On 8 Dec 2014 at 0:25, Bill Rutherford wrote:

> Flammable and toxic - a good combination to have aboard ship... ;-)

Don't forget corrosive!

> Leonard et al,
>
> Seriously, to all who've replied, this is one of the GREAT things
> about the TML - the body of Traveller players who *think* about this
> stuff and take the time to reply.

Heck, the stuff about asteroid (and planetismal) formation comes from
discussions *many* years ago here on the TML. Plus some reading and
articles.

I keep meaning to take the time to mine thru the archives and collect
stuff into reference materials to put up on the web.


--
Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
shadow at shadowgard dot com


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