On 6/16/2020 11:41 PM, xxxxxx@gmail.com wrote:
> - a physical, economic, of other restriction on the size of ships built
I would say all of these need to apply. You are not going to have a single
reason why you can't have either a large battle wagon, a swarm of small ships,
or both.
One of the inherent contradictions is ships need to be expensive enough that
governments can't buy a whole swarm of them, but cheap enough that a family can
buy one and operate it as a business on the fringes of the society. You can make
changes to the setting that would allow a family to operate a ship but not own
it. Or maybe they do, after several generations.
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