On 19Aug2020 2138, Thomas Jones-Low wrote:.
>
>
> GURPS Traveller:Starports, and
> https://wiki.travellerrpg.com/Starport have answers to a great
> many questions.
>
> The SPA determines the classification of the ports within the Imperium
> and along the border where they run the ports. Outside the imperium
> the job falls on the IISS, who has a much harder time. For example,
> the Aslan clan may have a shipyard in the port, but you as an outsider
> do not have access. Is that an Class A or a Class D?
Type D in my opinion - the UWP has always tended to show what a world
presents to travellers. Also, /Trillion Credit Squadron/ let worlds
build ships for their local government no matter than starport type.
Therefore, the starport type is what's available to normal citizens
travelling through, and not what a local government, Imperial agency, or
a megacorp might have access to (which can explain some of those high
TL, high pop worlds with surprisingly shoddy ports).

Mind you, in TNE this doesn't really work because it's a fundamental
conceit that worlds that can build or even repair ships (and especially
jump drives) are few and far between.

--
Rupert Boleyn <xxxxxx@gmail.com>