Hello Jonathan Clark,

>
> 2) What's the point? AFAICT there are three reasons to be on such a craft:
>
> 2A) Habitation
>
> If you're going to live on a luxury spaceship (or, RL, water) vessel, then what's
> the point? It would be a lot cheaper to buy a house somewhere and live there,
> plus you don't have to worry about sinking / hull puncture / piracy / system
> failure / whatever. Also it's much easier to resupply if you're on a planet.
> (You could consider that a physical presence on a planet might be *less*
> secure than being on a spaceship, so you could run with that idea.)

A house has problems such as being in an area prone to flooding, tornadoes/hurricanes/typhoons and other acts of nature. The electrical, plumbing, heating/cooling systems can fail. The structure of the house like roofs after time leak.

Tom Rux