The problem with that is there wouldn’t be any bank loans or insurance to free traders on the frontiers.

Unless there is a sub-prime leading market to starship operators with dodgy business cases.

If PCs had to have rock solid business cases to get mortgages then none of them would have merchant ships. And then where would we be?

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For the fallen in the cause of the free:
 "When I go home I will tell of them and say,
 For our tomorrow, They gave their today."

 My spelling is entirerly due to dyslexia, typos, and poetic license

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From: xxxxxx@simplelists.com <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
Sent: 08 October 2026 08:27
To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com
Subject: Re: [TML] Avionics and Gass Giant Skimming

On 08/10/2026 12:10, Jeff Zeitlin - editor at freelancetraveller.com (via tml list) wrote:
> Sylloyd's of Sylea probably wouldn't underwrite a policy on a
> passenger ship that made skimming with passengers aboard a business
> model, and if they hear that an underwritten ship has done so, they'd
> probably look very hard at whether the policy should be ... prejudicially rescinded.
I'm sure their policies have very strongly protected exceptions for activities like GG skimming, going into a war zone that you knew, or could reasonably have known, about, and so on. The bank holding the ship's mortgage will have similar clauses in their agreements.

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