On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 03:02:05PM -0700, Evyn MacDude wrote:
>

> I suspect this kind of thing could well be folded into Traveller…and
> some of it already is; as TL is defined as ‘what can be made
> locally’. Consider a TL-12 grav truck manufactured with TL-14
> control systems imported from a TL-15 world. There could a lot of
> lucrative trade in shipping parts, not whole widgets.
>
> Honestly that is closer to the trade model in my head than any
> other.  Especially once infrastructure costs are folded into the
> larger equation.
>
> There is a healthy trade in used Manufacturing lines world wide,
> where obsolete lines are sold to new markets where they can afford
> the manpower to operate them.

This is an interesting way to look at trade goods in Traveller. In
this case I would just call it an TL-14 Grav Truck because I don't
expect much of a technology change in Grav Lift Modules from TL-12 to
TL-14 but I do expect a large change in control systems.

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Chris

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