If there are no ground installations because anything of value is mined from asteroids I can see a planet having only an orbital port facility. However, if there are facilities on a planet's surface I image there is some sort of port to allow transfer of material and personnel that only allows foreign vessels to dock at orbital facilities.
From: "Phil Pugliese (via tml list)" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
To: "TML" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2017 4:30:28 PM
Subject: Re: [TML] What class of Port is this?
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On Fri, 8/11/17, via tml list <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:
Subject: Re: [TML] What class of Port is this?
To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com
Date: Friday, August 11, 2017, 2:13 PM
On 11 Aug 2017 at 17:37, Phil
Pugliese (via tml list) wrote:
> p.s.
Anyone ever think about a situation where a planet might
have a
> HiPort but no DownPort?
Well, a size 0 world might do
that. Ditto for worlds with the
stranger
atmosphere types.
And
that's almost certainly the case with all red-zoned
worlds and
some amber.
There could be other reasons as well, say
there's a religion that
considers the
planet holy (think Mecca). They might only allow
specially crewed and putified shuttles to
land.
And some of the
stricter government types might have similar
restrictions.
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Well, 'asteroid' belts aren't really worlds or planets in my book.
Even if a starport was 'anchored' to one of the larger 'rocks', I don't think it would actually be considered a down port.
Not as long as unstreamlined ships could dock.
And there are red zone worlds that must have down ports, Andory & Candor in 5sisters/spinward marches for example.
They are Droyne worlds that are capable of starflight. In fact there's even a Droyne trading company hq'd there!
Also, elsewhere in the 'Marches, there's Victoria, (where the weird starship in the 1st CT LBB double adventure, AnnicNova, came from.
I believe that the writeup for the system was published in a CT JTAS article.
Lastly, a lot would depend on the specifics of the Imperial Charter granted to a specific system. I can see where the ImpGov would insist on a downport, w/ it's attendant extrality zone, for various reasons.
I can see where it might happen but I think it's be pretty rare.
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