Re: [TML]Tracking spaceships in Jump TU, was: Instant city Kelly St. Clair 13 Feb 2016 04:18 UTC
On 2/12/2016 8:08 PM, Richard Aiken wrote: > Consider the time period when the xboat service was inaugerated. The > period immediately following the Imperial Civil War was probably a > fairly unsettled time. Even if the powers that be were willing to used > unmanned drones as the actual couriers, someone may have pointed out a > couple of inobvious benefits of having a sentient pilot aboard. One such > benefit could have been to serve as an increased gaurantee that the ship > would not be shot at or boarded . . . since destroying or stealing an > unmanned drone would be a lot less provocative than doing the same to a > manned ship. Probably some combination of that, union rules, and the regs that prohibit planes (and soon, at this rate, trucks) from moving without a human to watch the controls, even though the autopilot is capable of handling all routine operations by itself. -- --------------- Kelly St. Clair xxxxxx@efn.org