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On Sun, 10/9/16, Richard Aiken <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] System generator: Tech levels on Barren Moons
 To: "tml" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 Date: Sunday, October 9, 2016, 11:00 PM

 On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 6:41
 PM, Christopher Sean Hilton <xxxxxx@vindaloo.com>
 wrote:
 I
 know that most people don't use an in-house setting.
 This is a "if

 you used an in-house sector..." question. The CT Book 6
 rules state

 that the subordinate tech level should be the main world
 tech level

 minus one. My feeling is that this doesn't make that
 much sense for a

 world with pop 0, gov 0, law 0. I feel this way because
 I'm

 interpreting the tech level to be reflect what's locally
 available in

 the market and world with no population doesn't have a
 market.

 Thoughts?

 Pop 0 means "The population does not have a
 tens [or higher] digit," Gov 0 means "no organized
 form of government," and Law 0 means "no formal
 system of laws."
 So you could say that the world was inhabited by
 single nuclear family or small crew, numbering nine or fewer
 individuals in total.
 These individuals could staff a small station
 with no problem, from which they could supply passing ships,
 with those same ships taking re-stocking orders, for when
 they next pass that way.
 NOTE: I've been reading about intensive
 farming techniques lately and - assuming a source of
 fertilizer (e.g. sewage from passing ships) and water (e.g.
 actual ice deposits or - given fusion power - cracking the
 rock itself for trace deposits) - it would be quite possible
 for a small group to raise enough food to feed itself with
 enough surplus to sell to passing Adventure Class
 ships.
 So you could have a [very small and specialized]
 market. It would just be below the grain of the random cargo
 generation system.
 --
 Richard Aiken

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There's an example of this in the CT SolRim supp.

It's a system inhabited by a single family just across the Imp border.

In fact, according to the supp it's not actually part of the SolConfed.

I've always considered that, perhaps, a small mining operation could also be in place, in addition to the above.

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