Re: [TML] What class of Port is this?
Phil Pugliese
(12 Aug 2017 14:32 UTC)
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Re: [TML] What class of Port is this?
tmr0195@xxxxxx
(12 Aug 2017 19:54 UTC)
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Re: [TML] What class of Port is this? Kelly St. Clair (12 Aug 2017 20:03 UTC)
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Re: [TML] What class of Port is this?
tmr0195@xxxxxx
(12 Aug 2017 22:29 UTC)
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Re: [TML] What class of Port is this?
Kelly St. Clair
(13 Aug 2017 14:19 UTC)
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Re: [TML] What class of Port is this? Kelly St. Clair 12 Aug 2017 20:02 UTC
On 8/12/2017 12:54 PM, tmr0195@comcast.net wrote: > Afternoon PDT Phil Pugliese, > My apologies for not editing my response back to the original post and > for not being clear in my post. > If a planet does not have any sort of permanent ground presence I can > see that it probably has only an orbital port. > Here is how I think ports may be established: > The inhabitants start with a ground installation to reach orbit. > Expanding throughout their system they establish orbital facilities. In > Traveller once the jump drive comes on-line one or more of the orbital > facilities get upgrade to a star port and/or new facilities get built. > Ground facilities for the original space program may or may not be upgraded. > Worlds that are being terra-formed or be colonized might have orbital > facilities first and then have ground facilities built later. > Tom Rux The vast majority of inhabited worlds in the 3I are colonies, I believe. There aren't any natives, no "original" space program. There may well be worlds that had to climb back out of their gravity well during/after the Long Night, to reclaim the orbital facilities already waiting there, but I submit that's a different sort of situation. -- --------------- Kelly St. Clair xxxxxx@efn.org