On 6 May 2018, at 04:44, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:
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> Even more thoughts!
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> Jump Bridges:
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> J4 is servicible only by exploitable fuel sources or by one use tankers (which sounds like a military decision), while J5 and 6 cannot deliver their own one way fuel usage

Not strictly true: if Alpha and Beta are 12 parsecs apart, Alpha can maintain a J6 route to Beta, using a J2 tanker route to supply it.

Then, of course, there is always the option to allow drop tanks...

> Information brokering: the commercial advantages of J4+, and somewhat less so J3, in a universe served primarily by J1 and J2 freighters, are not in moving cargo quickly - its in moving information.

Possibly, possibly not.

In some systems the use of such information might be illegal - treated like insider trading.

Philip Kitching