I fully agree, but hey Word of Fen is Word of Fen. It's my choice to take that and pretzel my brain around into sensible numbers. Good thing I love pretzels right?
The Grand Galactic Credit Theory
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I fully agree, but hey Word of Fen is Word of Fen. It's my choice to take that and pretzel my brain around into sensible numbers. Good thing I love pretzels right?
Random Ikea sofa cover, to be precise. Interestingly (or maybe not), the price of the actual sofa has somewhat smaller variation.
If anyone's read the first page of the Poe A planet content, the first page when you arrive there states that Steele sees ships that are probably worth as much as the planet.
One has to remember that ships in TiTS are like cars to us. The average ship price to them would be comparable to the average car price to us, although likely a bit more expensive with all the extra components. There's probably billions of ships in the galaxy anyway.
Makes me wonder how one of these planet costing ships are made.
One has to remember that ships in TiTS are like cars to us. The average ship price to them would be comparable to the average car price to us, although likely a bit more expensive with all the extra components. There's probably billions of ships in the galaxy anyway.
Makes me wonder how one of these planet costing ships are made.
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That doesn't seem like a useful or accurate analogy. In fact, I'm going to call bullshit. The average middle-class household in TiTS does not have, and could not afford, a starship. Starships aren't something most of the people would even need to use regularly.
A ship might be more accurate. Most people don't own one, or need one, and most of the people who actually own them are people who make their living with them (and even they usually don't own the whole ship on their own), or rich fucks that just want to show off.
Yeah, space ship to sea ship is the comparison that comes most immediately to mind for me. Largely because they don't actually make cars of a comparable size to, say, a freighter that would actually prove economical on an interplanetary scale. That plus the whole pirates, navy, and docks thing really draws the mind to nautical things.
That's probably a much better example than mine actually. Although there would definitely be a lot more Space-ships in game than Sea Ships at any time in history. I wouldn't be surprised if there was billions, there's that many planets and races.
That reminds me, in a weird way, of a question I had for a while. Why exactly TiTS verse doesn't have massive Transmetropolitan-style cloning farms and all the delicious forms of enterprises they allow for. The technology is there, and considering how much crap gets through the loopholes in U.G.C. laws and the state of artificial sentience rights, it should be technically or fully legal.
Just because society isn't down with Living Steel doesn't mean they're all cool with flash cloning either. "Growing" a living sex toy is a far cry from growing an actual entire person. That said, the tech probably does exist in the form of black market organ farms and the like. Keep in mind if clones were widespread and legal, you can imagine that no one but clones would work the sex industry due to intense competition from clone-using brothels. why pay ~80-150 creds for an actual whore when you can pay like 15 for a clone 'doll'? Discounting the ultrarich and their eccentricities of course.
The "spacecraft are just sea-ships" view is what I took from it too. Passenger ships for commercial travel and large freighters are widespread, but privately owned ships like Steele and Saendra have? You're either Warbucks Jr (Steele, and even then ours is considered a rustbucket) or make your living with it (Saendra)
Then again I take an overall dystopian view of the TiTSverse. Spacepunk rather then Space opera, y'know?
Pretty sure Steele's ship just looks like a rustbucket. It does have brand new engines and computers, so it's probably pretty nice as far as personal ships go. Also, Steele apparently prefers to use it over hotels even if they're floating in cash, so it's likely pretty posh inside as well.
Personally, I prefer sleeping in Taivra's chambers. And the bunk area of Tavros was described to be pretty run down themselves.