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Originally Posted by Varyon
Maybe it drives everyone nuts, and nobles are the ones who can still function despite the crazy. Could make for an interesting setting if the ruling families are all mad. Terrifying, yes, but interesting.
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This is beginning to sound like the Spacer Guild from
Dune. But without the whole Melange thang, and then mixed with something that sounds akin to the Tessier-Ashpools from
Neuromancer.
Petulant hyperspace navigators, what could go wrong?
EDIT: If their livelihood is space based, why are they interested in planetary based resources or industries? Surely they'd be more interested in controlling the hubs of interstellar trade, along with any associated Zero-G related industrial complexes. Their relationship with the populations on the planets which they orbit could be akin to that of the various business interests which inhabited the Bund of pre WWII Shanghai, and the polities and societies which made up Thirties China. Vaguely predatory, possibly.