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Old 01-21-2018, 11:21 AM   #82
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Default Re: New Sci Fi Setting Seeds

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Originally Posted by Astromancer View Post
A tramp freighter would need to keep costs down. Why bother with an expensive drive for exploring the stars when you can use a cheap drive to jump right to the stars you want?

I need to do more thinking on the last two questions.
If you have FTL radio, you don't have independent, small merchants who haul speculative adventure cargoes -- at least, not for long. So, the question is, what sorts of campaigns would you want to encourage?
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