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Old 02-20-2016, 02:11 AM   #12
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Default Re: [Game] Generate a Space Trader Setting

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Originally Posted by Daigoro View Post
Question- Which company or planet makes the best jumpdrives and jumpships (from a free trader's point of view)?
In order to fill their market niche, free traders need highly accurate drives to meet short deadlines that their clients demand. In human space, free-traders and other smaller starship purchasers buy their jump drives (Called the red-drive because of red-shifting seen by stationary observers) from the Blue Danube Corporation (BDC), the original developer of the red-drive and makers of the most accurate. However, BDC charges exorbitant amounts for their most accurate red-drives, so smaller producers still can compete by selling outdated designs, while shipping companies tend to produce their own red-drives.

For a chip-in for the 8 leftover species:
The Chetai are species of molluscs, generally likened to snails. The average Chetyn is about a foot tall and half a foot wide at the shell. Unlike Earth snails, Chetai have 3 pairs of tentacles; from top to bottom, eye stalks, manipulators, and olfactory (smell).
Like snails, Chetai move extremely slowly by foot, no more than 4 miles in their entire lives, and thus have ridden around on something for most of their history. In early history it was a draft animal, but later on they were replaced with motorized vehicles.
Despite their low speed of movement, Chetai have extremely fast reflexes. Because of this Chetai are known throughout the galaxy as talented pilots.
Chetai can communicate through either scent or sign language. Due to integration into galactic society, many are equipped with vocalizers.
So now there are 7 left.

Question: Are there any interstellar organizations?
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