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Post by Kage2020 on Jul 18, 2004 11:19:43 GMT -5
The length of the journey probably has little to do with the wear-and-tear on the vehicle in question. And I was primarily referring to the initial cost of the vessels, a feature which would be tempered by long-term mortgages/loans, etc.
I'm just saying that it would be unlikely that a company would have acquired so many ships capable of warp travel...
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Post by Dazo on Jul 18, 2004 12:24:34 GMT -5
Ah right, well i'm flexible, this is why the mega carriers seemed like a good way to take this as i would still have a few warp capable ships for those certain jobs that demand fast travel, but that many of them would just be transported in super carrier's thus drastically reducing the cost of maintaining their fleet. I do believe that the initial out lay of cash for these ships would soon be recouped super/mega carrier haven't decided on that, anyone have a preferance
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Post by Kage2020 on Jul 19, 2004 1:12:32 GMT -5
Taking a simple linear approach to ship costs (this may not entirely be plausible since the price of ships with large volumes of 'empty space' does not progress linearly), having these 'super liners' is going to cost somewhere around 50% (guestimate) of the Gross World Product of an entire world... that is a significant dedication of resources. Also, just because it is not warp-capable does not mean that a ship has a necessarily reduced maintenance period. It just means that most of the maintenance need not be carried out by the adeptus mechanicus...
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Post by Dazo on Jul 19, 2004 2:30:28 GMT -5
Glad to here it, That would mean if the ship owners had the capacity to maintain their own ships it would be cheaper than say paying some one else to do it
Maybe, maybe not it depends on who is making the ships, how competetive an industry is it, lets not forget the Leskus corporation is more than just one company. These ships could be a joint venture between numerous companies so costs would be lower again. You would only need maybe two or three of them constantly working, moving from system to system picking up and dropping off ships in a cyclic fashion Lets say one starts of at seleca moves on to meksum moves on to quechit an so on, but you will also have one that started of at quechit moved onto seleca moved on to meksum so as one is leaving a system another will be due to arrive shortly afterwards .The circle of life
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