On Wed, 23 Dec 2020 21:41:10 -0500, Jonathan Clark <xxxxxx@att.net>
wrote:
>2) What's the point? AFAICT there are three reasons to be on such a craft:
>
>2A) Habitation
There's also the way certain tax-related laws are written - Someone
who lives on a boat but doesn't own the anchorage (e.g., rents a slot
at a marina) may be able to stay at sea (i.e., outside legal
territorial limits or the Exclusive Economic Zone) or move from
jurisdiction to jurisdiction often enough for specified periods so as
to avoid tax liability in any of those jurisdictions.
Oooh, I'm not sure I considered this angle. Although the adventure is set in Core Sector and never strays from that so it would depend on using planetary extraligty rather than Imperial/non-Imperial space jurisdiction. Or something.
>2B) Getaway
Some people may be hermits by nature. If you have the money to do it
in style, this is a pretty good way to ensure that you won't have to
deal with those icky other people except when you want to or need to
(resupply).
Also, this! (Although that wasn't a feature of the adventure. Though now I think about it, the reason the dilettante second son could borrow the yacht for a bit was because the Count and Countess had unloaded the yacht from the hanger and were taking it sailing around some large lake).
(Yes, that sentence probably needs spaceyacht and seayacht to clarify it!)
In the hanger they a grav RV, seayacht, four air-rafts (limos really - not your usual Traveller air-raft) as well as the pinnace and the launch! (Did I mention it was *big*?)
