On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 6:41 PM, Christopher Sean Hilton <xxxxxx@vindaloo.com> wrote:

I know that most people don't use an in-house setting. This is a "if
you used an in-house sector..." question. The CT Book 6 rules state
that the subordinate tech level should be the main world tech level
minus one. My feeling is that this doesn't make that much sense for a
world with pop 0, gov 0, law 0. I feel this way because I'm
interpreting the tech level to be reflect what's locally available in
the market and world with no population doesn't have a market.

Thoughts?

Pop 0 means "The population does not have a tens [or higher] digit," Gov 0 means "no organized form of government," and Law 0 means "no formal system of laws."

So you could say that the world was inhabited by single nuclear family or small crew, numbering nine or fewer individuals in total.

These individuals could staff a small station with no problem, from which they could supply passing ships, with those same ships taking re-stocking orders, for when they next pass that way.

NOTE: I've been reading about intensive farming techniques lately and - assuming a source of fertilizer (e.g. sewage from passing ships) and water (e.g. actual ice deposits or - given fusion power - cracking the rock itself for trace deposits) - it would be quite possible for a small group to raise enough food to feed itself with enough surplus to sell to passing Adventure Class ships.

So you could have a [very small and specialized] market. It would just be below the grain of the random cargo generation system.

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