On Sat, 5 Oct 2019 16:56:05 +1300, Rupert Boleyn <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
wrote:

>Or it's fast, and cheap per-message, but still requires a huge (and
>fairly expensive) transceiver station, too big to be placed in any but
>the biggest ship, too expensive for a backwater world to pay for itself.
>Thus only major fleet flagships will have FTL comms, and only wealthy
>worlds and those poorer worlds that are in strategic locations
>(especially if the system has limited range, so you need relays). As
>with the railways in the US, worlds will lobby to be the location of a
>relay station, as those on the network will flourish, while those
>off-net will tend to languish.

...and this paragraph more-or-less summarizes a good chunk of my article on
Ansibles in Traveller (URL earlier in thread). :)

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