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AGREED!!! (great stuff Jeff!) but w/ one caveat...

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On Tue, 3/29/16, Jeffrey Schwartz <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] Relic tech and Scarcity-Driven Imperium (was: Salvage Operations (and Submarines))
 To: "tml" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 Date: Tuesday, March 29, 2016, 10:54 AM

 Post Scarcity....

[REALLY BIGGG 'SNIP]

 Another option on this is that Traveller *is* a post scarcity
 society...
 the arguments about "you can't carry the tonnage
 needed to keep the 3I running in
 Type-A's" is completely true.
The IN couldn't
 be supported by the taxes...
 also true.

[ANOTHER BIG SNIP]

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I've never maintained (& I'm not aware of anyone else that has) that the 3I 'runs' on Type-A's.

For as long as I've been in Trav (early 1980) there have always been much bigger cargo ships.

I've seen 'official' stats for up to 10,000DT's & have heard of others up to 20,000DT's.

Would that be enough to run the CT 3I?

Some say 'Yes', others say 'No'.

I, myself, say 'Yes' & I strongly believe that the answer, for each of us, essentially reflects the sort of 3I each of us desires.

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