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Which is exactly why the 3I has all those J6 Fleet Couriers racing around!
I can easily imagine that the MegaCorps have the same capability or something similar.
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On Wed, 6/14/17, C. Berry <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
Subject: Re: [TML] Dumb Q about Passages
To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com
Date: Wednesday, June 14, 2017, 12:57 PM
One can
imagine a market for this developing on routes between major
worlds. Picture a pool of loitering ships, each kept ready
to jump on a moment's notice. Businesses wanting to get
data to another world *right now* can bid for exclusive
message transport. Ships that accept a bid then get the data
beamed aboard (encrypted, naturally) with instructions where
to send it in the target system. If a lot of traffic like
this is happening, the market would probably be automated to
connect businesses and ships quickly. And of course the
really big players would have their own private messenger
fleets, turning to the market only when they run out of
their own ships, and perhaps putting excess ships
temporarily on the market as well.
Again, this would only happen
between pairs of high-traffic, big-business worlds. In the
backwaters, you'd still get the PC-friendly scenario of
the frantic businessbeing running into the starport bar
waving a wad of credits and asking who can jump a message to
Hellengonne XIV *right now*. :)
On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at
12:43 PM, Jeffrey Schwartz <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
wrote:
On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 3:29 PM,
Christopher Sean Hilton
<xxxxxx@vindaloo.com>
wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 10:43:16AM -0700, Kelly St.
Clair wrote:
> Also, I would expect
some companies would gain a business advantage by
> building small J-3 or J-4 transport ships to move staff
from home base
> to hot spot and back as today's companies use
private jets and
> helicopters. I'm reminded of an episode of Chasing
Classic Cars where
> a business man took the host to Colorado for a day trip
to inspect a
> Ferrari Daytona. Via private aviation, that trip
probably cost in the
> $10k ~ 50k range but the car in question was worth
several hundred
> thousand dollars if not millions and it had special
meaning to the
> person paying for the trip.
>
I would suspect that J3 or J4 would likely be quick
enough to beat the
X-boats in some routes... which would mean that a business
could be
making decisions about an event before the competition even
knew the
event occurred.
Sort of like the current High Frequency Trading push on the
stock
market to shave microseconds off the communications lag in
order to
make a better stock deal, but on a longer time frame.
Knowing the price of ____ is going to skyrocket a day before
everyone
else knows could potentially pay for the ship in one use.
Of course, that hinges on the ship being available to carry
the
message from the site of "unexpected events" to
the center of commerce
in a reasonable time... which could, potentially, make for a
PC
Adventure thread. "W-Boats" ("We're there
one before X") hires the
players to operate a fast courier that is dispatched to
potential
"places of interest" and told to keep watch for
"an event", then rush
home to report.
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