Part of that was the longer civilian routes compared to the military routes.
Due to the vagueries & dangers of hyperspace, some routes were military only
(and some of those were only known to the Minbari & not Earthforce).
The B5P RPG has some very good maps of the routes used; from memory the
civilian route was nearly 2 weeks & the military route about 5 days.
Brendan 'Neath Southern Skies
http://home.pacific.net.au/~southernsk/
> -----Original Message-----
Wouldn't you also have to factor in - no direct routes - the freighter
making multiple stops to load and unload cargo.
Gravity Eggs, well don't they just break like eggs...
Thrusting something like that up out of gravity will require special
packing, (a lot of effort and weight/bulk), otherwise, well you have
just
packed one grat big omlette. The same might go for thrusting - though
rapid thrust changes shouldn't occur on a civilian freighter.
Next you might have to worry about quarintine issues, like all fresh produce
it may need to be held in quarintine for a period of time to make sure no
nasties are present (Eggs for example are banned from importation in Australia
because of quarintine issues, unless you have special permits, or the goods
can be treated to make it safe).
This means that the price of a egg would be worth a lot - especially if
it was a fresh egg.
Robyn
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> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 03:53:31PM +1000, Robyn Stott wrote:
> This means that the price of a egg would be worth a lot - especially if
Man, over that distance you don't ship eggs - you ship chickens!
R