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> On 4-May-00 at 03:12, Mikko Kurki-Suonio (maxxon@swob.dna.fi) wrote:

> OTOH, if one wants to retain the suspension of disbelief, one must set

Let me make my point a bit clearer.

You can either have space colonies with intersteller trade and a profit being
made, in which case you need to have an intersteller military, or you can have
shipping costs be unsupportable, in which case you will have no intersteller
military.

So what I am really saying is your transport costs cannot be so
extravagent that only an ultra-high tech force can be fielded.

It looks to me like you need a better reason for the NAC to take
that max-tech force out to planet Y to put down the rebellion than
"Travel is expensive". I personally would think it would be a political thing,
"Losing people is expensive politicly".