Ship sales

Thoughts:

1) One thing no one has manufactured: Manufacture of a design by license. This
isn't really covered AFAIK in the tuffleyverse but isn't impossible (nor in
some cases even uncommon). We could well see the ESU license its
smaller ships (DD or smaller) to other nations - and those ships would
then be built in the smaller nations with some national modifications (often
to try to replace systems the ESU didn't think they should have). This creates
a much larger pool of available designs and the LAST thing the Tuffleyverse
should become is restrictive.

2) Keep in mind FB1 and FB2 constitute only a portion of the respective
fleets. When me and Indy discussed it, we figured maybe 1/2 to 1/3rd of
the actual fleets IIRC. Now, if they constituted a third, the remaining
2/3rds
are probably older designs (not all, but most). Some are probably just the
classes we don't see represented (provisioners, SDBs, monitors, etc). The FBs
show *representative samples*. So, this being the case, many of these older
designs may have been sold in much larger numbers or licensed out (see 1
above) as compared to the newer designs.

Just something to ponder.

> 1) One thing no one has manufactured: Manufacture of a design by

I think that this definitely goes on. Not only that, but it allows for some
more iteresting variants.

> 1) One thing no one has manufactured: Manufacture of a design by

I'm sure it does, and not only under licence - there is probably a good
bit of "buy one (or just nick the plans, much cheaper!), build lots of
near-copies" among the smaller powers.....