Re: Freighters vs Scouts
There are some scenarios that make it possible for more freighters to end
up as relics rather then being scrapped.
Wars are a good possibility, though that should also lead to plenty of
military wrecks. On the other hand self destruct mechanisms might have
been common in military ships, but not in civilian ones, so it might be
way more civilan ships surviving as wrecks suitable for archeology.
You could also have some cosmic catastrophe (a hyperspace tsunami). That
could also serve as explaination, why ships are researched and not
planets. The alien civilisation might even still be around somewhere far
away, all that can be found for the time being are the victims of the
"everybody does a big misjump day".
You could also have large discrepancies between real space and hyper space
distances, and the players empire might be at one point relativly close to
the researched empire in real space (but still too fat to do any
meaningfull contact), while the empires are far away of each other in
hyperspace.
So you could occasionally find a wreck that has drifted through real
space. And especially if a war seems to be going on on the other side, the
players empire might decide to research who the others are, before
deciding on initiating a contact, and for the time being try to keep their
presence hidden.
One mans groundfloor is an other mans earthmissle
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Johannes Trimmel
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