Or why airports are several feet thick of concrete and such, a 747 landing can buckle or sink int the ground a dirt or thin airport tarmac/strip. If the 747 was to do an emergency landing, there is places it would have to be moved with in pieces or oly cause it had to do a belly landing..
Mike On 6/19/12, Johannes Trimmel <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> In some cases production and destination sites might be at the star port >>> or otherwise it might be practical to land the freighter in their >>> parking >>> lot. But i would assume that this is the exception rather then the rule. >> >> Traveller has plenty of worlds with one town. If that is >> a company town, would the starport be located for the >> convenience of the employees or for the ease of freight >> handling? >> > > You need a large enough parking lot that is empty at the right times, for > the ship to land. Given the SOP for free trader freight (which is > generated by the tables in question) is that the ship first lands and then > looks for cargo, not even putting your factory* next to or into the star > port will guarantee this, since the wrong ship(s) might be sitting next to > your factory. > > Moving the ship to the factory for loading operation would be an operation > that in most cases involves star port flight control. Which means the star > port authorities will propably not like the practice overly much and try > to discurage it. > > If you have a standard setup with an upport and a downport and > unstreamlined ships go to the upport, and the factory is on the planet, > you limit yourself to streamlined ships. > > In some cases there will be legal reasons for ships not to leave the > extrality zone. > > If either the source or the destination prohibits direct access by the > ship, you are better off with shipping a container. > > There are some cases where i can easily see such a setup. For instance > with space stations and astereoid bases it works quite well, also with low > tech worlds, with little trade and thus also little traffic control. But > guessing without actually running any numbers i think getting such > conditions on both sides is not the norm. > > And for many table results there is an other problem with using that > approach. There also is the type of contract (i forgot how they call it in > FT and i don't have the book with me now, DFD, CIF ect) that determinates > what the freighter crew is responsible for. Most types specify delivery to > and from the star port. IIRC none really fits a case, where both source > and destination are outside the star port. > > In case of a space station you could have the factory meet the ship docked > on an upport, but that sounds like an exceptional rather then a usual > setup. > > > *or whatever it is instead of a factory > _______________________________________________ > GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> > http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l > -- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Poetry-L/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adulthumor-L/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Abrigon-World/ _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
