From: Todd Mason <[log in to unmask]>
>
> ----OK, for any drama to work for me, if it has something as unlikely
as
> interstellar ore-hauling, it needs to explain why credibly, or it has
to
> give me a reason to believe that such lapses in logic are
intentional, as
> they might be in a farce.
Again, you haven't really suggested why hauling a bzillion tons of ore
across light years would be a "lapse in logic". Unless you mean that
corporations wouldn't do something like that because it is easier and
more profitable in-system. And that is a fault in your logic, because
corporations do things like that all the time.
The fact that each load of ore would likely be profitable (albeit a long
period between profits), makes the R&D aspect even more logical, because
in the real world, most R&D ventures are not profitable.
mike
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