Hi,
The real issue in all this maybe cost, and to a degree copyright.
The Traveller universe works differently in regard to its commercial
relationships with individual planets. The Imperium strives to make no
world truly independent and self sustaining.
So would it be commercially viable for a starship crew to 3D print or cnc
cut their own firearms, against a world of 3 billion who make nothing but
shotguns and carbines.
A slobbering tale to add with reference to computer boards etc. I work in
telecoms, a company I work along side brought several telephone exchanges
via another company. With the supplier they had a maintence package (all
normal industry stuff). To save some money they decided to unofficially
drop the support package. Unknown to the the supplier had fitted a date
code into its software, which when the maintence was performed was reset.
Predictably the date expired at 4pm on a Friday afternoon, all the
exchanges shut down, much to the duty on calls misery.
The point being when being pursued by star destroyers, the last thing you
need is copyright issues with your jump drive :-) due to dodgy parts.
Ian
The real issue in all this maybe cost, and to a degree copyright.
The Traveller universe works differently in regard to its commercial
relationships with individual planets. The Imperium strives to make no
world truly independent and self sustaining.
So would it be commercially viable for a starship crew to 3D print or cnc
cut their own firearms, against a world of 3 billion who make nothing but
shotguns and carbines.
A slobbering tale to add with reference to computer boards etc. I work in
telecoms, a company I work along side brought several telephone exchanges
via another company. With the supplier they had a maintence package (all
normal industry stuff). To save some money they decided to unofficially
drop the support package. Unknown to the the supplier had fitted a date
code into its software, which when the maintence was performed was reset.
Predictably the date expired at 4pm on a Friday afternoon, all the
exchanges shut down, much to the duty on calls misery.
The point being when being pursued by star destroyers, the last thing you
need is copyright issues with your jump drive :-) due to dodgy parts.
Ian