At least for the kid. I didn’t get to walk until I took her to school. I talked about the lack of an homogeneous identity among the toe-hold communities.
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Your writing, your work Nathan. I thought of giving the Dark as it’s know to the “Elites”, those that live among the stars, a simple name with high value for uncountable generations to come that live and work always in the so-called darkness: “Free Spirit”. Who is the freer of the 2 separate sects that have developed?
Who lives under the shackles of the elite few and can be sent off planet because they don’t need an employee like a child and yet will bill them highly to take them to a near planet or location and dump them like waste material?, to find their own way. Those people who fall-through-the-cracks. Where better than to eventually find their way to “Free Spirit.” The dark isn’t so bad or nearly so cold when you have hope for a future.
I could well imagine these individuals calling their home where no one can essentially bother them and they can grow and flourish a Free Spirit, and these would be the very people to conquer such a place and be able to provide the supply routes to established planets as well as the newer planet that were becoming terra-formed. :/
You talk about eve often I use to play and want to start again what sector or region are you base
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Glenn, my main base of operations is in Minmatar space around Oppold, but I have people all over the place.
I used to play EVE as well, and played for a long time as an Indy character. If you ever want some advice or bounce some ideas off of a veteran feel free to email me.
I’ve found that buying the raw mins for production can be a bit hit or miss if you’re buying from a major trade hub (Jita, Rens, Dodixie, Amarr) as the buy orders tend to stay not too below the sell orders there. Being able to take advantage of smaller hubs like Lvl 4 mission systems can sometimes help subsidize your mineral input cost. I would also refer to sites like EVE Central (www.eve-central.com) so you can look at market history for the whole galaxy at once rather than a region at a time in game. EVE Central doesn’t always have up to the minute data but being able to analyze multiple regions at once is huge.
Yeah, I use Eve Central a lot and I agree, there’s not a lot of room between buy and sell prices. It’s why I tend to mine my own while I’m writing. 🙂
Definitely a good call on that. I loved AFK mining in high sec when I did play. Kinda tempted to reactivate my account(s) now. Flay safe out there!
Finally caught up! We’ll see how long that lasts.
On the Toehold-CPJCT connections, I wrestled with a similar problem in my Chessman series. It’s not shown until book 3 (still an unedited draft), but the piracy syndicate tied itself into the more civilized region’s financial network via the insurance industry, specifically for interstellar trade.
They control the risk, so they can boost the rates within the bounds of government regulation. For insurance policies written by others, this risk is real. For insurance policies they write, the risk may appear real, but it isn’t. When an “other-insured” cargo is stolen, that’s actual theft, a loss covered by the other insurance. When piracy-insured cargo is stolen, it’s effectively a purchase of cargo, i.e. they acquire the cargo and pay out the value of that cargo.
For the destruction of ships, they are careful. “Other-insured” ships might actually be destroyed if they resist against the pirates, and for those other insurance companies (and those crews) this is a legitimate loss. As for piracy-insured ships, well, why not simply have piracy-owned ships, operating with the appearance of legitimacy? They never really attacked. They simply transfer the cargo in deep space and dummy up the logs. Then, if the shipyard-impaired pirates want to move one of those shiny new legitimate vessels off to their own, they simply insure it, fake its destruction, and move it off to a new home, effectively purchasing it.
And all the while skimming off the profits of the risk-boosted premiums with risk that they never actually face. Yes, I’m sure they’d burn a few just to keep suspicions at bay, but by and large they would be risk-free. All they have to do is never make the risk high enough to invite government/naval interference.
I don’t think this exact system will work between the Toehold and CPJMT given the different politics, but you might look into other ways they can tie into the CPJMT financial system to their benefit.
Anyway, glad to see you walking and writing.