Ahem.
In other news, terraforming will require a whole mess of specialised equipment and, more importantly, expertise that Fenspace simply won't have the economic base to produce on its own. Genetic engineers need to be paid. Gene sequencers need to be bought. Turbine generators cost money. And so on; relying on handwavium tech for these things will create an ecosystem completely saturated in the stuff. Something people other than the most daring fen would be willing to live in takes hardtech, and hardtech takes cash.
If you want to run an operation the size of the VTP, let alone expand it, you need money. Period.
Ja, -n
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"Puripuri puripuri... Bang!"
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My... guess, evaluation, opinion... is, that the profit margin of making hydrocarbons is greater than the cost of shipping them to Earth and water back in return.
In other news, terraforming will require a whole mess of specialised equipment and, more importantly, expertise that Fenspace simply won't have the economic base to produce on its own. Genetic engineers need to be paid. Gene sequencers need to be bought. Turbine generators cost money. And so on; relying on handwavium tech for these things will create an ecosystem completely saturated in the stuff. Something people other than the most daring fen would be willing to live in takes hardtech, and hardtech takes cash.
If you want to run an operation the size of the VTP, let alone expand it, you need money. Period.
Ja, -n
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"Puripuri puripuri... Bang!"