Jinx999 Wrote:There would almost certainly people trying to get to space who haven't thought things through and don't have the contacts to get people to cover their weakpoints, people who would be illegal immigrants if they'd headed north instead of up and people with bad luck who don't make it.I could see this - a barely-converted piece-of-s***, leaking air and fuel, just barely making it to Over The Rainbow before every aboard dies... It would explain why people are living on a space station that was abandoned mid-build, and why the Space Patrol doesn't just move in and clean it up. (Sure, some of them might be Boskonians, but most of them are just suffering from bad luck or poor planning.)
But that moves this out of "silly" and into "plausible"...
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Rob Kelk
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