Refuelling
Refuelling posted in Spaceships & Vehicles forum comment posted by uncle_jimbo| Author (uncle_jimbo @ Jan 22 2022, 16:50) |
| On further thought, the systems required to do it are probably expensive enough that it's not attractive for Spring Breeze's mission (spaceports couldn't charge as much as they do if their customers could run the process themselves noticeably cheaper - so that starts to constrain the investment required) but might be viable for other conceivable concepts. |
I've said that the work described in "The Taurus Contract" might take about two years, so at minimum, I'm specifying that the system required to recharge a mass reactor of the size assumed in
Starships costs more than 2 x 2 x $25,000 = $100,000. There are probably some assumptions to pull out of the figures listed for ship loans to find a reasonable break-even period. That makes the dark matter collector stats I've listed elsewhere look pretty cheap, or the reactor size served pretty large.
Hull space would also be a factor, to a varying degree depending what else the ship or station needed to fit in that space. If it was cargo, that would also impact a freighter's or trading station's profit.
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