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From: Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com>
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Subject: Re: "Trader's Leap (23) (Liaden Universe®)" by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2025 09:56:17 -0700
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In article <jrwbQ.419742$fzq1.210872@fx10.iad>,
 scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) wrote:

> Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> writes:

(Snip! of much besides the size of crew for the "Dutiful Passage")

> 
> On what basis do you belive that?    The Dutiful Passage was a pod
> carrier - which is really no different than a modern
> container ship.
> 
> The economics (such as they are in science fiction) would seem
> to favor just picking up and dropping off pods.    Most of which
> would be automated.   Economics wouldn't favor large crews with
> the attendant food, energy, and waste disposal requirements.

_Alliance of Equals_ names 25 individuals as members of the DP crew. One 
might had been a replacement for another, which means the absolute 
minimum is 24 (except their positions names looked a bit top heavy to 
me). _Conflict of Honors_ names 11 individuals, but also states that 
there were 48 crew members in all.

-- 
"We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement."
Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_.
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