Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Robert Woodward Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: "Trader's Leap (23) (Liaden Universe®)" by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2025 09:56:17 -0700 Organization: home user Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <104i4k8$3bol7$2@dont-email.me> <104joac$3nd7h$1@dont-email.me> <104kja9$3sg4v$1@dont-email.me> X-Trace: individual.net FkMbheaXJKS0xMX9/F9DhQYyVgy5n/oUI1rzrvcNz8FNuvEZHo X-Orig-Path: robertaw Cancel-Lock: sha1:pHWnIuJX3zYFNXgUQAfuspabr5o= sha256:C4iuEh7PG5YppUD+ptLrn5vi26L7VWxxh6O4Z4iR66U= User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.2 (Intel Mac OS X) In article , scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) wrote: > Lynn McGuire 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_. ‹----------------------------------------------------- Robert Woodward robertaw@drizzle.com