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Star Wars Saga: The Dawn of Defiance [OOC Thread]
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<blockquote data-quote="Binder Fred" data-source="post: 5956382" data-attributes="member: 63746"><p>The problem with slave mining is that you can't put heavy machinery and explosives in the hands of the slaves and not expect them to use them against you. Mining without heavy machinery/explosives is far from economical: sure, it costs much less per day to run your mine, but you're getting a minute fraction of the ore you could get out *with* machinery. It'll take you something like ten to a hundred times longer to get the same volume of ore out (a big nono if you're on a schedule). Depending on your slave overhead (procurement, living expenses, *security* expenses, problems with PR/the law), you might actually end up paying more *per grams produced* (in the case of gold for example) with pure slave labor.</p><p></p><p>So, in our perticular case, the question becomes: does the Empire want to waste precious time, pushing back an urgent project just so they can save a few creds and punish a bunch of rebels they could just as easily have executed and have done? Sloor is thinking no, so there must be some other motive besides punishing people. Adverse conditions for droid/machinery mining came to mind, either from the ore itself or the planet's local conditions (EM interference, unusual heavy-wear conditions (repairing droids is pricey), ore requires delicate manipulation during extraction (intact crystals required for use), droids difficult to quietly smuggle/maintain at that location (for political reasons?), etc).</p><p></p><p> (I'm sort of "in context" right now myself, drilling to start a mine and all that, so this is closer to my heart than perhaps the story's RL accuracy warrants <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />. Let me know if Sloor would just accept Empire slave mining at face value and he'll move on.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Binder Fred, post: 5956382, member: 63746"] The problem with slave mining is that you can't put heavy machinery and explosives in the hands of the slaves and not expect them to use them against you. Mining without heavy machinery/explosives is far from economical: sure, it costs much less per day to run your mine, but you're getting a minute fraction of the ore you could get out *with* machinery. It'll take you something like ten to a hundred times longer to get the same volume of ore out (a big nono if you're on a schedule). Depending on your slave overhead (procurement, living expenses, *security* expenses, problems with PR/the law), you might actually end up paying more *per grams produced* (in the case of gold for example) with pure slave labor. So, in our perticular case, the question becomes: does the Empire want to waste precious time, pushing back an urgent project just so they can save a few creds and punish a bunch of rebels they could just as easily have executed and have done? Sloor is thinking no, so there must be some other motive besides punishing people. Adverse conditions for droid/machinery mining came to mind, either from the ore itself or the planet's local conditions (EM interference, unusual heavy-wear conditions (repairing droids is pricey), ore requires delicate manipulation during extraction (intact crystals required for use), droids difficult to quietly smuggle/maintain at that location (for political reasons?), etc). (I'm sort of "in context" right now myself, drilling to start a mine and all that, so this is closer to my heart than perhaps the story's RL accuracy warrants :). Let me know if Sloor would just accept Empire slave mining at face value and he'll move on.) [/QUOTE]
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