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[Dragonstar] The 65 billion gp magic item, or the Magic Beanstalk
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<blockquote data-quote="alaric" data-source="post: 75052" data-attributes="member: 296"><p>I have a couple of problems with the numbers your using. First it appears you made a mistake in your calculation of spellcasters. Notice that you said 100 star systems with 40,0000 casters a piece, but you only ended up with 400,000, instead of 4,000,000. I also think (i haven't been able to find the Galaxy Guide yet so i don't know) that 100 star systems seems incrediably small for Dragon Star, they way they talked in the Starfarers Guide i assumed somewhere on the order of 1000 habited systems. If one or both of my alterations are correct this reduces build time to a much smaller number (and even with your 9x increase in size it would still leave you at around 3 years to build).</p><p> Secondly, the recoup cost. 1cr/ton of cargo? That's one steal of a deal. I'm not sure how much the current space tugs would cost but 1cr/ton sounds amazingly low, 100cr/ton sounds cheap to me. The whole reason the space elevator concept is being seriously looked at is the massive costs involved in moving cargo to space. I would assume the same would be true for a Magic Space Beanstock, you wouldn't build the thing if it was going to only cost 1cr/ton to move cargo.</p><p> Both of these things added together make the concept both more economical, and worthwhile over the short run. This could mean a corp owned by humans or elves may be just as likely to build on as a dragon corp.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="alaric, post: 75052, member: 296"] I have a couple of problems with the numbers your using. First it appears you made a mistake in your calculation of spellcasters. Notice that you said 100 star systems with 40,0000 casters a piece, but you only ended up with 400,000, instead of 4,000,000. I also think (i haven't been able to find the Galaxy Guide yet so i don't know) that 100 star systems seems incrediably small for Dragon Star, they way they talked in the Starfarers Guide i assumed somewhere on the order of 1000 habited systems. If one or both of my alterations are correct this reduces build time to a much smaller number (and even with your 9x increase in size it would still leave you at around 3 years to build). Secondly, the recoup cost. 1cr/ton of cargo? That's one steal of a deal. I'm not sure how much the current space tugs would cost but 1cr/ton sounds amazingly low, 100cr/ton sounds cheap to me. The whole reason the space elevator concept is being seriously looked at is the massive costs involved in moving cargo to space. I would assume the same would be true for a Magic Space Beanstock, you wouldn't build the thing if it was going to only cost 1cr/ton to move cargo. Both of these things added together make the concept both more economical, and worthwhile over the short run. This could mean a corp owned by humans or elves may be just as likely to build on as a dragon corp. [/QUOTE]
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