Re: Interstellar Trade

Perhaps using a brief trade classification doesn't describe a planet's
economy fully, but it does indicate its tendencies.  Take, for example,
"Industrial" and "Agricultural" worlds.  Agricultural worlds must have
good conditions for whatever food is being grown there - good atmosphere,
sufficient water, for example.  These places produce "real food - not the
stuff you get out of tubes".  Industrial worlds are quite the reverse -
stuff the environment, make things cheaply, and who cares if the result
is pollution on a major scale.  That's why all Industrial worlds have
atmospheres which are at least Tainted, if not outright poisonous.

One thing I haven't seen in Traveller is any equivalent to the old clippers.
Their function was to get tea from China to Britain as fast as possible, to
get the best prices.

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