About there being only 4 places in the Spinward Marches where
TL 15 ship maintenance can be performed: I'm going to let naval
bases be capable of maintaining ships in any case, but looking
through _World Builder's Handbook_ I realized that things aren't
quite that bad. There is a very good chance (5/6) that worlds
with an A or B starport will have a Space Technology Level that
is at least 1 higher than the High Common TL (which is the one
shown on the listings). That gives us three more worlds in the
marches that can help out. Furthermore, worlds with A or B
starports have a better chance of being xenophilic, and
xenophilic worlds has a good chance of having a STL _two_
higher than their HCTL, so some of the TL 13 worlds may be able
to help out too. Perhaps the three with naval bases (Efate,
Lunion and Strouden)?
(The flip side is that TL 15 planets have a good chance of being
an STL of 16 or 17 and a small chance of having one of _18_!!!
And some of the TL 16 planets of Massila Sector could have one
of 19...
Not in my universe, though, as I don't allow any Imperial planet
to be more than borderline TL 16 with anything mass-producable.)
Hans Rancke
University of Copenhagen
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"A subsector official pompously states that the
subsector armed forces have four Kinunir class
ships in service, each with enough troop strength
to put down any military operations that threathen
the peace of the Imperium."
---Adventure 1, The Kinunir