Re: Oh, No! More Wildstar!

> From: [email removed] (Derek Wildstar)
> [...]
> its approximate peak).  The Empire contained 10,497 main worlds with a
> population of about 16,731,817,153,000 sophonts.  The annual Gross Imperial
> Product is 219,474,958,700,000,000 Imperial Standard Credits.  The Imperium
> imposes a tax burden of about 1% of the GIP, producing Imperial revenues of
> about 2,194,749,587,000,000 Imperial Standard Credits per year.
>
> Using the TCS starship construction rules in combination with (hopefully
> reasonable) assumptions about the types of ships constructed, I further
> calculated that there are 11,813,221 starships registered in the Imperium;
> with an aggregate volume of 73,832,634,000 tons displacement.  The original
> article, along with the supporting data tables to support my conclusions,
> should be available from one of the TML FTP sites.  Recently, I have been
> looking at some of these figures more closely.

I found this artilcle very interesting, but I have a question about the
above data. I'm not certain of where you got the GIP from, but what does
the taxation rate have to do with the volume of shipping? Most of the
traders will either belong to MegaCorps, or to private traders, not the
government. Perhaps you could explain what assumptions that you used to
arrive at these figures, I may want my universe to have a different set
of assumptions....

				-Dan

Dan Corrin, Network Manager, Mechanical Engineering, UWO, London, Ontario
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