[Dragaera] Teleport Shipping

[Philip Hart]

On Wed, 27 Jan 2010, Howard Brazee wrote:

> On 1/27/2010 11:18 AM, Philip Hart wrote:
>> This conversation is about skills learned when there was no orb - I seem
>> to recall another that suggested the improvements were because the orb had
>> changed, but probably that's in the Piroiad and describes an earlier time.
>> 
>> I think the above means that cargo teleportation is at least slightly
>> cheaper but faces too established a market to take over immediately or
>> even at all.
>> 
> Remember what we've seen about the boondocks.   Those people are living in a 
> much poorer, more backward world.

They probably don't have major shipping companies beating a path to their 
door, or the empire raising taxes in the capital to build good roads to 
their hamlets.  What they can do is get a book on sorcery and give it to 
the smartest kid in the neighborhood and see if gya can learn to teleport.