[Dragaera] Teleport Shipping

[Philip Hart]

On Thu, 28 Jan 2010, Scott Schultz wrote:

> From: Philip Hart
> Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 11:37 AM
> To: dragaera at lists.dragaera.info
> Subject: Re: [Dragaera] Teleport Shipping
>
>> This isn't for wooden sailing ships in occasionally disputed water - cargo 
>> ships have massive efficiencies of scale, and powered loading.  I've been 
>> wondering about sorcerously-powered ships or boats, maybe that's relevant.
>
> It's been shown that Orca sailors have a superstitious fear of using sorcery 
> to power their ships. Since they pretty much own the shipping industry (from 
> a labor standpoint, at least) that lets out sorcery as a common method of 
> reducing shipping times.

This refers to Morrolan futzing with the weather?  I was thinking more 
like running an outboard motor or the equivalent.


> Not sure how, or if, that has any influence on inland river-based shipping. 
> It might be that imagining Tekla as the crew of a river barge is incorrect. 
> Whether it's House Orca or the Imperial Navy running things on various rivers 
> throughout the Empire, it may still down to Orca barge crew, same as on the 
> high seas. In fact, it seems like just the occupation for a retired seaman or 
> for the occasional aberrant Orca who is afraid of sea travel for some reason.

That's I guess going to make it a bit more expensive than using Teckla. 
Probably this adds a lot to the cost of shipping in fact - locals at 
distribution points not liking the Orca would be evidence of that.  More 
reason to use teleportation if it's feasible.