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13 months a year, right?

Insurance is mostly ignored in TRAV but Misjump ins is likely; Overdue Ins would make a big comeback. Presumably the Ins cost is built into bank payments. The bank would check nearby systems and after finding you never reached one they would cash in policy as would factors awaiting your cargo. Since you can prove your location you now own the ship outright but will find the Ins co has a lien on it to cover their expenses.


Specialist policies

Various types of specialist policy exist, including:

Newbuilding risks: This covers the risk of damage to the hull while it is under construction.

Yacht Insurance: Insurance of pleasure craft is generally known as "yacht insurance" and includes liability coverage. Smaller vessels, such as yachts and fishing vessels, are typically underwritten on a "binding authority" or "lineslip" basis.

War risks: Usual Hull insurance does not cover the risks of a vessel sailing into a war zone. A typical example is the risk to a tanker sailing in the Persian Gulf during the Gulf War. War risks cover protects, at an additional premium, against the danger of loss in a war zone. The war risks areas are established by the London-based Joint War Committee, which has recently moved to include the Malacca Straits as a war risks area due to piracy [1]. If an attack is classified as a "riot" then it would be covered by war risk insurers.[2]

Increased Value (IV): Increased Value cover protects the shipowner against any difference between the insured value of the vessel and the market value of the vessel.

Overdue insurance: This is a form of insurance now largely obsolete due to advances in communications. It was an early form of reinsurance and was bought by an insurer when a ship was late at arriving at her destination port and there was a risk that she might have been lost (but, equally, might simply have been delayed). The overdue insurance of the Titanic was famously underwritten on the doorstep of Lloyd's.

Cargo insurance: Cargo insurance is underwritten on the Institute Cargo Clauses, with coverage on an A, B, or C basis, A having the widest cover and C the most restricted. Valuable cargo is known as specie. Institute Clauses also exist for the insurance of specific types of cargo, such as frozen food, frozen meat, and particular commodities such as bulk oil, coal and jute. Often these insurance conditions are developed for a specific group as is the case with the Institute FOSFA Trades Clauses which have been agreed with The Federation of Oils, Seeds and Fats Associations and Institute Commodity Trades Clauses which are used for the insurance of shipments of cocoa, coffee, cotton, fats and oils, hides and skins, metals, oil seeds, refined sugar, and tea and have been agreed with the The Federation of Commodity Associations.
 
The Imperial Calendar don't need no stinking world with 365 days. Every world must comply with the Imperial Calendar! All hail the mighthy Imperial Calendar! Comply! Comply! Comply!


Hans

I've always wondered why the Imperial calendar uses a Terra year, instead of a Vland year, or a Capital year for that matter...
 
I've always wondered why the Imperial calendar uses a Terra year, instead of a Vland year, or a Capital year for that matter...

Solmani 2nd Imperium influence... the languages became coequal but the calendar had to match the rules Solmani time sense... the 3rd just carried on after because it was just to hard to change a 2nd time and Humaniti nobillity was as much of Solmani descent as it was of Vland.
 
Insurance is mostly ignored in TRAV but Misjump ins is likely; Overdue Ins would make a big comeback. Presumably the Ins cost is built into bank payments. The bank would check nearby systems and after finding you never reached one they would cash in policy as would factors awaiting your cargo. Since you can prove your location you now own the ship outright but will find the Ins co has a lien on it to cover their expenses.
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You raise an excellent point. Banks will not loan you money even now without some sort of insurance against the asset you are buying and preferably on the surety/collateral as well. Why would we assume ( why would I assume) that banks would still not require that.

I would suspect that insurance companies like Zirunkariish would not begin to pay out until a minimum of 72 weeks (2 x 36 weeks for potentially each way) has past as they could put it off that long by saying maybe they mis-jumped. Insurance companies always put off until the absolute last if they can. If an event has happened once that would be the new base line for payouts.

Even now it takes 7 years on average to declare someone dead (missing can be as fast as 2 days, or 15 mins if child) so they would still be looked for by the insurance company after the 72 weeks for many years. OTOH the bank would stop as soon as they got their money from the insurance.

makes a great adventure hook - insurance PI's for Zirunkariish. Gives you a reason to be heavily armed, have a pocket battleship and the money to back it up. Or in a reverse scenario... getting chased by the same.
 
IMTU, ship loans are underwritten by the government... shipbuilding being an integral part of interstellar commerce and the interstellar banks being chartered by the government. Banks will lose their profit, but not their credits.

Thus, government agencies are responsible for finding (and writing off; and auctioning) missing assets after a grace time has expired. Such have the option of calling on military resources when available and needed... :devil:
 
more sideways

Ruie 1809 to Retinae 0416

Just an idea for the poor crew. The engineer could jury rig a second tank in the cargo hold. The only problem refueling in a system with no GG or water present and an E starport. But there is always the research base ... :devil:
 
Just an idea for the poor crew. The engineer could jury rig a second tank in the cargo hold. The only problem refueling in a system with no GG or water present and an E starport. But there is always the research base ... :devil:

they are already planning their next moves. :rofl:
poor sots... jump arrival date is 185 1107 (teach them to ask the date at the beginning of the game :) ) - wondering when I should tell them what that means.... (see 187 1107)

unarmed and no boats on board beowulf class free trader vs research base?



I really have hijacked this thread from it's original purpose .
 
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they are already planning their next moves. :rofl:
poor sots... jump arrival date is 185 1107 (teach them to ask the date at the beginning of the game :) ) - wondering when I should tell them what that means.... (see 187 1107)

That doesn't mean the Zhodani Navy has sent a task force to deal with the research base on Retinae on 187-1107. Depending on other operational needs it could be months before they get around to it. Or it could happen on the dot. Your choice.

unarmed and no boats on board beowulf class free trader vs research base?

Wouldn't the ship and the base be on the same side?


Hans
 
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