original question didn't say mail, said travel.
wouldn't have thought it, but after checking the spinward marches, you're right, and I'd guess that the core sector stellar densities are at least those of the marches.
I've always assumed that the major worlds (Capital and the sector capitals) were connected by jump-6 liners. The per-parsec cost of jump-6 shipping is about six times that of jump-3 (the cheapest), but there must be enough millionaires on the high-population worlds to keep some liners in the black. And if it's drop tank liners, the cost is a lot lower (Remember that business about jump-6 drop tank liner service being extended to Regina? That fell through, but that service had to have been extended from somewhere. Rhylanor, is my guess. Which means that Rhylanor has jump-6 service extended to it from Mora. Which means Mora is in touch with Deneb and [the Capital of Corridor] and Vland by jump-6 service).Thanks for the info...and to think, I had it on a bookshelf the whole time
I was thinking of designing a liner that would be part of a series on what I had termed the 'Capital Route', but not sure that it would be practical for that second leg (Capital-Terra)...I mean basically a year at J4. About 7 months at J6 might work. Looking back at our history, I'm pretty sure it took at least 6 months to go from Europe to say India before steam and the Suez Canal.
Any thoughts?
why would they make such journeys? surely there is no reason for any material good to be shipped such distances, and the only passengers who might have a need to spend half a year in transit would be dukes and archdukes, and perhaps imperial inspectors - and they would have their own transportation and would not use commercial passenger liners.
the standard cost of even a low berth passage over sixty parsecs in a j4 ship would be almost a year's average salary in the imperium - and the standard low berth passage cost doesn't seem able to generate a profit in a j4 ship. given the expense the comparison of travel in the imperium with earth's travel history doesn't seem apt.
Yes, but the sector admiral would tell the sector duke, wouldn't he? And the fleet admirals would tell the subsector dukes. It seems to me that anything else would be extremely contrieved.
Ím not talking about the mainstream (Although I don't see how you can get passengers and crew on civilian jump-6 liners to keep their mouths shut). I'm talking about the movers and shakers. The story goes that Norris got advanced notice of Strephon's death and used it to promote himself to Archduke before the news broke. But it seems to me that the news must already have broken to the people he had to get to accept him. The sector duke of Deneb must have heard before Norris did and likewise all the subsector dukes. Delphine must have heard as soon or sooner than Norris. If not, every duke in the Marches would at least have heard by the time Norris' message announcing his elevation reached them.
I haven't worked out jump-4 routes, only jump-6 (with shorter jumps when astrography demands it). Note: If I give a specific number of jumps, I've worked out a specific route on the map; if I give a range, I haven't.)
I always work with per-parsec costs. According to my calculations (for which I give no warrantry
) jump-6 middle passage ought to cost about CrImp 36,000 or CrImp6,000 per parsec. At those rates a trip from Muan Gwi to Capital would cost three quarters of a million, about a life's salary for an average Imperial. Only a millionaire would be able to afford that. But a world like Muan Gwi would have a lot of millionaires. And, of course, there would be people who 'only' wanted to go from Muan Gwi to Easter (the next coreward subsector capital) and others who want to go from Easter to Kelvin, (the next coreward subsector capital), etc.
