Communications and the Economy

As it turns out, Science Fiction about Gray Goo nano-assembly and faster than light communications was just that: Fiction.

Economics is still driven by scarcity. There is no magic end around that allows us to convert Hydrogen into Rembrandts and Palm trees. Assemblers and cybernetics can help, but you still have to build things. Core worlds can manufacture and afford more than the Outback. The outback still has easier access to minerals, rare-earths, radioactives and Hydrogen. This is where we come in, moving raw materials to the core, finished goods and fresh rations to the Outback. Supply and demand. And we aim to fill it.

Now as to communications. There are those who have watched old style vids of space empires projecting real time holograms halfway across the galaxy. And well, we’ve got the skip drive so why not instant communications. Turns out the Skip drive is some sort of hole in Einstein’s Law’s. Don’t ask me how it works because I don’t know. I just own the ship.

So it turns out there’s good money to be made in delivering mail packets. Turns out that some of the best payouts can be if you have an encrypted server to deliver official mail to some far-out in the Outback – never mind the pay you can make if you deliver an official Colonial Courier to another system.