Re: "Trader's Leap (23) (Liaden Universe®)" by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller

On 7/8/2025 2:25 PM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:

In article <104joac$3nd7h$1@dont-email.me>,
Lynn McGuire  <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

On 7/8/2025 9:12 AM, Scott Lurndal wrote:

Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> writes:

"Trader's Leap (23) (Liaden Universe®)" by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
  

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Master Trader Shan yos'Galan is taking the main Korval space ship, the
"Dutiful Passage", with its crew of hundreds

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Do you actually _read_ the Liaden stories?  Or just the summaries on
liars social?
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Where has the crew of the Dutiful Passage ever been described
as being in the 'hundreds'?

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Just an impression as 17 ???  of the crew departed at one of the planets
visited.  The "Dutiful Passage" is also configurable as a warship with
many war modules replacing its cargo modules.  If you have ever worked
in 24x7x365 facilities as I did for several years, I was always amazed
at the number of people involved in running the plants.
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Who is liars social ?  Reddit ?
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Lynn
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 It's an interesting question.  I think we know all of Bechimo's crew and
it's probably about a dozen, but he is a small ship.  Dutiful Passage
is much larger, and, as mentioned, armed, but then again modern container
ships are said to have crews of 20-30 and they are pretty big.  I think it's
safe to say at least that we haven't been introduced to all of DP's crew
onscreen.

Can I state that a modern container ship and a huge space ship, probably in the range of a mile to ten miles long, are two different levels of complexity ?
After all, the container ship uses Earth's air.  The space ship will have to generate air for the humans to breathe.  The container ship uses combustion engines using fuel and using air from the atmosphere. Spaceships will probably use a fusion drive.  On and on for the different levels of complexity.  And DP has a dedicated security force which container ships do not generally have.
IIRC, most of DP's fighting modules are kept in a secret location.  They are not carried by DP all the time, that space is reserved for cargo.
Lynn