There's the question of whether the planets are worth settling and/or exploiting at all: the gravity wells saddle them with a distinct economic disadvantage that at best can be mitigated through the use of space elevators and the like. Even agriculture might end up moving into space, if the hardware needed to set up and operate a space farm is cheaper than the costs involved in shipping food into orbit.
The only economic reason I can think of to settle planets is if there are on-planet resources that are prohibitively expensive to get from anywhere else. -- Jonathan "Dataweaver" Lang _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
