Simple Question ...

[SMGSterlin]

I would say it's feasible for at least Outcasts to have trade lanes built.


Outcasts have a large income from Cardamine sells and don't really have anything lacking they need, like food or water. They also have connections to Lane Hackers, which are ex-Ageira employees, so they could, at the very least, build an older model of a trade lane if the parts got smuggled in.

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[Apollon]

Well i see it is Realistic and not, Because as what Sterlin Said they have connections to LH and so, and it is called TRADE LANES why the hell should they use it to move their Capital ships and military ships, especialy for Outcasts..

[ejoman3002]

Now if the had a catapult at Malta for quick response throughout alpha. That might be something they can use for there caps.

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[Treewyrm]

They're called 'trade' lanes in a sense that they were pivotal in establishing commerce to a whole new level within systems by allowing ships to travel fast and goods, materials and people to be delivered faster. It was what pushed economy further on, although undoubtedly not as much as jumpgates did. Trade lanes are essentially a rapid transit system in the Freelancer universe. It doesn't mean that only trading transports go through them but in peace time indeed the major bulk passing through would be transports, hence the name. Their function is that they are trade roads and essential part of the rapid transit system. Don't be so bluntly literal, think about where the name comes from first and why.

[Echo 7-7]

Because only Liberty and Gallia have a monopoly on it's construction and maintenance?

Nommies... They have their own, so they may be can give tech to outcasts...

The Nomads are fundamentally incapable of developing infrastructure-related technology. The "Nomad" Trade Lanes are Daam K'vosh tech.

Both theirs and Ageira (and consequentially Gallia) are based off Daam K'Vosh tech. Nomads can and they do build both gates and lanes as it is, they're different too. And they are experimenting with that technology pushing envelope further, the evidence is all there, a prime example would be main research conducted by Das Wilde. You don't expand that tech without knowing how it works. They may not know its full potential but they know some and they are learning to get more out of it.

'fundamentally incapable'... They have their own infrastructure and quite obviously able to make it and put into use, unless you mean to say that none of their systems exist and they never built any bases. That's just ridiculous. You may as well just go and deny existence of Gallia and whole bunch of other factions and all the new systems in Discovery.

There's also the issue of communication, as Nomad to human telepathy is largely conceptual (to my knowledge) so would be nigh on impossible to communicate the sort of technical details required to translate such technology. This is aside from the fact the Nomads probably don't "know" how DK tech works, just how to utilise it in their own context.

Nomads were able to utilize Dyson sphere to their own needs, just to name a few significant ones. You don't use this kind of thing without knowing how it works, and they sure know how it works, what it does, and how campaign artifact key was related to it and why it was so important. You don't build lairs and those energy sources without knowing how it works. Now if you just want to make Nomads look dumb... What for, may I ask? What is the purpose? Are you going to tell me now those lanes in Iota were built by DK? Naah, I think I know well enough what I put in there in the first place. :-) And I know well enough how it and several other systems nearby will look like some time later.

Still they are highly unlikely to build lanes for Outcasts, there is no reason for them to do so, regardless of communication. But hypothetically would Outcasts need lanes? Not sure. But not for me to tell either. Actually I don't recall Outcasts being interested in that technology, may be I have missed something about it? But assuming they would it comes with uneasy notion that there would be alien-built lanes around. I'm not sure that's something Outcasts would actually want.

I just wish you'd stop making false claims that are pretty clear contradictory to what is already there.

I would concede the point if you could explain how Nomads actually build things. I am genuinely under the impression that anything not Nomad-blue isn't made by Nomads.

Edit: Rather than telling me I am wrong, tell me why I am wrong. My PM inbox has plenty of room.

Edit 2: Fixed my first post to make sense.

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