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"Not even kings and CEOs can afford a privately owned ship, not one that would only serve the mundane goal of moving their tiny mass between the centres of our civilisation. Sure, CEOs might travel on company ships or hitchhike a ride on a friendly gov's MIPCS but they would not be dictating the schedule: deltaV is dirty expensive, even if you are a diplomat riding along on a military vessel to sort out another confrontation with the Civilised Hives. But there will always be ones more equal than others, and some will have the insane idea of commissioning a private ship, reminiscent of the superjachts of the previous generation. Only few - very few - can do it. NAS and TransNat trillionares who got rich from code and DNI manufacturing, unnamed but known individuals in the New Republic and few of the Gulf State royals, at least before their proxy war turned blazingly hot." - Emanuel Stehlík, former TransNat FSF procurement officer, at a 2106 forum in New Delhi

"Private ships - most running on the best of the best deuterium drives - were seen as the danger by many. Even partial drive flumes could melt a larger habitat under minutes and most of the owners had a large array of barely legal point-defense installed on the ship. High, usually not single-axis acceleration - and sustainable one at that - also meant that these ships, unlike bulky cargo ships, could turn into a flaming, radiating and ramming weapon at any moment's notice. And while LEO was guarded well enough, Venus or Mercury were not and the militaries were not willing nor capable of sending a destroyer to follow each of these ships. So they did the next best thing they could within the law - turned each ship's owner life into a bureaucratic hell. 'Random' boardings near every protected rock was guaranteed, so were issuing no-burn orders along suspected trajectories months in advance or temporary revoking tightbeam licenses under the guise of CT operations. In many documented cases, the NAS SFC simply bought up almost all fuel pellets at a station and then issued rationing order just in time for the yacht to dock, driving up prices by orders of magnitude." - A Brief History of InnerSys Traffic Control, 2141

"I swear to god, if that fucker lights up his drive facing us once again, I am putting shrapnel warhead up his shielding cone" - audio from the NASS Haywood Hansel, leaked by Cuban hacktivists in 2112. Voice presumably belonged to weapons officer. At the question of Spiegel, the officer was re-assigned to non combat duty and has prompted a complete rewrite of low-orbit Rules of Engagement.

"Our previous models can pull a nice, comfy acceleration of a third G on the entire Mars-Earth loop, and new versions of our tilted centrifuges setups can create virtually any additional effective G for the four main cabins. See 'Cruise and Health' section on pg. 11 for further information." - ArushaWings built 6 commissioned vessels, all situated in the same but iconic, mildly curved prefabbed hull. This is the only known example of a multi-produced, private vessel of pre-2120.

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"Not even kings and CEOs can afford a privately owned ship, not one that would only serve the mundane goal of moving their tiny mass between the centres of our civilisation. Sure, CEOs might travel on company ships or hitchhike a ride on a friendly gov's MIPCS but they would not be dictating the schedule: deltaV is dirty expensive, even if you are a diplomat riding along on a military vessel to sort out another confrontation with the Civilised Hives. But there will always be ones more equal than others, and some will have the insane idea of commissioning a private ship, reminiscent of the superjachts of the previous generation. Only few - very few - can do it. NAS and TransNat trillionares who got rich from code and DNI manufacturing, unnamed but known individuals in the New Republic and few of the Gulf State royals, at least before their proxy war turned blazingly hot." - Emanuel Stehlík, former TransNat FSF procurement officer, at a 2106 forum in New Delhi

"Private ships - most running on the best of the best deuterium drives - were seen as the danger by many. Even partial drive flumes could melt a larger habitat under minutes and most of the owners had a large array of barely legal point-defense installed on the ship. High, usually not single-axis acceleration - and sustainable one at that - also meant that these ships, unlike bulky cargo ships, could turn into a flaming, radiating and ramming weapon at any moment's notice. And while LEO was guarded well enough, Venus or Mercury were not and the militaries were not willing nor capable of sending a destroyer to follow each of these ships. So they did the next best thing they could within the law - turned each ship's owner life into a bureaucratic hell. 'Random' boardings near every protected rock was guaranteed, so were issuing no-burn orders along suspected trajectories months in advance or temporary revoking tightbeam licenses under the guise of CT operations. In many documented cases, the NAS SFC simply bought up almost all fuel pellets at a station and then issued rationing order just in time for the yacht to dock, driving up prices by orders of magnitude." - A Brief History of InnerSys Traffic Control, 2141

"I swear to god, if that fucker lights up his drive facing us once again, I am putting shrapnel warhead up his shielding cone" - audio from the NASS Haywood Hansel, leaked by Cuban hacktivists in 2112. Voice presumably belonged to weapons officer. At the question of Spiegel, the officer was re-assigned to non combat duty and has prompted a complete rewrite of low-orbit Rules of Engagement.

"Our previous models can pull a nice, comfy acceleration of a third G on the entire Mars-Earth loop, and new versions of our tilted centrifuges setups can create virtually any additional effective G for the four main cabins. See 'Cruise and Health' section on pg. 11 for further information." - ArushaWings built 6 commissioned vessels, all situated in the same but iconic, mildly curved prefabbed hull. This is the only known example of a multi-produced, private vessel of pre-2120.