[Lord Chane]

Originally posted by Slynky:

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Originally posted by Lord Chane:
I don't mind either way either. I will say that I'm more in favor of swapping planets than I am of swapping ships. Exchanging planets seems more natural to me than exchanging ships. Races would naturaly tend to gravitate to planets that were good for them so it seems reasonable to me that several races working together would be willing to hand-off a planet more suited to their ally in exchange for like consideration. Ships seem more of a stretch. Races with perhaps wildy different physiologies, atmospheric requirements, mentalities, and design philosophies would seem ill suited to use each other's ships. But in the final analysis I don't care enough to take a stand one way or the other.

Again, reallistically speaking, I would tend to disagree. In an alliance, I think countrys (or empires) would tend to give away ships or trade ships much sooner than they would give a colony of their people (and have a colony containing another race given to them). I know if I was a member of a colony that was given to another empire, I'd be a bit upset. (well, of course, unless my leader was Saddam )

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Slynky and I already discussed this off-line so I'm just posting this here for everyone else's edification, assuming anyone is interested in the debate. I'll use an example to illustrate why I said that trading hsips seemed far fetched. Let's say one race is bipedal, two eyes, one brain, breathes oxygen, fairly standard humanoid stock. The second race is wildly different. They have no legs, multiple tentacles that double as an arm or leg depending on the situation, they have no eyes, and operate entirely on a sense of perception, they have a central brain that controls a sub-brain for each appendage thus allowing each appendage to act on it's own, and their natural habitat is is a carbon dioxide atmosphere at three times Earth normal pressure. Yes, I know I've gone a bit to the extreme on the differences, but my point is that races with wildy different physiologies, atmospheric requirements, means of manipulating controls, etc., would be unlikely to swap ships. Tech, yes. Planets, although not colonies in the sense of already developed planetary facilities, yes. Ships, I wouldn't think so. Colony structures, not very likely.