I dunno... the more I think about it the more I kind of like the idea of things taking a bit more time to travel around. To some extent things should feel like a frontier, and maybe this is me as an American, but if I can get from Earth to anywhere else in a matter of an hours, nowhere in the solar system actually is a frontier anymore. Why have a frontier settlement pop up in belts, for example, when you could just pretty easily commute every day from Luna or whatnot?
The idea of just casually driving interplanetary in an any ramshackle vehicle bugs me. In the very early days, why *should* it be easy? If you're trying to go great distances in a tiny space, well, it should be uncomfortable and you should feel like a bit of a loony. Later on, there is at least The Island between for example Earth and Mars, why wouldn't there be other similar waystations?
Everything being too close together in travel time and it's just... too small. There's no need for all sorts of regional groups and factions, no need for multiple groups to try to do defense and policing, etc.
The idea of just casually driving interplanetary in an any ramshackle vehicle bugs me. In the very early days, why *should* it be easy? If you're trying to go great distances in a tiny space, well, it should be uncomfortable and you should feel like a bit of a loony. Later on, there is at least The Island between for example Earth and Mars, why wouldn't there be other similar waystations?
Everything being too close together in travel time and it's just... too small. There's no need for all sorts of regional groups and factions, no need for multiple groups to try to do defense and policing, etc.