Quote:True, but...
I dunno, still seems kinda silly to charge all the way out to a mining rig around Jupiter for hydrogen & rush it back to Venus for synthesizing into organics when you could just mine the organics off Titan, Triton, Pluto, Sedna, Quaoar or Eris. Saves that extra step.
1. Then the organics are being sold by the rock rats, not the VTP, removing that source of revenue and making the project's survival and future less secure.
2. Your mining ships are making only - at best! - half as many round trips - and selling only half as much cargo - as they could be coming from Jupiter.
3. Importing things from outsystem does absolutely nothing to thin the Venusian atmosphere. (As opposed to very little, granted, but still.)
4. Metallic hydrogen is denser than ice, and therefore, if I understand correctly, likely to be more profitable for the miners.
5. Diving into the stormy depths of the largest planet to reach the refinery floating deep in its thunder-lit abyss... is cool.
6. Floating Islands are cool. If they aren't synthesizing salable stuff, there's much less reason to have them, or as many of them.
Ja, -n
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