Resource Legacy within the Terran Hegemony, circa 2550 to 3081 and beyond

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Requiem
02/09/19 02:34 AM
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In the age of Ian Cameron, Director-General of the The Terran Hegemony (circa 2550) the Hegemony was facing a silent crisis: the easily mined natural resources of its planets would soon be depleted.

The formation of the Star League however resolved this situation for the Hegemony companies when they began flooding other member states with technological marvels in return for raw materials the Hegemony desperately needed.

Move forward to 3081 and the establishment of Devlin Stone’s Republic of the Sphere.

If the former Hegemony of 2550 had depleted its natural resources where did the Republic find its Resources to manufacture its civilian and military products, as would you not think that all surrounding systems’ resources were also depleted in the ensuring 500 years, or is this just another fiat of the writers to enable the Republic to find available resources and that of anyone else occupying the former Hegemony?
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ghostrider
02/09/19 12:08 PM
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Part of the answer seems to be in the question itself.
Easily mined.
Huge corporations do not like spending money trying to get to resources they need. It is far easier to get the government to explore and hand over those resources, leaving the tax payers to finance it all. I will avoid expanding on this, as it is parallel to the real world.

It may be the writers, but there are sources of materials that were unknown to all even in the 3100's. Those Comstar/WOB facilities could very well have been on large deposits of ores or even finding asteroids around systems, but were further out then most wanted to go.
And we all know the League had bases on worlds out past the periphery realms. It isn't completely out of reason, those were being used by the hegemony before the leagues formation.

It is also possible, they annexed worlds from settlers, so they could strip mine, or even rip the world apart. Doubt any of this is canon, but it is something that might help. Without local settlers, the government could very well create a very hazardous, unlivable environment buy doing so.

There is some more far fetched ideas, like rogue worlds and such, but that is stretching it too far for my tastes.
Also, Camelot Command could be a key to the hidden assets concept.
Requiem
02/09/19 05:45 PM
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Further reading indicates that with the establishment of the Star League Hegemony Corporations strip-mined Periphery worlds for resources.

Thought it still does not answer the question as to how Stone’s Republic was able to achieve a high degree of resource availability when the Hegemony ran out of resources 500 to almost 600 years prior.

To enable a realm size availability of metal / precious gems resources requires multiple worlds (in the dozens would be required) to ensure the scale of available resources and since the fall of the Star League I have not read of any new worlds being found (only losing them due to nuclear / chemical war etc) - it still does not answer the question.

As for easily mined – if it was that easy within the age of the Star League (the height of human technology) how hard would it be able to mine within the age of Stone’s little empire with the loss of so much technology due to the Succession Wars and the Jihad etc?

Maybe what they are saying is that the differences in border worlds Hegemony / Stone’s empire there were resource rich worlds available to Stone to enable resource availability?

Though if this is the case all you need to do is take these worlds and you can effectively starve Stones’ empire of resources – that is unless he is importing resources to offset the lack of natural resource availability.

To me it reads as if the writers forgot what was previously written and just went with it.

It is only now when re-reading the older source history material that you can spot the forgotten problem and make the call that due to this very old problem this should have been addressed as an economic and technological concern within the age of Stone’s unrealistic empire.
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Carns
04/15/19 02:37 PM
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Battletech ended, and the people that bought the rights wrote bad fan fiction.
ghostrider
04/15/19 05:16 PM
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Well one thing that would have helped the Republic was the limiting of new war machines. That alone would cut back on the need for them.
Would it be enough to allow them to work right with the reduced resources?
Probably not.

The finding of resources may well have forced them into the far less efficient mining operations, that had stores of ores and such, but cost too much for the large corporations to make a huge profit. As the bottom line for them is making as much money as they can.
Their customers would only pay so much, so passing the buck isn't always available.
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