>The advantage for the Lunars to having access to the sea is for cheaper
>transportation, and while you're dead-on straight that it'd be much
>cheaper to haul goods down the Oslir, portage to the Creek-Stream and
>then ship overseas than it is to go through Corflu, it still really
>seems to me like a pretty limited trade (Corflu being *insanely* limited
>- -- they must subsidize the hell out of trade there). I can't see bulk
>goods like grain ever being worth the cost of shipment, or possibly even
>things like most pre-industrial produced goods. They're not gonna
>compete with locally-finished goods in the anticipated markets -- even
>things like large-scale cloth sales in Sartar would be troublesome.
As you point out, it's not really much of an advantage.
It's probably unimpeded access to the sea that's more important. Without Prax, they have to go through the Pharaoh. This is either an extra cost, or perhaps a restriction on certain types of trade. (On the other hand, it's hard to imagine the Holy Country setting up customs posts and looking for contraband murex shells.)
Exactly what's involved, I don't know. Certainly anything from the ocean is pretty exotic in Dara Happa, and very valuable.
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