In message <c4i49a+dm22_at_...> "Kevin McDonald" writes:
>Donald Oddy wrote:
>> Did someone open a moonboat factory in Glamour while I wasn't looking?
>>
>> These things are supposed to be rare, expensive and supposedly used
>> for important imperial business.
>
>They are apparently not as rare as all that. The moonboat article in
>ILH-1 (page 12) describes them as "increasingly common", and says that
>they range in size from "small coracles to large merchant cogs
>lumbering throught the sky from sky-port to sky-port. Most are
>privately owned, but the Imperial Moon Craft Association owns all the
>largest ones."
I wonder what "increasingly common" means in terms of numbers - as
common as private planes are today? I also presume this refers to
within the glowline rather than outside where they are at risk of
being stranded.
--
Donald Oddy
http://www.grove.demon.co.uk/