' Wrote:It seems odd that some of the more desperate factions like the Corsairs are able to have capital ships when they could better invest their money in building transports for artifact smuggling or buying more food.
A note,
Maybe they already did? Maybe they already have had so many transports and smuggled enough to make cash to be used in making shipyards? It doesn't always take multiple planets to have enough resources to build ships. A single planet is enough, more than enough.
Ships don't need food to be operated. Or even built, considering that must of it is automatic, not as many human bodies needed to have everything work. The Corsairs are on a food -shortage-, which doesn't mean they're out of food. They probably have more than enough to properly feed important people.
And no, it doesn't matter how much money the Corsairs might have, they'll always lack the food, they simply don't have it. Other than pirating, the only other way of food is brought by zoners or random freelancers/traders. They can't really open trade relations with anyone, due to enemies surrounding them.
So yeah, I'm pretty sure the Corsairs already did that stuff you mentioned, been years you know.
