07-02-2013, 07:59 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-02-2013, 08:00 PM by stevebowers.)
The description of interstellar trade sounds very interesting. I'm quite sure myself that interstellar trade will be limited to information and copies of mentalities, genomes, blueprints and recipes, at least until a wormhole arrives in system. This means that Stross' trade scenario would apply to the whole First Federation period, before the development of traversable wormholes, and to the whole of the Periphery, beyond the reach of the Wormhole Network.