>>6314502>>6314522>>6314553>>6314556>>6314559In the aftermath of your victorious battle against the SPACE USURER, you are troubled by introspective ruminations on the nature of technological vs economic supremacy. Is it really true, that in the Darwinistic struggle for competitive survival and domination, the best always wins?
Is it the really the best technology at the frontier that determines the aspirations of humanity, or are people instead insidiously shaped by other, invisible forces? Your engineers tell you tales from the forgotten myths of ancient aviation, the Earth of the last century - how the plane that was once the pride of Britain and France, le Concorde, a plane that flew twice as fast as others was commercially defeated by cheaper, wide-body American aircraft, carrying four times the passengers - Boeing 747s, the very same company that also launches spacecraft. Is it better to build rockets and spacecraft, or to merely build regulations profiting from spacecraft - which is more worthwhile?
