Maritime shipbuilding and shipping in the Golden Age (Destiny)

by Grizzlei , Pacific Cloud Zone, Earth, Tuesday, October 17, 2017, 15:05 (2395 days ago) @ Durandal

It boggles my mind how such a dire necessity, one made so unglamorous mere decades ago for us, persists well into the 22nd and 23rd centuries on far-flung alien worlds. In an age when you can take your jumpship to any point on the planet in hours, if not minutes, on Earth, Enceladus, and Titan, here lies hulking, steel leviathans bashing through the high seas taking their sweet time.

Heavy lift starships and space elevators are a thing and were likely readily available to the capitalists, colonizers, and commanders of the Golden Age and yet here we see the sensibilities that grew a maritime industry elsewhere in the cosmos. Makes me wanna cry it’s so beautiful.