Somtaaw wrote:...snip...
As long as they don't let their hyper generator fall into such disreputable state like the Hali Sowle, which had a military grade hyper drive, and it had that pole that needed to be replaced ~1,000 hours prior to them even going near Mesa, and the Green Pines incident.
If a tramp freighter, that passed through multiple hands and was used as a smuggler... then larger corporations should also be able to operate military-grade, or near-military hyper generators.
Cut into their margins slightly? Sure, most definitely.
Cut into their margins enough to make it inefficient? Almost certainly not.
Do you have textev for Hali Sowle having a military style Hyper generator? I can't find it. It would also be an unnecessary bell on a tramp freighter that was making routine trips to Mesa. Making round trips faster than was normal makes security types nervous.
An additional nit. It wasn't a thousand hours it was one hundred thousand hours.
Have fun,
T2M