Idea : Peter Chambers
Also "Those Shops" in Pratchett and The Emporium in the Fafhrd and Grey Mouser stories. Shops that simply get about.
This lot have NO ships or
space capability. Instead they can make bases on planets according to some
maths rule (as yet undiscovered, but like the Life finite state machine).
The bases only have stuff like Public Space Port and Smugglers Cantinas.
They leech natives off by offering better pubs, cheaper
CDs, etc.
You
can fire on them from orbit (It's the only way to be SURE.....) Or you can
try to Ground Assault them. But there may be consequences... like sometimes
no one comes back. Your people join in the Fair...Carnival...Market... in
fact this is like some sort of pre-modern Fair. Morals are laxed, taxes do
not exist, freaks roam the corridors... quite like B5 in fact!
<GREG> < xxx>
doesn't fit within DP frame work. Also note, other races can only have
custom structures they can natively build.