Florian Trade Route
The Florian Trade Route is the main trade route in the The Trojan Reach Sector between the Imperium and the Florian League, running from Tobia Subsector to Yggdrasil Subsector.
The Route requires fourteen jumps for a Jump-2 freighter, taking on average 140 days. The Florian League provides no protection for traffic along this route. Imperial ships do sometimes accompany convoys along the corridor but most traders are on their own after leaving Arunisiir.
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Florian Trade Route Path
The Route similar to the Hierate Route, the Florian Trade Route begins at Fist in Tobia Subsector and then proceeds along the following path:
Wildeman/Tobia (Trojan Reach 2819)
Cordan/The Borderland (Trojan Reach 2821)
Arunisiir/The Borderland (Trojan Reach 2621)
Blue/Tlaiowaha (Trojan Reach 2421)
Torpol Tlaiowaha Trojan Reach 2221/Tlaiowaha (Trojan Reach 2221)
Oghma/Sindal (Trojan Reach 2020)
Thebus/Sindal (Trojan Reach 1919)
Number One/Sindal (Trojan Reach 1818) [assumed]
Acis/Dpres (Trojan Reach 1619)
Tyr/Dpres (Trojan Reach 1518) [assumed]
Sagan/Dpres (Trojan Reach 1417) [assumed]
Janus/Dpres (Trojan Reach 1216)
291-540/Dpres (Trojan Reach 1016)
Yggdrasil/Yggdrasil (Trojan Reach 0815)
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"The Florian League imports radioactives, computers and electronics, biochemicals, spices and medical supplies; they export advanced manufactured goods, advanced vehicles, advanced weapons and other manufactured goods."
The 'Imports' are mostly good; adding 21200 Cr/dTon to the usual market prices represents Radioactives -- adding 2.12% Cr/dTon, averaging a '12' on the sale price table on page 243; Computers and Electronics -- adding 21.2%, averaging a '15' or '16'; Biochemicals -- adding 42.4%, averaging a '18' or '19'; Medical supplies -- adding 42.4%, averaging a '18' or '19'; Spices -- adding 353.3%, averaging a '25+'; this is flatly ridiculous.
I would guess that since the Florians import 'Medical Supplies', they might also import 'Pharmaceuticals'. Maybe not, though.
A fully loaded Galoof brings 177.3 MCr worth of profits from (one way) freight fees on the J-3 route. The average dTon going from the Imperium to the Florians is ~241200 Cr/dTon; which represents 3.678 GCr worth of goods for one Galoof-load. Except that (assuming a trade balance and no feliberately empty cargo space) the flow of goods the other direction is less valuable per dTon, so we should expect maybe less 'radiactives' than other goods to reflect that.
Exports are: Advanced Manufactured Goods -- adding 21.2%, averaging a '15' or '16'; Advanced Vehicles -- adding 11.8%, averaging a '13' or '14'; Advanced Weapons -- adding 14.1%, averaging a '14'; and 'Other Manufactured Goods' -- which is pretty vague.
'Other Manufactured Goods' might be: Common Manufactured Goods (+106%), Vehicles (+141%), Textiles (+707%), or Polymers (+303%) -- but all of them have really high adds. It might make sense in some alternate universes to declare 'Florians are bad at Broker' to make sense of the 'Imports', but then their exports cannot be profitable. The differences in trade codes (Fist is Ni (Non-Industrial) and Ht (High Technology); while Yggdrasil is De (Desert) and Po (Poor)) cannot account for the die modifiers needed.
The average dTon of goods (neglecting the 'Common Manufactured Goods') flowing from the Florian League to the Imperium is ~143.3 kCr/dTon; or 2.186 GCr per Galoof-load. That means that a normal payload for a Galoof from the Imperium is ~1475 dTons of Radioactives, and ~3443 dTons of each of the other Trade goods; although there is probably some justification in dropping the amount of 'Spices'.
I am just doing quick-and-dirty estimates here; but as a first approximation:
Goods shipped on the Florian route average 143.3 kCr/dTon, but take twice as long to complete the route. A dTon of cargo on the Hierate route averages 50 kCr/dTon; but there is five times as much, twice as frequently, so the Hierate route shipping is worth about 3.49 times as much as trade on the Florian route per unit time. Since there is a minimum of one Galoof-class (about 468 MCr/month) from the Tobia Commerce Guild on the Florian route, there can be expected to be a minimum of five Galoof-equivalents (5 x 327 MCr/month) from the Tobia Commerce Guild on the Hierate route.
The Tobia Commerce Guild ("The Duke's Own" Pirates of Drinax 'Trojan Reach' book p131) makes up 'over a third of the traffic across the Aslan trade route'. They have recently placed an order for four more 50k dTon freighters 'doubling its capacity'; so a capacity of 200k dTons is six Galoofs plus a little, which so far fits the assumptions above. If the TCG splits its' shipping capacity 5:1 between the Aslan & Florian routes, and makes up about 35% to 40% of the shipping on the Aslan route, then expect the major players to amount to 417k to 476k dTons of shipping (between 4538 to 5186 MCr of goods moved per month) on the Hierate route -- and between about 83.4k and 95.2k dTons (1296 and 1499 MCr/month) on the Florian route.
