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As you said, getting the holds is ~71,000 creds. Add in the merf, and you're adding in about another 50,000 creds, or something like that, unless I'm confused. That means that the total cost for those holds should be ~121,000 creds, and that assumes that you manage to get the holds, not totally toast the ship. So it would end up cheaper to buy the holds at 110K, rather than 121K. I don't remember the basic ship costs, though.


I think your problem is you don't realize something about hold cost. Hold cost increases with each hold you buy. The reason it's cheaper to buy both the 33k Merf itself *and* the 28 more holds is those 28 holds are *much* cheaper per hold than the last 22 holds on a Colt. Hold #229 costs 10k, hold #36 costs only 1k (numbers are for demonstration only, I didn't actually check), that sort of thing.