Oh, I do not think that replicators would seriously reduce the amount of
interstellar travel (because of all the reasons you mentioned), but I still
think that they would very much reduce interstellar trade.
So, while the total number of passengers would hardly be reduced (per-
haps even increased, because more people could afford passages in such
a society ?), the total tonnage of freight would most certainly go down,
and the lives of free traders (a typical SF RPG adventure character type)
would become much less attractive - at least from my point of view.
By the way, are your outsiders the Ringworld "Outsiders" ?
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