Difference between revisions of "Technology"
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**50-80 years old? | **50-80 years old? | ||
*Terraforming | *Terraforming | ||
− | ** | + | **These peoples don't terraform; they've encountered a cluster of star systems with multiple habitable planets (varying degrees of comfortable life support) which some science experts say show evidence of having been terraformed |
− | ** | + | **Pinpointed various suitable locations via telescope; later investigations turned up more habitable locations. |
+ | **Artifacts point to prior settlement, but they're badly weathered and impossible to identify with any detail | ||
*Personal weaponry? | *Personal weaponry? | ||
− | **Pistols | + | **Pistols of some kind; maybe have ammunition with self-contained shock thrower, like rubber bullets that expend an electrical shock on contact. Still not sure how I feel about that. |
− | ** | + | **No swords. Utility knives are reasonably common; may have greater cultural importance for certain nations. |
− | *Communications - | + | *Communications - The war can provide an easy excuse for things not being instantaneous. Some messages have to be relayed by ship comms from pilot to tower to pilot; being done as a courtesy in some cases, but some captains are trying to turn a profit |
− | ** | + | **Interstellar coms are as interrupted as they need to be by the war |
− | **IS comms and Pcomms use | + | **Planetary comms are a bit more reliable; some are wired, some are satellite, many are a little of each |
− | + | **IS comms and Pcomms use different systems/formats; receivers can be the same, but the systems that transfer data are different. | |
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[[Category:Technology]] | [[Category:Technology]] |
Revision as of 22:05, 2 April 2013
Oh, this'll be fun -- what flavor? Let's start a list.
- Interstellar travel - routine enough to be like air travel in the 1930s.
- 50-80 years old?
- Terraforming
- These peoples don't terraform; they've encountered a cluster of star systems with multiple habitable planets (varying degrees of comfortable life support) which some science experts say show evidence of having been terraformed
- Pinpointed various suitable locations via telescope; later investigations turned up more habitable locations.
- Artifacts point to prior settlement, but they're badly weathered and impossible to identify with any detail
- Personal weaponry?
- Pistols of some kind; maybe have ammunition with self-contained shock thrower, like rubber bullets that expend an electrical shock on contact. Still not sure how I feel about that.
- No swords. Utility knives are reasonably common; may have greater cultural importance for certain nations.
- Communications - The war can provide an easy excuse for things not being instantaneous. Some messages have to be relayed by ship comms from pilot to tower to pilot; being done as a courtesy in some cases, but some captains are trying to turn a profit
- Interstellar coms are as interrupted as they need to be by the war
- Planetary comms are a bit more reliable; some are wired, some are satellite, many are a little of each
- IS comms and Pcomms use different systems/formats; receivers can be the same, but the systems that transfer data are different.