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**50-80 years old?
 
**50-80 years old?
 
*Terraforming
 
*Terraforming
**How far?
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**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
**What does it involve?
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**Pinpointed various suitable locations via telescope; later investigations turned up more habitable locations.
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**Artifacts point to prior settlement, but they're badly weathered and impossible to identify with any detail
 
*Personal weaponry?
 
*Personal weaponry?
**Pistols?
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**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.
**Swords?
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**No swords. Utility knives are reasonably common; may have greater cultural importance for certain nations.
*Communications - Using interstellar travel tech, can inter-system messages defeat the speed of light? A medium speed of telegram would be nice -- nothing instantaneous between worlds, but still a good speed
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*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
**Intersystem comms are expensive, so no direct connections to planetary based comms?
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**Interstellar coms are as interrupted as they need to be by the war
**IS comms and Pcomms use dufferent systems/formats and can't directly patch one into the other?
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**Planetary comms are a bit more reliable; some are wired, some are satellite, many are a little of each
** --> [[To-do]]: do some quick study on 50s-60s telecom
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**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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Revision as of 23:05, 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.