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Originally Posted by fchase8
I love the idea of the superscience Lucifer-5 still having nineteenth century medicine. All those atomic torch ships and rayguns are going to create some injuries, .
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Lucifer-5 doesn't have rayguns (yet). They still have to be created by Mad Science. I would nominate Flamers from UT. They're sort of the reverse of the torch drives. Instead of thrust with only token amounts of heat and light you get the beams of concentrated heat without being better rocket engines than weapons.
A likely predecessor would be an "astronium torch" which would be like one of the plasma torches in UT. Cinematically large ones could be used to carve tunnels into all those inhabited asteroids and airless moons.
There's no reason for medical tech to be any worse than 1908 level and that's late enough for the Victorian paradigm to be almost totally broken. They'd have antiseptic medicine, surgery with decent anesthetics and x-rays.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeli...0.E2.80.931899
......hits the high spots. Most of what you might think of as "Victorian medicine" does not survive the end of Gurps TL5. Indeed, medicine may be the best reason to draw the starting line of the next TL at 1880.