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Old 10-03-2017, 09:30 AM   #40
malloyd
 
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Default Re: [Ultra-Tech] What would naval warfare at TL10 look like?

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One thought, presumably the TL 10 landscape will include more undersea habitation, mining fish farms and so forth. Floating islands could also exist depending on the setting. Navies acting in a support role for undersea infantry operations would presumably be a function.
There is a lot of setting dependence in any military force. For instance a lot of TL 10 settings have an interstellar component, and the stuff you need on colony worlds where the navy's primary job is stopping the colonists (all of whom are Terran Federation citizens) from pirating each other's "exotic spice" shipments, which move by locally manufactured sailboat, is pretty different than the one you want on the post-Greenhouse Earth where everybody lives in underwater domes belonging to hostile city-states.
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