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Old 01-12-2019, 10:22 AM   #8
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Default Re: [Basic] Disadvantage of the Week: Increased Life Support

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Originally Posted by Vaevictis Asmadi View Post
OK, but I'm asking specifically about a setting with no high-tech and no magical life-support. Real world historical low-tech.
It's very unlikely to come up in such a case. But not quite impossible. Say you have a race of sapient aquatic beings that suffocate in air. It wouldn't take more than TL 1 or 2 to provide a water tank for them to travel in. It would be massively heavy (32 cubic feet of water per ton) and would limit their mobility, but I think it could be done.

But ordinarily you'd use this with alien races at substantially higher TL, maybe TL 7 at a minimum.
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