Quoting this from SB.com, because it's also relevant here, and I'm still tired:
Too tired right now to give good replies. One thing I will say that I meant to say earlier is that due to the end of the TOS episode 'A Piece of the Action,' a lot of
Star Trek fans believe that Treknology should be easy to reverse engineer (the crew thought it plausible that the Iotians would figure out how the transtator works from McCoy's communicator, despite the communicator being 23rd century tech, and the Iotian tech-base being around the 1920s or '30s). Also, I mentioned DARPA working on warp coils, but not Starship Enterprises, or the various independent groups with an interest in Treknology. That was a mistake, because they would be, but I skipped over them when trying to explain why the warp coils were widespread on Earth-1. Sorry.
Incidentally, is anyone getting
warp coil and
warp core mixed up? It occurred to me that some people might.
Oh, yeah, important note for '-punk' tech: It isn't just tech that diverges from the 'normal' path. A lot of it is magitech, aka technurgy or technomagic. It works because magic is being applied to it to make it work better in some way, whether by binding spirits to it (making it a fetish, which has it's own issues), or by using 'natural' magical materials (something Earth-2 and Earth-5 have in abundance, while they're rather less common on the other Earths, generally based on how long that Earth has had magic). I had to do that because a lot of the tech in Dieselpunk/Steampunk/Clockpunk stories, as well as even the less silly comics, literally could not work as well as it does (or sometimes at all) in those stories, and I wanted to avoid having too many 'unicorns in the garden.'
Sorry if this is lacking coherency, and for any important questions left unanswered. Hoping to be less tired later.
On another note:
Quote:
Originally Posted by maximara
"You are now entering...."
The Detail
Arnold Goldstein went over the ship a third time. Heat ray worked as did the inviable legs though the matter dissolving ray had been a bust, and he was sure the force field wouldn't hold up to an atomic bomb and wasn't to sure about heavy artillery but given his mission he doubted he would need that.
He could move the ship around on the ground but not take off. He had missed the early part 1954 movie but the "Martians" had to been able to fly through space. That was how they got to Earth darn it.
His grandfather had died in 1943 in one of these Death Camps and he suspected that Nazis were still planning on killing a lot of 'inferiors.' Even if they had stopped the Martian War Machine would end the war even faster.
Grumbling he checked the mail box and smiled as he pulled the Netflix DVD. Now he would have his answer on how the Martians left Mars...and how he would leave this Earth.
After watching the early part of the movie he realized that he had missed the key detail that doomed his plan from the start: the Martian War Machines were incapable of flight much less space travel. They had to travel inside meteorite like devices and there was no clue on how those were launched. It would take time to even begin and it was time he no longer had.
'It is often said that the Devil is in the details. A phrase Mr. Goldstein has learned all too well.'
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Do you want to post this to the fiction thread on SB.com? It looks good, and isn't in need of editing beyond the red bold bits a put in the quote box (id est, adding quotes around the word 'inferiors' (you can use single quotes or double quotes if you wish, I just don't see a Jewish man thinking of them like that without a qualifier) and correcting the word 'fight' to 'flight' - unless 'flight' wasn't what you meant, in which case I'm confused, but as noted, am tired).