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Old 09-15-2017, 12:41 PM   #487
Flyndaran
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Default Re: Catalog of the Weird Parallels

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Originally Posted by Fred Brackin View Post
Hpmeline is far ahead of us in aerospace tech.

See p.14 where Special Operations has conveyors built into "armored TL9 Icarus sub-orbital VTOL gunships". One of these can deliver up to 24 fully equipped Spec Ops division soldiers and all their gear anywhere on Earth(s) within 4 hours. That probably includes fuelling and mission planning.

Just "armored" and "VTOL gunship" is about 2 steps beyond us. Adding the "sub-orbital" is a lot farther than that.
A couple manned TL 9 sub-orbitals ships is far more capability than I thought, but still well below major institutionalized project.
Meh, not much change. I guess it's been too long since I read the black ops ultra tech sections of the Infinite Worlds book. My mistake.
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