08-08-2018, 12:56 PM | #451 | |
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Trade wasn't nearly as significant in 2300 AD as it was in Traveller. The PCs were mostly mercenaries or bounty-hunters or "trouble-shooters" or other roustabouts who did dangerous stuff for money. The mostly travelled as passengers, seldom as crew.
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08-08-2018, 02:59 PM | #452 | |
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Frankly, I saw this setting in terms of colonial competition. Mainly, in my mind, I saw the USA, China, Europe, and maybe India, Indonesia, and Russia, exploring the stars and competing, none to sweetly, for extrasolar territory and resources.
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08-08-2018, 03:03 PM | #453 |
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What if we turn that around? A science fiction setting where a new industrial process (outright startrek-style replicators?) allows the easy manufacturing of anything, including nukes?
So yeah, your society is really unstable, but it rebuilds really quickly too. After all, you can clean up the fallout by converting it back into mass-energy for your replicators! |
08-08-2018, 04:54 PM | #454 |
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The craters caused by pure fusion weapons might be problematic, as might the fact that combatents would likely target replicator facilities during the first salvo to wreck the industrial capacity of their enemies. With pure fusion weapons, you do not even need to have radioactives, you just use helium-3 fusion to release the energy (207 GJ or so per gram released translates to over 49 metric tons of TNT per gram). With a metric ton of helium-3, you could make a Tsar Bomba (which makes the THS cost of $1,000,000 per metric ton of helium-3 really too cheap).
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08-08-2018, 06:19 PM | #455 | |
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08-09-2018, 12:18 PM | #456 |
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Aliens arrive in the Earth's system and open contact. The catch? Their information on humans is based on an unmanned probe which sent messages back a thousand years ago.
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08-09-2018, 01:08 PM | #457 |
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The Worldwar series by Harry Turtledove. The unmanned probe arrived in the fourteenth century, so they sent out their generation-arks with their circa-2000-AD technology to conquer the sword-swinging horse-riding primitives. Instead they arrive at the beginning of World War 2.
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08-09-2018, 03:04 PM | #458 | |
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08-09-2018, 03:13 PM | #459 |
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How is that a catch? It's functionally no different than aliens who arrive without having sent a probe in the first place. Unless they intend to invade and haven't properly prepared because of out of date intel it doesn't make any difference.
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08-09-2018, 03:17 PM | #460 | |
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