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All I know is that Lucifer-5 was also apparently featured in Suppressed Transmissions as "Reality Tunguska" in the "Worldbuilding With Extra Pulp" and "The Sky Is Falling" articles. Quote:
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11-04-2017, 06:44 PM | #22 |
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Re: GURPS Lucifer-5?
It was probably Phil Masters wanting to write it. What it would take for Lucifer-5 is another reliable author wanting to do that setting.
Until that happens I did start a brief thread about the setting a few years ago. http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread.php?t=130081 I probably have a few more details I've come up with since if anyone is interested.
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Do you think tanks or armored vehicles for war would undergo differences due to the possibility of having to move them through space to other worlds? |
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Then you get transportation advancements though some of those may be going into rocket engines at the expense of internal combustion. Given the way the hot reactionless thruster has to work for other purposes in this setting what I would anticipate sub-sonic "battlewagons" like an HMS Dreadnought that flew with much gushing of flame out of its' underside. Creation of these would pre-empt tank development very thoroughly and troopship equivalents would probably greatly shorten the infantry battlefield. something like a heavily armored Huey (with a big Flash Gordon-like aesthetic) might result. I really can't se anyone who has access to such a vehicle ever being very interested in tracked or wheeled combat vehicles for any environment. Troops trying to dis-embark from one of these in a hurry could get by with a much shorter range weapon but would very much like a handier one. So a full size Pederson rifle wouldn't be quite right. To try and evolve a pre-existing weapon into what they would actually want (which might not be what they thought they wanted) I would take the Remington 08 semi-automatic rifle (in either .30 or .35 Remington) and ruggedize it and give it a larger detachable magazine and full auto capability. The result would be very much like an AK-47 only rather earlier. Alternatively, bring an altered M-1 Carbine along earlier.
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Britannica-6 was also a specific Steampunk setting, not just Infinite Worlds, so was of interest to a larger number of GURPS players. |
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11-05-2017, 09:32 AM | #27 | |
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You might eventually see winged rockets instead of brute force lifters but not airplanes as they existed in OTL. Those are one of the things that get totally leapfrogged. A general technophilia and radical change in how wars would be fought almost certainly accelerate the pace of personal weapons development. I don't know that they'd end up in the same place we have though. A path towards evolved firearms that I didn't not mention last night is scaling up velocity wise from sub-machineguns. Our Soviets started on that path when they began hotloading the Mauser 7.63 for use in the PPSh-41. A few hundred feet per second more and they'd pass the P- barrier.
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It’s sold moderately well, so I imagine someone could get a proposal for another such project past Steven. Who knows, one day, the fancy might take me. But it’s not such a moneyspinner that I’m going to spend all my time on those things, and nobody else seems to be even trying.
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Also since you're here, do you know what is meant by "holy flame" here in this bit from Azoth-7?: Quote:
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11-05-2017, 06:31 PM | #30 |
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Re: GURPS Lucifer-5?
There's no direct path from the tech boosts in energy and propulsion to materials sciences and you don't see even vaguely effective body armor in our timeline til late TL7. You'd need something from Martian bio-tech or something else found on Venus to boost their body armor technology.
Either would be possible but Martian bioplastic would be not reproducible on Earth for a significant period of time. Venus could produce extremely strong "spider silk" that could be made into the material Gurps sometimes calls "Arachnoweave". I had already pegged Venus as the source for "veetex" the unimaginatively named "Venusian latex" that the setting would use to produce the equivalent of TL9 Skin suits from UT. Those would be needed for the large number of spacesuits used in constructing the many projects that are canonical across the Solar System. Indirect links tot he tech boosts could be seen in use of energy hungry metals production for aluminum and then titanium. Those could be used to replace all the steel I put in my sample rocket but would not be likely to revolutionize body armor.
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