08-11-2020, 01:55 PM | #101 |
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Re: Star Wars Stormtroopers in Real Armor [Ultratech]
Ewoks are a mature TL 3 society, but due to living on a moon and not a planet with a dense planetary core, have little access to bronze or iron, and never had a metallurgical revolution.
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08-11-2020, 01:58 PM | #102 | |
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But the Ewoks are hardly playing out of a (pre)historical TL0 toolkit.
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08-11-2020, 01:59 PM | #103 | |
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08-11-2020, 02:04 PM | #104 |
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Re: Star Wars Stormtroopers in Real Armor [Ultratech]
They have also encountered high-tech civilizations, so probably cribbed a few ideas from what they observed.
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08-11-2020, 02:13 PM | #105 | |
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And some of the cartoon have them using pretty good rope, enough to capture and haul 2 stormtrooper quite high. But Low-tech p23 have pretty good ropes for TL0 They do have some rope based TL1 tech : lariat grapnels iirc ladders and rope ladders And the hang glider ... TL 4 or 5 ? The ewoks we see are mostly tl0, I agree, but with some TL1-2 (3?) techs well established, and a few outliers. Mostly, they lack metal. Also, we saw one village, mostly made of refugee from a destroyed campement/village ... we don't have the full picture. Last edited by Celjabba; 08-11-2020 at 02:25 PM. |
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08-11-2020, 03:10 PM | #106 |
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Re: Star Wars Stormtroopers in Real Armor [Ultratech]
The Ewoks appear to be TL(Tribal)^, in much the same way that GURPS Dungeon Fantasy is pretty much TL(Olden Tymes)^.
If I were going to stick actual numbers to them, though, it would probably be something like 'TL(0+3)^, advanced in Flight,' or 'TL3^, primitive in Metallurgy, advanced in Flight.'
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08-11-2020, 03:24 PM | #107 | |
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Transportation: while we don't see a lot in RotJ, other sources show them with riding animals, cards, and gliders. TL 3 solidly, maybe 3+2 if you count gliders. However I don't know that gliders are more of an aberration in transportation that boomerangs are for weapons among Earth's Australians. Weapons and Armor: We see mostly TL 0 equivalents, but traps and catapults with TL 3 features. So TL 0+3, due to lack of metallurgy. Power: I don't see any major power production. Just going by the village we see in RotJ and the Ewok movies, definitely at least TL 2. I don't know if they have windmill technology or anything similar. Biotech: Effective first aid and seemingly some herbal remedies, so easily TL 2. I have no idea what their anatomical knowledge is, but they can certainly do a number on stormtroopers so probably more than rudimentary. No canon evidence of prosthetics. I feel pretty comfortable with overall TL 3, probably only TL 2 for Power and 0+3 for weapons due to metallurgy. And they have lots of genius inventing going on. EDIT: At least in principle, it looks like TL 3 gliding is possible, but never took off on our Earth: Eilmer of Malmesburty, 11th century monk and weird genius Last edited by pawsplay; 08-11-2020 at 03:28 PM. |
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08-11-2020, 04:18 PM | #108 | |
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(The ruse to get the shield generator door open.)
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08-11-2020, 04:21 PM | #109 |
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Overacting. And of course, feigned retreat is a hard trick to make work.
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08-11-2020, 05:09 PM | #110 |
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Re: Star Wars Stormtroopers in Real Armor [Ultratech]
Because most of the legion was outside; the people in the generator room would know that the legion was having major difficulties outside; so, reinforcing the troops in the generator room in case "the worse" happens makes sense.
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