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Old 08-03-2011, 09:39 AM   #5
Fred Brackin
 
Join Date: Aug 2007
Default Re: REinventing Barsoom: 3 — relict hard technology

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So, I'm going to go through Ultra-Tech and sort out what is available on Világ.[list][*] One sorting principle is that the superscience is all out. Everything has to be plausible when looked at closely.
Observation 1 is that TL10 is a litle low for Clarkian stuff.

Ob 2 is that plausible in 1917 and 2011 are different things.

As an example, magnetic levitation without maglev rails is junk now but prefectly plausible then.

I can think of little in UT hard science TL10 that would either be Clarkian or still functional 5000 years later.

I can only suggest that things your TL8 players might recognize as "3-dimensional solid state devices" might be taken as "regulating crystals" by your early TL6 characters. I think crystal radios were more than novelties in 1917.
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