[Spaceships] Ornithopter Wings no longer TL5+2!

[vicky_molokh]

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

Yeah, I agree that ornithopters for Spacecraft is purely "clockpunk" (and really only makes sense with luminferous ether or something anyway). Is vicky arguing that ornithopter powered spacecraft are TL9 or merely that practical (non-novelty) ornithopters are?

Actually, I wouldn't want to argue that they are practical*. Just that the drivetrain itself is not necessarily a divergent-TL one. Now, the issues of practical size and mass are another matter - craft with inflated hot air balloons don't fit the G:SS standards of mass/size either.

* == Actually, I'm pretty sure some stuff in G:SS is impractical. I recall some jet/turbine was in every way better than another, no worse in cost, and no higher in TL.