[Space] Adapting "Honorverse" Concepts to GURPS

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by warellis

What TL would Honorverse technology be considered to be at? Are they at TL 10 or 11? For instance how would GURPS classify the pulsers which are "gravity"-accelerated mass drivers?

And what of the impeller wedges? They're obviously a superscience tech, but is there any tech level they fit in?

Honorverse is far beyond TL10. It's just light on laser pistols, probably due to power cell tech or something like that.

Honorverse grav guns are very much the TL11^ guns of that name in UT. It's a very clear port. I've even heard that David Pulver may even have suggested to David Weber the idea of gravity-based projectile weapons before the whole series started.

They have a form of TL11^ barrier shields. Space stations without impeller walls can put up "spherical sidewalls". They're just relatively weak compared to the regular sidewalls anchored to the impeller wedges.

Grasers, even huge ones appropriate to SM16 or 17 SDs designed with Spaceships should be TL12.

The Grav Lances are UT TL11^ Gravity Beams though not in portable form.

Those gawdawful missiles, even though they "only" accelerate at 90,000 Gs rather than instantly going to near C speeds till hit their targets at ridiculous ranges in only 1 game Turn on a Spaceships scale greater than point blank so they're effectively Warp Missiles. They're much faster than simple Super Missiles.

The whole distance scale is much grater than anything considered in Spaceships.

Impeller wedges are more like a form of Sub-warp with their 500G accelerations than anything else.