[Space] Steampunk Firefly Idea

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by scc

What exactly is the problem as you see it then?

TL7 space flight technology culminates in the Saturn 5. The Shuttle was designed at TL7 but didn't fly until tL8 and was continually modified at TL8. Neither of them (or anything real at TL7) would allow you to colonize even out Moon (and even if it had a breathable atmosphere).

Also for your early missions you need a VTOL launch and land that can alnd with a full fuel load or somehow make its' own fuel with a Spaceships Refinery module. That's not tL7 (or even 8) either.

This was why I recommended superscience. Steampunk tends to be full of the stuff starting with the power plant of captain Nemo's Nautilus.