[World Building] A Future History of Space Force

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Originally Posted by Fred Brackin

Why? The OP wants warships for 2120+ and we're on the edge of TL9 with no sign of anyone building any space combatants.

Actually, I'm pretty sure OP asked for a fictional history of space force, in the future. I responded with some data about *current* and near-future(in this decade) capabilities, and you're talking about 2120+ and lasers. What about the 2030s, 2040s, 2050s? Doesn't it make sense that capabilities would evolve from what is current, what is on the drawing board? There are current space based combative systems, it is a warfighting domain, and every indication is that it's going to get much more active.

This seems to be a consistent problem with science fiction settings, in that they want to jump straight into the lasers and railguns and fusion drives, but don't spend any real time thinking about the dramatic changes on the horizon. 20 years ago, when our dreams of spaceflight were breaking up over texas, and we were forced to bribing Roscosmos to put us into space, that could be understandable. But that was two decades ago, and the picture of what is happening is a lot different than it was.