01-12-2010, 04:40 PM | #11 |
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I wrestled with this for my own Star Wars campaign. I agree with David Johnson's assessment that the Star Wars Galaxy is a TL11^ SafeTech society. There have been a handful of TL12^ advancements (contragravity and disintegrators [disruptors in SW lingo]), but these are few and very far between.
Also, don't forget that the tech level of the galaxy has been stagnant, if not regressed slightly, over the last 4,000 (or more) years. Much of this has been attributed, rightfully or not, to a Jedi being Chancellor of the Senate throughout much of the first 3,000 years of that era (according to EU sources).
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Since nobody identifiably survived getting shot by a blaster that wasn't set on stun, that's hard to assess.
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01-12-2010, 04:57 PM | #13 |
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And I'm saying that not only are you wrong, but even if you were right, it still wouldn't matter, because the superscience of Star Wars is routinely and ubiquitously used in their culture in a myriad of ways, and they have a living standard which reflects that. When superscience is used like in the comic books, it doesn't raise the ambient tech level because it's only used to empower heros and villains. When superscience is used like in Tom Swift, it doesn't raise the ambient tech level, because it's only one prototype not implemented in the culture as a whole until some nebulous future date. But Star Wars has many different super science technologies being used casually by everyone, even by the desperately poor by their standards.
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01-12-2010, 05:04 PM | #14 | |
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01-12-2010, 05:14 PM | #15 | |
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Disruptor technology is nearly universally banned, and only really available at outrageous prices through the black market/Hutts' criminal cartels. I think someone at either Marvel or Dark Horse based them off Vader's comment to Fett, "No disintegrations!", and they got picked up for the RPGs. Repulsorlift/contragravity is common enough to be used on the LAAT/i and LAAT/c gunships in the Prequel Trilogy, and explaining how a fightercraft as aerodynamic as the Y-Wing can maneuver in an atmosphere. (Indeed, it also explains how the X-Wing and Y-Wing can be VTOL craft without obvious thrusters angled downwards.)
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01-12-2010, 05:22 PM | #16 | |
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On the contragravity issue, the snow speeders used on Hoth don't appear to be ground-effect vehicles, and most of the ships are VTOL, despite the engine nacelles pointing horizontally. |
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01-12-2010, 06:41 PM | #17 |
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I have always seen Star Wars as a TL 0-11 :P.
Like the Ewoks are TL 1-2 While most Tech in the world is super science and very hard to place them in a one category.
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01-12-2010, 06:46 PM | #18 | |
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landspeeders speeder bikes x-wings lifting off in the yavin base cloud city jabba's space barge In Star Wars universe speak it is called repulsorlift and is specifically described as the manipulation of gravity fields to allow floatation/lift.
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01-12-2010, 07:25 PM | #19 | |
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01-12-2010, 07:34 PM | #20 | |
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Among more traditional machines, the Falcon's computer is capable of calculating a path through interstellar hyperspace in five minutes or less, as well as "conversing" with Threepio to suggest what might be wrong with the ship. Again, not something to try with your Dell laptop. (Though admittedly, converying diagnostic information to another computer IS something that can be accomplished by most modern automobiles.)
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