... This is something that I am still wondering about... In My Opinion, Meson Guns should be available that are smaller than the large 15m^3 / 15 ton...
More "Grrr!" I didn't get to finish the scenario due to players having to leave. When I did reveal to the Öome player what th eorders of his "ally" were, he...
Like all frameworks, it should be constructed to take the stress of the 'load' :-) I'd like to be a GM this time around, and probably will have to be to ...
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IMHO, the solution to the mass unemployment/poverty of the robotics era is simple: birth control. We have a problem at the moment because a large proportion of...
I simply house-ruled that the FGMP power packs were fusion sources rather than fusion generators. They could only contain the fusing plasma for very short...
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My basic argument is that ecological, social, economic, political and military developments have their own TLs, and these are integrated. Therefore they need...
Wealth distribution doesn't work that way now, and neither does enforced birth control. Current slump in birth in developed countries is not due to birth ...
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Why do you say 'uneconomical'? Floating domains start with Gulliver and continue through to Star Wars. Even if countries extend their claims on the seas, that...
... Hmm. The slump in birth rates looks like a global trend (I've heard a prognosis these days that world population will increase only 21% in the next 24...
... That's really hard evidence. :-) ... Yes, of course. It's pretty complex, and often there are more responses than visible on first sight. -- Michael...
How Farmers go to WAR I responded on another topic to an earlier comment on TL progression. The question was raised concerning what this had to do with...
How Factory Workers go to WAR The Second civilization that I described is one in which the vast majority of the population is employed as semi-skilled factory ...
How the Information Age goes to WAR The Third Civilization that I described is one in which computers and automation are common. These people are trained to...
(Hi - I'm a long-time lurker, not nearly as conversant about Striker as the other members, but being a Traveller fan, I am interested in it and follow along...
... I don't know that there _can_ be an extrapolation that satisfies everyone. If you start from now (or 1977) and extrapolate forward, you'll soon either end...
... (Me too!) ... I agree. And just to add to this and hopefully not annoy too many here, I've read many places in canon that TL is an indicator of what is...
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Sorry Greg, I don't see it. Just because wealth distribution doesn't work that way under our current socio-political ideals (or, admittedly, for most of...
You wanted a specific analysis of a specific application of the said magitech. I can't do that. What I'm suggestion, and Matthew also mentioned, is that any ...
In the ancient times farming communities were mostly family-oriented. Its not well known now, but villages grew from a single family hold. Children would build...
I don't know. I already gave an example of farmers in mechanized units in previous post. Most WW1 and 2 armies were infantry for the most part. However this...
Oh I don't know about this either. In combat deployments today most infantry company positions will never see more then two platoons operationg in same...
After the Revolution do not assume that something called a Cossack unit was actually composed of people from rural settlements who grew up around horses. The...