[gurps] Sub Trek

[Roger Burton West]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 09:00:03PM +0100, Onno Meyer wrote:

>How realistic is the assumption that the oceans overtake the land 
>area in importance, anyway?

AFAIR the premise was both undersea farming and undersea mining - you
can do quite a lot with ROVs, but sooner or later something's going to
break and need to be fixed. It probably depends on the cost of the
technology - if it's cheap enough, and resources on land are scarce
enough, one could make a case for widespread underwater development.

>And disregarding the stated political background, could a combined
>transport/combat/research craft find a niche in a corporate-state 
>cyberpunk world? In that case, it is not really a warship, just armed
>for self-defense.

Seems unlikely - it's a big fat target. (Cyberpunk to me is about
replacing the big expensive stuff - like aircraft carriers and tanks -
with relatively cheap and agile stuff like VTOL aircraft and FAVs.)