[gurps] TL10 ocean going

[Roger Burton West]

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 03:16:32PM -0800, Captain Joy wrote:
>What would TL10 sea-going vessels be like?  Specifically, on 50 year old TL10(11) colony on a world that has 95% hydrographic 
>coverage?  This is a Star Trek (30 years before the original series) universe. I've set the Federation tech level at 11^ with 
>medical tech at 9.

On a world like that, I'd expect to see some very massive storms - so
the big ships may well be submarines, with nuclear or chemical power
plants depending on size. I seem to remember that supercavitation is
fairly practical at TL10, so the small fast ones will use that.

Of course, they may have weather control up and running, in which case
they might go for surface ships of various sorts - SWATH, perhaps.

R