[gurps] Re: TL10 ocean going

[Jeff Wilson]

> From: Captain Joy <captainjoy at mac.com>

> 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.

Hugely depends on transporters; if available, they'll replace all bulk 
shipping and mass travel local to the planet, leaving only small 
submersible personal and scouting craft and large, mobile bases or 
possibly just one base. Stargate Atlantis's city-starship and 
puddlejumpers are close relatives of this sort of thing. The base would 
likely be similar to the saucer section of a Starfleet vessel, which are 
canonically separable and submersible; in fact, this colony world might 
be the result of such an occurrence during a war.

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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
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