[gurps] Heinlein Battlesuits

[Onno Meyer]

> Even jump assisted, we can get an idea of what it takes to launch one's
> self into a LONG hang time jump.  If the speed of a battlesuit already
> allows the user to launch itself into the air for a 15 second "jump"
> duration, then we can ignore that aspect for an actual battle suit.  I
> recall trying to build a battlesuit using what amounted to TL 8 maybe TL 9
> technology since it wasn't too far from our current technology.  As has
> been noted however, many sci-fi writers will write what looks good without
> paying attention to what SJGames has set up for their tech level scheme. 
> Then again?  Since Heinlein predates SJGames, perhaps we should have
> worked it into our rules instead ;)
> 
> (as usual, tongue in cheek observations...)

Seriously speaking, the GURPS 3E technology path goes something like 
now, cyberpunk, easy interplanetary travel, easy interstellar travel. So
by the time you get to fight aliens, you're TWO TLs beyond cyberpunk. 

A lot of SF has interstellar travel without a better-than-cyberpunk tech,
even if it isn't 50s pre-computer stuff.