> Pauli wrote: > >> Then again, at real world TL5 powered submarines weren't around >> either.. This is obviously a fictional design for a fictional >> setting. In Traveller, low tech worlds are not at all unaware >> of higher TL developments, and may well attempt to use different >> lower tech means to reach what would usually be considered a higher >> tech end - Like a gasoline powered cargo submarine. >> >> Just because it wasn't built in real world history, does not >> necessarily mean that it could not have been built in an alternate >> timeline.. > > 3E TL5 ranges from 1701 to 1900. There is a world of > difference between those two extremes. Just consider > 1860s and 1890s warships.
I was in Portsmouth a couple of months ago, at the shipyards they have HMS Victory who fought her last battle in 1805 and HMS Warrior, launched in the 1860s. Victory has a wooden hull, sail power and muzzle loading smoothbore cannon. Warrior has an iron hull, steam powered screws and some of her guns are breechloading rifled cannon. Warrior also has steam powered washing machines! Yet both are TL5. Gareth -- |\_/| Gareth L Owen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o o) Man in Black, heretic and itinerant DBA \_/ MSN IM ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
