From: Captain Joy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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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