Matt--
Yeah, that was the intent, and it sounds increasingly clear from your and
other recent responses that the intent was conveyed in the materials. I
know this would be in my working materials and would eventually have been
published, but I'm wondering if the published designs included discussion
or notes about, "higher tech XX is limited to YY performance by lower-tech
ZZ supporting systems." I've got all these materials, but I never have it
all unpacked at the same time, and I'm not in a position to create a
full-blown TNE archaeological site at the moment.
Dave
> Dave
> I got the impression from the published material that the Clippers in
> particular were built at varying tech levels from hull structure and
> modules to the J drives and weapons. Wasn't there a few multimission
> ships that were built with drop in, lower tech modules as well?
>
> Matt
>
>
> ---In , <dcndcn13@...> wrote :
>
> I don't know if this was clear in the published materials, but RC ships
> were definitely intended to be built the way you describe, big hulls
> built
> as economically and at the lowest TLs possible, with key
> force-multiplying
> systems (jump drives, power plants, computers, sensors, weapons, etc.)
> dropped in from higher TLs so the higher-tech worlds could focus their
> labor force on manufacturing key technologies that would be used
> elsewhere. If that wasn't clear it was probably because we had to
> publish
> ships that followed the "classic" approach of an entire ship being
> manufactured at a single tech level as examples of the normal approach.
> There were also limitations on plug-and-play, as you can't drop a TL 15
> computer onto a TL 10 network with a TL 12 databus and expect to get
> full
> TL 15 performance out of it.
>
> But the idea of maximizing production efficiency was embedded in a bunch
> of places, the one I'm thinking of right now is in the Covenant of
> Suffren
> where the waterworld had a big submarine hull industry that was going to
> provide a lot of help in producing kludgy spaceships. Going down an
> atmosphere is a lot easier than going up one atmosphere per 10 meters,
> the
> problem would be that off-the-shelf submarine hulls would be heavier
> than
> necessary, but they should have good G performance, and you could get
> SDBs
> or starships that look like Star Trek's SS Botany Bay.
>
>
>
>
>
Yeah, that was the intent, and it sounds increasingly clear from your and
other recent responses that the intent was conveyed in the materials. I
know this would be in my working materials and would eventually have been
published, but I'm wondering if the published designs included discussion
or notes about, "higher tech XX is limited to YY performance by lower-tech
ZZ supporting systems." I've got all these materials, but I never have it
all unpacked at the same time, and I'm not in a position to create a
full-blown TNE archaeological site at the moment.
Dave
> Dave
> I got the impression from the published material that the Clippers in
> particular were built at varying tech levels from hull structure and
> modules to the J drives and weapons. Wasn't there a few multimission
> ships that were built with drop in, lower tech modules as well?
>
> Matt
>
>
> ---In , <dcndcn13@...> wrote :
>
> I don't know if this was clear in the published materials, but RC ships
> were definitely intended to be built the way you describe, big hulls
> built
> as economically and at the lowest TLs possible, with key
> force-multiplying
> systems (jump drives, power plants, computers, sensors, weapons, etc.)
> dropped in from higher TLs so the higher-tech worlds could focus their
> labor force on manufacturing key technologies that would be used
> elsewhere. If that wasn't clear it was probably because we had to
> publish
> ships that followed the "classic" approach of an entire ship being
> manufactured at a single tech level as examples of the normal approach.
> There were also limitations on plug-and-play, as you can't drop a TL 15
> computer onto a TL 10 network with a TL 12 databus and expect to get
> full
> TL 15 performance out of it.
>
> But the idea of maximizing production efficiency was embedded in a bunch
> of places, the one I'm thinking of right now is in the Covenant of
> Suffren
> where the waterworld had a big submarine hull industry that was going to
> provide a lot of help in producing kludgy spaceships. Going down an
> atmosphere is a lot easier than going up one atmosphere per 10 meters,
> the
> problem would be that off-the-shelf submarine hulls would be heavier
> than
> necessary, but they should have good G performance, and you could get
> SDBs
> or starships that look like Star Trek's SS Botany Bay.
>
>
>
>
>