Absolutely. There are a handful of key TLs that unlock significant
performance improvements and it's more important to get a lot of worlds to
those levels than to get a few worlds to higher levels. That's why the
Regency approached tech the way they did, investing development in
low-middle stellar rather than high stellar. And there's also the
advantage that tech improvement is not a case of discovering new science
but coaching people to implement science that is already known.
> This thread finally sparked a useful bit of historical trivia in me.
> As memory served fruitfully this time, I recalled the Liberty ships of
> WW2.
> they were neither pretty nor easy to look at, but they WERE pretty
> efficiently constructed. What they where was a testament to the
> distributed
> construction method we have been dancing about on this thread. basically,
> through distributed manufacture of components, and some healthy logistics
> support, a 10,100 ton vessel could go from keelplate to launch in ~ 24
> days. parts would be manufactured from locations as far away as Denver and
> Michigan and shipped via rail to the ports on the west coast and east
> coast
> of the US and assembled in situ. If the RC can manage the logistics,
> smallish starships could be constructed at a very rapid pace. If they were
> willing to downgrade tech on a couple of assembly lines, there is no
> reason
> a fully new Jayhawk at T10 standards could not be produced in bulk. while
> this may not mean so much in the short term, creating a fleet of reliable
> merchant vessels would certainly help spur local trade and tech exchanges.
> sort of a long haul bootstrap operation. Additionally, several worlds
> would
> benefit locally on the assumption it is easier for a tech 8 based culture
> to learn tech 10 gear as opposed to T12 gear. it would require a linear
> shift in education rather than a quantum shift in thinking about the new
> tech levels.
> If construction rates were kept cheap enough, (IMTU, parts built at
> 1~2 TL lower = %less construction time and cost.) new hulls could be built
> tailored to The Schiff of Aubaine. increasing the available number of
> trained crew and its ability to explore and exploit resources normally
> unavailable to RC forces.
>
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_ship
>
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 1:45 AM, [Traveller_TNE] <
> > wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> In the aviation industry they generally use the term "final assembly"
>> when
>> you're doing things like teaching Mitsubishi how to build F-4s and F-15s
>> or Brazil how to build Gripens, by sending them major aircraft
>> components
>> that they are learning how to build from the ground up. "Knockdown kit"
>> probably sounds okay at Oshkosh, but not so much at Le Bourget or
>> Farnborough.
>>
>> > "I'm trying to remember the name of where one factory in a higher tech
>> > nation assembles the key parts, and another nation assembles them."
>> >
>> >
>> > The term is knockdown kit, my first post had a link to a pretty good
>> > wikipedia page describing variations.
>> >
>> >
>> > Davis
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> "Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay
> for
> it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their
> kids pay for it."
>
performance improvements and it's more important to get a lot of worlds to
those levels than to get a few worlds to higher levels. That's why the
Regency approached tech the way they did, investing development in
low-middle stellar rather than high stellar. And there's also the
advantage that tech improvement is not a case of discovering new science
but coaching people to implement science that is already known.
> This thread finally sparked a useful bit of historical trivia in me.
> As memory served fruitfully this time, I recalled the Liberty ships of
> WW2.
> they were neither pretty nor easy to look at, but they WERE pretty
> efficiently constructed. What they where was a testament to the
> distributed
> construction method we have been dancing about on this thread. basically,
> through distributed manufacture of components, and some healthy logistics
> support, a 10,100 ton vessel could go from keelplate to launch in ~ 24
> days. parts would be manufactured from locations as far away as Denver and
> Michigan and shipped via rail to the ports on the west coast and east
> coast
> of the US and assembled in situ. If the RC can manage the logistics,
> smallish starships could be constructed at a very rapid pace. If they were
> willing to downgrade tech on a couple of assembly lines, there is no
> reason
> a fully new Jayhawk at T10 standards could not be produced in bulk. while
> this may not mean so much in the short term, creating a fleet of reliable
> merchant vessels would certainly help spur local trade and tech exchanges.
> sort of a long haul bootstrap operation. Additionally, several worlds
> would
> benefit locally on the assumption it is easier for a tech 8 based culture
> to learn tech 10 gear as opposed to T12 gear. it would require a linear
> shift in education rather than a quantum shift in thinking about the new
> tech levels.
> If construction rates were kept cheap enough, (IMTU, parts built at
> 1~2 TL lower = %less construction time and cost.) new hulls could be built
> tailored to The Schiff of Aubaine. increasing the available number of
> trained crew and its ability to explore and exploit resources normally
> unavailable to RC forces.
>
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_ship
>
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 1:45 AM, [Traveller_TNE] <
> > wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> In the aviation industry they generally use the term "final assembly"
>> when
>> you're doing things like teaching Mitsubishi how to build F-4s and F-15s
>> or Brazil how to build Gripens, by sending them major aircraft
>> components
>> that they are learning how to build from the ground up. "Knockdown kit"
>> probably sounds okay at Oshkosh, but not so much at Le Bourget or
>> Farnborough.
>>
>> > "I'm trying to remember the name of where one factory in a higher tech
>> > nation assembles the key parts, and another nation assembles them."
>> >
>> >
>> > The term is knockdown kit, my first post had a link to a pretty good
>> > wikipedia page describing variations.
>> >
>> >
>> > Davis
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> "Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay
> for
> it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their
> kids pay for it."
>