On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 09:00:03PM +0100, Onno Meyer wrote: >How realistic is the assumption that the oceans overtake the land >area in importance, anyway?
AFAIR the premise was both undersea farming and undersea mining - you can do quite a lot with ROVs, but sooner or later something's going to break and need to be fixed. It probably depends on the cost of the technology - if it's cheap enough, and resources on land are scarce enough, one could make a case for widespread underwater development. >And disregarding the stated political background, could a combined >transport/combat/research craft find a niche in a corporate-state >cyberpunk world? In that case, it is not really a warship, just armed >for self-defense. Seems unlikely - it's a big fat target. (Cyberpunk to me is about replacing the big expensive stuff - like aircraft carriers and tanks - with relatively cheap and agile stuff like VTOL aircraft and FAVs.) _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
