----- Original Message -----
From: "Onno Meyer" <[email protected]>
To: "The GURPSnet mailing list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 9:00 AM
Subject: [gurps] Sub Trek
I don't have all of SeaQuest, and if I had it I probably wouldn't have
the time to watch them for clues, but with the Marauder Suit nearing
completion I started to think about what I could recall.
[snip]
But what about Earth? If the UEO had the resources for one ship
the size of the SeaQuest, why couldn't they cover the oceans with
specialized vessels?
Of course there is pretty much conflict. Perhaps the UEO got tired
of detaching warships to cover their unarmed craft, and turned to
armed merchantmen/armed research cruisers instead.
The UEO didn't build it, the USN did, as a Combat vessel, it was converted
to a multi-role vessel towards the end of construction when it was decided
to give it to the UEO.
How realistic is the assumption that the oceans overtake the land
area in importance, anyway?
That didn't actually get shown per se until the 3rd season, which was
essentially a completely different, more cyberpunk show, before that the UEO
is concievably only shown as hugely powerful because of the Aquatic focus of
the show. In season 3 the Oceans are more important because some Lunatic
(the seaons Big Bad Ugly) had developed a process for liquefying landmasses
for resource extraction, by shooting them with Torpedos... & had already hit
a fair percentage of the above water targets.
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.
Essentially true. It's gunboat diplomacy.
[snip]
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