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From: "Onno Meyer" <[email protected]>
To: "The GURPSnet mailing list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2008 10:56 PM
Subject: Re: [gurps] Sub Trek
Tom replied to Jay who replied to me:
>> The SeaQuest episodes had the look and feel of an
>> underwater Star
>> Trek - you have one ship, supposedly one of many but we
>> don't get
>> to see the rest of the fleet, doing a mixture of
>> scientific, diplomatic
>> and combat missions.
seaquest DSV was a protype
The biggest and best, but not the only ship of the UEO, right?
I agree, there could of been some unexplained technology that the ship
had
to deal with the deep ocean pressures like star trek warp drive?
This would be the bioshell (or whatever it was called) that armoured the
vessel.
There are basically two ways to deal with pressure:
(1) Live under pressure and adapt the body to it.
(2) Use a pressure-proof hull and keep the internal pressure normal.
Option (1) runs into biological limits once you want to go deep, or
change depth quickly, unless you do fairly drastic changes. GURPS
Bio-Tech talks about it (at least G3E Bio-Tech does, my new one is
on loan to a friend). The wonder tech could be gengineered
symbiotes or nanites in the body to patch cells and manage the
pressure changes.
Option (2) can be made to work, witness the Bathyscape or Alvin,
but it makes it impossible to go out in unarmored suits. The wonder
tech would be simply strong but lightweight materials for all subs
and their subcraft. TL8 or TL9 advanced armor might do the job.
Option (2) sounds better to me, if you accept that below a certain
depth all EVA is in armored suits.
& this is actually how it was handled, with the exception of the Dolphin(s),
Michael DeLuise's character [the guy with the gill implants] & some
Genetically Engineered "Sea People" in the episode where Cmdr Ford was
testing a Diving Hardsuit for excessive depths.
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