On 8/1/2011 6:08 PM, David Scheidt wrote: > On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 7:08 AM, Onno Meyer <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello everybody, >> >> just a quick thought -- by the rules, a 3E TL5 or TL6 vehicle can >> be sealed, battery-powered, and fitted with limited life support. >> By the rules, that is all you need for a moon buggy, right? >> >> Historical TL6 would have a hard time getting to the moon, but >> there are setting like Traveller with mixed TLs. A settlement >> on a vacuum world could back-slide into TL6, for example. > > Well, sure. TL6 has submarines, which are air tight. > > What TL6 doesn't have are any of the technologies for closed loop > systems. So a colony that lost its tech would be dead as soon as > things broke down. I suspect that would happen before the desire to > build inefficient vehicles came on.
They could be surviving as a weird mix of TL 6+2. Or maybe there's enough spare equipment lying around that they manage to scavenge and jury-rig repair enough of it to keep going. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
