DataPacRat replied to me: > The whole story covered around, mm, 5-6 years; I don't recall exactly, > but there was about 1-3 years of development time before the Pigeons > were deployed.
Neighbourhoods full of terrorists, for several years? Shouldn't you call them secessionist governments, then? > >> If such an enemy tank gets within range to lob shells at the base - > >> then friendly artillery hasn't been doing its job... <ahem> > > > > Have you looked at the railgun of my sample tank? > > You mean the 20-30km range? Yes. It was designed as a high-power kinetic weapon, but the side effect is an impressive range with shells. > That matches some other areas I want to push in this setting - the > differences between oligarchs who want to control others and > freedom-lovers who just want to be able to control themselves and > their own property. I'm rather cynic about those freedom-lovers, too. Privatize profit, socialize losses. Man is a social being, if that is ignored then politics and society are working on incomplete assumptions. > Surveillance vs sousveillance, copyright/patent > watchdog software vs self-replicating 3D printers, wiretapping vs mesh > networking, and so on. > When the oligarchs in charge have to switch gears from merely > destroying their enemies abroad to trying to control people in their > own territory... things could get rather interesting. If the oligarchs are allowed to kill terrorists, and to define who is a terrorist, nobody is safe from their UAVs -- if the guys who operate the systems take orders. Regards, Onno _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
