On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Susan Koziel <[email protected]> wrote:
> Alternately - reality TV. The start of so many crazy 'I converted the X from > the junk yard into a Y' type vehicles. > -Sue (A little late to the discussion, but here goes): There's also the Warhammer 40.000 explanation, which would allow you to make this at a higher tech level. A lot of the human tanks and such in that setting look a lot like construction or agricultural vehicles, to the point that "bulldozer blade" is a common accessory. The reason for this is that they originally were construction and agricultural vehicles! Their designs have been extracted from ancient ultra-tech blueprint databases sent along with colonists in better, more enlightened times. To make it easier for them to bootstrap those colonies, these designs were made to be very adaptable and easy to build even with a poor technological base. And now, thousands of years later, the decaying and superstitious Imperium of Man has to use weaponized bulldozers as the bulk of its tank force because it has neither the technical expertise nor the access to an uncorrupted database that would be required to extract actual tank blueprints. -- Bira http://compexplicita.tumblr.com _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
