Johannes replied to me: > Wars are a good possibility, though that should also lead to plenty of > military wrecks. On the other hand self destruct mechanisms might have > been common in military ships, but not in civilian ones, so it might be > way more civilan ships surviving as wrecks suitable for archeology.
Hello Johannes, numbers could help here, again. How many cars in the world, and how many tanks? Even if tanks started to wreck each other, odds are that more cars end up as collateral damage than AFVs become intentional damage ... > You could also have large discrepancies between real space and hyper space > distances, and the players empire might be at one point relativly close to > the researched empire in real space (but still too fat to do any > meaningfull contact), while the empires are far away of each other in > hyperspace. Jump lines could be completely separate from real astrography. Wormholes as shortcuts between worlds hundreds of parsec apart. Regards, Onno _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
