Johannes replied to me: > Animal drawn vehicles of any kind would be purely recreational or vehicles in > a high tech setting i assume.
Recreational or ceremonial, and ceremonial can blend into propaganda use. > Also in canon SG Goa'uld equipment looks like antique equipment (a spear) > but works as high tech (ray gun), even though it is not shaped optimally > for that purpose. Looking into the setting and not just the set designs, why would the Goa'uld do that? * They have the old design and no designers to change them. Which is not really an answer: why were old designs made that way? * Most of the henchmen train and fight with low-tech weapons. Only a few elite henchmen are issued the high-tech counterpart, and there are not enough spare parts to "use them up" in training. So the high-tech has to look and feel like the low-tech. * The Jaffa don't fight other system lords all that often. Mostly they are used to keep ignorant peasants in line. This calls for weapons which inflict pain in a flashy way, not instant death. A dead peasant is no economic asset. * Many worlds have peasants and miners who haven't seen their lords in decades or centuries. They should _recognize_ the weapon as a threat so that the threat doesn't have to be used.. * The Goa'uld have better weapons, but they don't issue them to the rank and file Jaffa. They prefer it that their henchmen are armed with short-range weapons without proper sights. It wouldn't do if snipers started to take out leaders at long range. > So IMHO a grav segway is what fits best for the look and feel of the > setting. > > It would be less comfortable then a grav bike, with a higher chance of > falling off, but it would be more easy to cramp 3 or 4 people into the 2 > spaces it normally has (or 2 people in the one space). A segway or a "horseless wheelless chariot"? A contragrav/reactionless flyer would require at least mechanical controls. A rules loophole allows low-powered contragrav/ducted fan flyers. > If you just like the look of slaves hanging on a harness on the chariot, > you still can do that, it would just be more that the system lord yanks > the slaves hanging on the chariot around, rather then the slaves pulling > the chariot. Personally, I don't like that at all. For the sake of adventure settings, I'm willing to discuss the ways of Evil Overlords and Ladies :-) The Goa'uld want to impress their peers and their subjects with their power over technology and people. I would guess that a working superscience thruster is more impressive than a slave. The only exception would be if they want to punish or degrade a specific victim (a captured player character or dependent?). Regards, Onno _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
