' Wrote:Then, if Freelancer would be developing its tech as fast as we're here in the last 100 years, then I bet it'd look totally different. If I remember correctly, few Liberty ships look exactly like the ones from cinematic, of what happened 800 years ago.... :rolleyes:
That's actually one of the points I've been trying to make, and probably doing a crappy job of it - thus making this thread a bit longer than needed.
Our 'Freelancer' and 'Discovery' descendants already knew about advanced technology and the manufacturing techniques of Earth when they got to Sirius. It's entirely probable that they had to roll things back for a while - they had to make the machines to make the machines to make the machines that were needed to produce the airplanes and first self-built space ships.
So that may have taken Liberty 100 years or so to catch up to where they were, pre-leaving Sol. Even with the population issues, though, it probably didn't take ANY planetary group, including the Corsairs, more than 200 years.
Yeah, I'm being heretical by saying that about the Corsairs. You know why? Omicron Gamma has a big asteroid field, doesn't it? You're saying, what does that have to do with anything? Really quite simple. Once you get the ability to mine asteroids and start doing so - you no longer have any material shortages. Period. You might have a shortage of arable farmland due to a hostile environment, which is what happened with Crete.
But actually needed 50,000 tons - or 5,000,000 of iron for something? No problem - go melt an asteroid or two.
John Ringo has a series of books (not his 'Ghost' series, which are something else entirely) which show just how and what can be accomplished. The first book in the series, 'Live Free or Die', shows quite literally a step by step process for doing this.
So Darth, you need all sorts of fancy material components - go melt some rocks. Not going to be that tough. Some systems will be shorter in materials than others. But there's a LOT of rocks in Sirius.
Maelstrom is correct in that smaller factions that don't have the support of an actual house (whether apparent or hidden) - or are allied with a group that has a real shipyard - are going to be VERY limited in their ability to produce much more than gunships. So the Rogues having more than MAYBE a couple of big caps is highly unlikely. Same for the Gaians - unless they got a Corsair shipyard to make it for them, they're not going to have the production facilities. The Guild Core DID have Liberty make their first series of cap ships - that was established a long time ago on the first Thresher info card.
(11-21-2013, 12:53 PM)Jihadjoe Wrote: Oh god... The end of days... Agmen agreed with me.
