Low tech surprise!
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- #4498 Re: low-tech anti-matter by Adrian Hurt
I was talking with a friend the other day, annd we got to discussing some of the "odder" things that can be stolen from older SF and incorporated into Traveller. We came up with one that looks like it could be *real* nasty, but I'd like to bounce it off the ship design folks. Jack Williamson had a couple of Novels in the 50s set in a version of the solar system that was a bit improbable then and *totally* impossible now. But a similar solar system *could exist in this galaxy (it'd just be *very* unlikely). Specificly, this system had suffered from an encounter with an extra-galactic rogue planet. Both it and one of the systems planet interacted and the result was a large asteriod belt. I hear you saying "So what?". Well, there's one *teensy* detail... the rogue planet was antimatter. This means that a rather low tech level culture could have antimatter powerplants *and* warheads... Picture the poor unsuspecting Imperial scouts encountering *that* contradicttion. (Tech level 10 ships with antimatter power! <shudder>) Anybody think it's worth fudging up some designs for?