Antigrav but no volts

  ::>>  >I read a book a long time ago (oh no I hear you say ... suffer!) where
  ::>>  >technology took a different path.  There was a simple law of physics t
  ::>>  >if seen would lead on to anti-grav and space flight but precluded all
  ::>>  >electrical type technology as we know it today.

  This could be interesting!  Posit this:  During the Collapse, a
  system which had made TL13 under Imperial rule is blown back to
  about TL2 or 3, and they have to rebuild their tech with no notes
  (i.e., they have to reinvent it).  Now, they've somehow managed
  to get on this tech path instead of the other one, that the
  Imperial UWP was based on.  So, we've got a culture with space
  flight and antigrav (which according to the standard scale means
  TL10), but which doesn't have internal combustion or computers
  (well, possibly computers, of the Difference Engine/Analytical
  Engine type) or laser weapons or radio or..., which, ignoring the
  existance of the space flight and antigrav, puts them at TL6 or
  lower.  How do we write a UWP for this world?  Do we have to go
  to DGP's extended generation, and use the tech profile?  Or do we
  just dump this world into an interuniversal warp and let the
  Space:1889 folks play with it?
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Jeff Zeitlin                                      [email removed]
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