G-tanks

By Muir Macpherson ·

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I'm working on a campaign that doesn't use gravitics so was intrigued
by FF&S's description of G-tanks as an alternative form of G-compensation.
For those not familiar with the idea, G-tanks are fluid filled tanks
that one climbs into.  The fluid provides enough buoyancy to compensate
1-G.  What I'm hoping to get help with is how to scale this up
for higher tech levels.  Could you use different fluids to get better
g-comp?  Or how about layers of increasingly dense fluids that the
person sinks down through as G's increase?  I'm assuming you'd have
to wear a vacc suit or something while you're in this thing.  But if
the Gs get high enough would your suit have to be pressurized to
more than one atmosphere?
And just for descriptive purposes, does anyone have any idea
what this thing would look like?
Thanks in advance. :)