Timeline for Humanity is an FTL capable empire with great technological capabilities, what will our fighting machine or machines be like?
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| Oct 3, 2020 at 2:33 | history | edited | Seallussus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 3, 2020 at 2:26 | comment | added | Seallussus | @StephenG, I appreciate the idea but that is not how I imagine the military would evolve or what it would actually evolve. Look. The US has aircraft carriers and the most advanced Fighters and posses nuclear missiles..etc. But does that mean they dismantled the infantry and said: we can nuke any opponent. Who needs guys with guns? 2nd huge important point is: Yes. FTL empires are amazing. But let me ask you: what happens when you encounter another FTL empire? You are not only fighting people with pointed sticks. And when 2 FTL empires meet you need every advantage. Like in chess. | |
| Oct 3, 2020 at 2:23 | comment | added | Seallussus | @DKNguyen, Again you are right. That's why I left it completely open to you guys to propose a better way. The whole mechanical contraption thing is what I came up with. That could be wrong so feel free to provide a completely different thing. Like I said I just added for context. | |
| Oct 3, 2020 at 1:07 | comment | added | StephenG - Help Ukraine | Making an machine that runs in the desert is different from one that runs in ice fields. If your culture has developed an FTL based Empire with Anti-Gravity it's impossible to imagine they could not have gotten over the relatively trivial issues that all terrain all climate vehicles pose. Only the most extreme of conditions would be problematic at all (e.g. surface of IO, very, very deep travel inside the atmosphere of a Gas Giant). | |
| Oct 3, 2020 at 0:21 | answer | added | Mon | timeline score: 6 | |
| Oct 2, 2020 at 23:07 | comment | added | DKNguyen | @Seallussus Well then you are at an impasse if want your spider platform which only has legs for mobility to operate in all environments but its too expensive to give it anything else. | |
| Oct 2, 2020 at 23:03 | comment | added | Seallussus | @DKNguyen, You are of coures correct in theory. But just like real world military. Economy. Making anti gravity teach requires more resources. Which becomes a problem especially if you re making the standard most numerous machines with it. Just like that scene in the Dark Knight when Fox told Bruce that the government did not think a foot soldier is worth that much when referring to the high cost of the armor. | |
| Oct 2, 2020 at 22:55 | comment | added | DKNguyen | @Seallussus You want your spider platform to function any environment? Why bother with legs at all when you have anti-grav? | |
| Oct 2, 2020 at 21:45 | comment | added | user535733 | Obliterate from orbit. Maybe the next society to arise from the ruins in a few centuries will be more amenable. If not, rinse and repeat. | |
| Oct 2, 2020 at 21:15 | comment | added | Seallussus | @DKNguyen, That would be too limiting. I wish, which might be too ambition but who cares, for machines that can fight in just about the vast majority of planets. Sometimes you are fighting a race the lives in a water world and other they have rocky high gravity world. Constantly changing the machines of war I think creates problems. | |
| Oct 2, 2020 at 21:15 | answer | added | Daron | timeline score: 5 | |
| Oct 2, 2020 at 21:12 | comment | added | DKNguyen | Any terrestrial environment you mean? | |
| Oct 2, 2020 at 21:10 | answer | added | lijat | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 2, 2020 at 21:06 | answer | added | jdunlop | timeline score: 16 | |
| Oct 2, 2020 at 20:54 | history | asked | Seallussus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |