soltakss said:
So, I can see a very modular system being used for SpaceQuest where you can build spaceships using various component parts. You could even have different technology owned by different species and so build species-specific craft.
As an example, in Star Trek, the Federation had Phasers and Romulans had Disrupters (or was that Klingons? It was probably Klingons), so you'd have different technology types doing similar damage but from different angles.
Space travel is another example. Star Trek has faster than light warp speed and wormhole jumps, Star Wars has jumps into hyperspace, then travel between them and jumps back into normal space, Babylon 5 has Jump Gates and Jump Points, with hyerspace travel, each would be a technology type owned by a series of species or cultures.
One of my ideas for a space setting involved aliens having jump point technology, being able to generate jump points from big ships and travelling that way, but humans had inferior technology, so they couldn't generate large enough stable jump points from ships, so they built stationary jump gates instead, with the technology focussing inwards to a stable point rather than outwards to an unstable point. Of course, this was a huge technological leap and enabled each colony to have its own jump gate with cheap interstellar travel by non-jump-enabled ships, opening space travel and trade to the masses rather than the priviliged few.
The trick is being able to write up the technology in believable, simple modular ways. RuneQuest has the perfect opportunity to do this. I hope they do.
