Re: [DS and SG] Tech dispersal to the frontier

Jonathan Jarrard wrote:
 
> While colonies are unlikely to ever have the real cutting-edge,
> first-line gear, I don't see frontier communities using any present
day
> style equipment.  I think that most military technology being used by

OK, I'm starting a campaign wherein the players will be playing factions
on a balkanized colony world.  They have 100K to build their ground
forces buying whatever they want--arms dealers are, I presume, more than
happy to ship out to the frontier.  But, once the shooting starts, their
limited infrastructure will be incapable of turning out any of the
advanced military items such as 

fusion power plants
HELs
DFFGs
MDCs
Grav suspensions

The players seem to be, as a result, designing their initial forces with
those limitations in mind, on the grounds that they don't want to have
to switch designs in the middle of the conflict because no more heavy
grav tanks are available.  

There's also factors of space superiority--they can't build a jump
drive, and their spacecraft construction facilities have a lead time of
nine months for even a small ship.  So they will start off with 700
points of actual warships, and quickly start converting their merchant
hulls with basic weapons (which they have stockpiled).

John M. Atkinson