Re: WotD Laser Targeting

--- Glenn M Wilson <triphibious@juno.com> wrote:

> Um, the PAU?	And parts of the ESU, and the
> Indonesian guys? 
> 
> As a 'third world' Regional Analyst in (so called)
> real life, I think
> these are third world. no?? <grin>  They won't have
> *all* the toys but
> they are (in our game world) out among the stars.

And their first-line troops are going to be properly
equipped.  Remember the Indonesians pioneered the use
of CG-equipped vehicles.  I have a feeling that
technology and manufacturing capabilities are a lot
'flatter' on Terra and in the Inner systems than they
are today.  IE, there isn't a militarily significant
amount of difference in the systems produced in the
coastal Emirates for the IF, in Kenya for the PAU, in
Hangchow for the ESU, or in Manchester for the NAC.
  
One possible explanation would be that this comes from
the 21st century, the era of the "MNCs" and
"Transnational Corporations" (which presumably are now
under at least a certain amount of control by the
nation-states, at least on the mother-world) who
located manufacturing facilities in a wide variety of
places, favoring the 3rd world because they could more
or less purchase the entire country.  

The differences in technology come with units equipped
by colonial worlds, who vary in technological level
from the NI planets (which I see as overall on a par
with Terra) to some undercapitalized jerkwater dump
full of zippers who can manage 1940s automatic
weaponry and that's about it.

John 

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