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Takiro

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Primitive Technologies
« on: August 28, 2010, 09:26:31 AM »
Hey guys reading XTRO Primitives got me thinking to the possible development of armor throughout the history of BattleTech. Modern Standard Armor Plating circa 3025 is much more advanced than our real world militaries can field today. The introduction of so-called Primitive Armor is likely a middle ground developed between in the late 21st or early 22nd century. I just wanted to comment on this and expound on the development of other technologies like Fusion Engines along with other progression in Human civilization in the BT universe. What impact do you think increase space travel had on the development of tougher armor? I'm thinking that spaceship hull construction would be instrumental in the refinement of such plating. For that matter human colonization of other worlds even before the successful construction of a KF Drive would also be a factor. Denizens of Deep Space like the Belters certainly made materials more plentiful as they perfected mining techniques and constructed safer shelters for themselves. So long before the BattleMech a move to sterner stuff could have been made. Just a riff guys want to see what you think.  ;)
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Re: Primitive Technologies
« Reply #1 on: August 28, 2010, 10:49:05 AM »
While I can see the colonization boom and subsequent life on other worlds leading to the developement of stronger/better ship hulls and smaller fusion powerplants, I don't really see armour developing much because of that.  Maybe modern armour's effectivness against directed-energy weapons was tied to producing hulls that handled re-entry better, or making it lighter so ships could carry more, and the new/greater resources would have definitely helped in production. But the improvement of armour would have been mostly a result of the continued offensive/defensive arms race.

Basically space travel helped, but it was not the driving force behind armour developement.
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Re: Primitive Technologies
« Reply #2 on: August 29, 2010, 01:11:49 AM »
But the perfection of mining techniques and the availability of new materials or new processes coud lead to upgrades in existing armours.
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Re: Primitive Technologies
« Reply #3 on: January 04, 2011, 01:26:44 AM »
It's not so much mining techniques, or even new materials/minerals (although that helps), but manufacturing processes. Zero-G Manufacture would lead the pack.

AFAIK, no one has even attempted any kind of large-scale metal refining in space, but they haven't even scratched the surface of what materials may be out there. For the Primitive stuff, I would think some form of Carbon-60 Bucky Ball structure would be the name of the game, initially......
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