I am working on equipment books (weapons to start with), and would like to give each race a unique technological development. I am trying to make other races something other than humans with different "faces". Look a bug with a laser pistol, and a blob of protoplasm with a laser pistol, and a flying monkey with a laser pistol, etc, etc...<br /><br />Due to the way space travel was discovered, it would not take huge amounts of time to develope FTL travel. It would be found quite by accident while exploring the local solar system. This would make technology more "primitive" than most sci-fi settings.<br /><br />Humans are easy, we like things that go boom. Most of our early technological development relies on chemical interaction. Coal, steam, gunpowder, gasoline, etc. Continue that thought and man goes into space with chemical drives and weapons that fling projectiles at each other. Gauss weapons were never pursued and laser weapons were in a primitive stage due to energy requirements.<br /><br />What if a race did not have such volitile materials? What would there technology be based on?<br /><br />I thought of the Vrusk. I pictured their world as a wonderous place where the rock is very magnetic. This would make the Vrusk masters of manipulating magnetic fields. They would have vehicles that are suspended on repulsor fields (the basis behind aircars and skimmers). They would have floating islands and cities (every sci-fi setting has continents flying above the landscape somewhere). Vrusk security forces would be armed with gauss assault rifles and intertial screens. Vrusk spaceships could fly between the stars on magnetic sails and magnetic rail drives (suppress a weight's magnetic field and shoot it at one side of a ship while giving it back it magnetic properties creating thrust in the opposite direction).<br /><br />I need something for the Dralasite and Yazarian races. One I want to develope sonic weapons, probably the Dralasites. I figure the Yazarians (with their honor system and berserker tendancies) would go more toward powered melee and thrown weapons (that whole look your enemy in the eye thing).<br /><br />Let me know what you guys think.<br /><br />Greymyst
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