Time to build some robots! I’ll start by rebuilding the RATS from THS, page 124. This is described as “stealthy ground-combat cybershells intended to supplement or replace human infantry.” The example given “is typical: an ovoid four-legged…
There are three main sources on robots in GURPS: THS has some (dubbed cybershells), 3e’s Robots has several more and a whole design system, and 4e Ultratech has some more. From page 121 on, THS provides a total of 14 different robots. Worth…
When we talk about transformative technologies in terms of setting, it might serve to look at one of the areas in the real world which produced a truly transformative effect: Information and commmunication technology (ICT), which allows us
All of that new technology is nice, but you can’t use it if you can’t get your hands on it - and for that, you need to produce everything. This post is me looking at different production models and trying to - roughly - estimate what produc…
If your parents couldn’t - or didn’t - spend the money to upgrade your genome, what can you change? Turns out, quite a few things. Biotech categorizes these into a total of six different categories, which I’ll summarize shortly. This starts…
If your mind is willing but the steel - as we’ve seen last time - is weak, why not improve what you were naturally given? Genetic engineering has also been long-touted as providing us with a better human being. To quote BioTech: “But with g…
Last time, we talked about how to take a human mind out of a body, copy it, change it, merge it, or put it back. This easy way of moving into a more “powerful” body (whatever that might mean; I am sure players have their own definition of p…
Artificial Intelligence is one of those holy grails of science fiction. In our world, depending on one’s philosophical interpretation, the field of AI started centuries ago, though first as a philosophical construct. Since the 1950s, with t…
There are different ways to look at technological progress and its influence on a setting. GURPS primarily has two sources which talk about this: UT and Space. This seems to be something that’s missing from 3e, by the way. Ultra-Tech offers…
Since the beginning of the year, 11 of my 20 posts were on space combat. I’ve tested the default 4e Spaceship rules, modified 4e Spaceship rules, and 3e THS/Vehicles rules. And, in the end, what did I end up with? Let me look at the differe…
In what will be the last post of this series on spacecraft combat, we’ll be looking at two SDVs duelling. Both are essentially identical except for their main armament: One mounts a particle beam, the other one a railgun. I’m using SDV90s f…
Using the railgun designed in the last post, it’s now time to look at it in the space combat system. We’ll reuse the interception scenario yet again, equipping the AKVs with railguns. This requires more space - a slight increase in dimensio…