[FH] IF names and future tech

1 posts ยท Nov 11 2003

From: Beth Fulton <beth.fulton@m...>

Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 11:11:20 +1100

Subject: [FH] IF names and future tech

G'day guys,

Well finally ended up in the tea room for morning tea, which means I got some
answers on IF naming. Names of people and places are fine. Angels are a bit
more controversial (some didn't mind others thought it a bad idea depending on
what exact form of Islam you followed) so probably best to skip that one...
though it as a compromise terms like angel of death or angel of truth rather
than actual names of angels would be ok. The other thing to watch when maing
the ships is be careful not to accidently name them after Christain Arabs
because they often have names that Muslims find distatseful (like "slave of
the messiah").

Ok now on to the tech question. I know that future tech successes can be hard
to guess, but does anyone feel brave enough to say what kind of tech will take
off once we're in space?

And another question. Now metal storm tech is spanning all kinds of weapons
from guns, to ADS, to aircraft weaponry, to naval guns, to
grenade launchers etc etc, will this actually slot into DS/SG under
existing weapon types or is it different enough you'd have to tweak some of
the weapon stats to represent it?

Thanks