Re: Ecology of the Scro

> > the problem is that while you can limit the spread of magic, technology
> > has this way of spreading within a few years.
> >
>         Actually you can limit technology  just like you would limit magic.

to a certain extent. the problem is that you can reverse engineer a gun.
a lever action rifle is actually a very simple device. cunning, sure,
but that's it. up to this point, there were only two major technological
breathroughs:

rifling would be very hard to copy, as that's a manufacturing technique
and you don't find factories hanging around battlefields, so that
wouldn't spread for a while, although once people knew what they were
looking for it's happen eventually

percussion caps; all that that requires is a single clever alchemist to
identify mercury fulminate as the explosive involved.


> If the
> campaign last over several hundred years or so then I sure don't want
> everything to remain unchanged with out a damn good reason.

it took about 400 years between the invention of matchlock weapons and
the invention of cartridges.


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