NationStates Jolt Archive

I have looked around these boards and there are a large number of Different future tech nation. After looking for a while, I decided that I would look to see what Tech most people use. I use Tech From Stargate, the Goauld, as well as some of the Azgard ships. And I am aware I have left many out If other, tell us what

I use a mix of Battlestar Galactica, Wing Commander, and a little star trek
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I use my own tech, although I incorporate ideas from Tachyon: The Fringe and Halo a lot.

I take a little from Stargate, Star Trek, and others. And quite a bit O take from StarCraft and Unreal. And then a little more is my own stuff (maybe a dash of homeworld too)

I get my inspiration for my nation from lots of places, including but not limited to Star Wars, Star Trek, Halo, Warhammer 40k, Warhammer Fantasy, Void 1.1, Battlestar Galactica, Starship Troopers, and various Anime... basically every space opera ever conceived. However a series referred to as the Seikai series influences my navy the most (as well as my general nation, but not as significantly), a few of my characters are even blatant rip-offs of characters from this series.

I mostly use material from Master of Orion III - Trilarians being one of the playable races therein - though I use some stuff from MoOII as well.

Boo Hoo I spelt it wrong, can't blame me since I have never seen any of the movies.

Primarily Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek, Star Gate and Farscape... intermixed with various other scifi elements, and real-world theory...

Battlestar Galactica and Star Trek for ship design elements....

An intermix of Star Gate and Farscape intermixed with Kraskinov's artificial wormhole theories.

Sublight technologies from Star Trek, as well as computer systems, and many weapons configurations.

Star Trek intermixed with Alcubeir's warp-bubble theory for standard FTL propulsion.

Navy and Marine rank classifications.

I use EVE-Online tech.

The game ownz, and the tech ownz. A Jovian Titan could EASILY crush the deathstar, the Borg cube, and The enterprise.

Could I crush the Lost city of Atlantis? My nation is currently trying to uncover stuff about the ancheints.

Could I crush the Lost city of Atlantis? My nation is currently trying to uncover stuff about the ancheints.

In it's present state (on the show) most likely....

In its height... I seriously doubt it, considering the thing had a shield capable of withstanding bottom of the ocean depths for countless millenia... (The Atlanteans definitely had some good defensive technologies).

i use a lot of norse-celtic naming conventions, my tech is all origional, though people tell me my ship drawings look very 'wetherlight' from MTG esque.
i use 'effectors' from ian banks's Cultrue novels... though at a much lower tech intensity. My FTL system borrowes a tiny bit from 'Cowboy Bebop' but is mostly origional.

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I'm making up my own technology. Using the already known ones don't have a high "now there's something new" factor.

mix really Star wars, Batttlestar Galtica, Babylon 5, my own and so force. Tho at the moment im going though a heavy Star wars thame even if its mixed with my own (you dont see a Plasma bolter or Star Lancer on a SW ship now do you)

Star Wars with some Freespace tech (although now most of the beam-cannon research is put on hold for the duration of the Sith War). Gravity bombs now sort of on par with that wormhole weapon in Farscape, but we program ours better. ;)

I use my own tech, with some guidance from fiction by the sci-fi author Peter F. Hamilton.

Star Wars engines and weapons. Star Trek Starfleet Command hulls. BattleTech mechs. Starship Troopers/Battletech Elemental marines and Battlestar Galactica Fighter hulls. Original usage of these techs, including Hyperspace Gates, my own Urbanmechs, merging Star Wars engines to Hydran starship hulls.

I the mighty Foolish Pesants makes use of my own technology, which involves OMG T3H GRODSLOAD Genetic engineering as well as mag-rail technology. I think its better if you can think of unique ideas for your stuff, that way people can't try and throw Stats at you as a reason your stuff sucks.

I have a question:can a modern tech nation advance in tech levels. My nation's current tech would be like 2010-2020. Can i progress from that and in what time?

I have a question:can a modern tech nation advance in tech levels. My nation's current tech would be like 2010-2020. Can i progress from that and in what time?

You are pretty much free to change how you roleplay when ever you like, you can either just change over night or try to make a progression story. Its all up to you.

I use my own tech, with some guidance from fiction by the sci-fi author Peter F. Hamilton.

I loved the Night's Dawn trilogy.

I am using Alan Dean Foster as a base. I am developing my own tech form that basis while rediscovering "lost technology" based upon Hamilton's novels.

Warhammer 40K with some Star Wars now that I've joined the Galactic Empire

I use a little of my own tech, a little of Star Trek, and alot of ROBOTECH.

I draw concept art of my own starships, all of them based on Star Trek. I also have a few fighter concepts based on Battlestar Galactica.

I use my own tech, and I use a completely modified version of the grid in the "culture" novels (it isn't an offensive weapon anymore, rather a power source with definite limits and variations.) I also use variants on one or two Nights Dawn (Hamilton) technology, such as the combat wasp (now my hummingbird missile) and neural nanonics (my neurites, but they aren't unique to Nights Dawn anyway.)

Other than that it's all my own.

I use my own tech, although I draw quite a bit of inspiration from several areas.

(S.M. Stirling) - Domination of the Draka
(Heinlein) - The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Alternity Series (D&D sci-fi set)

Beyond those everything is my creation, in particular my use of virtual matter and phase displacement technologies

A mix between Starwars & Star trek & Star Gate & Warhammer 40K for my future stuff.

I use all my own tech. It's a lot more fun than copying from an established source, and allows a lot moer freedom to develop and restructure to face new threats.

I especially avoid Star Trek like the plague. The ships are just too... weak.

I use all my own tech. It's a lot more fun than copying from an established source, and allows a lot moer freedom to develop and restructure to face new threats.

I especially avoid Star Trek like the plague. The ships are just too... weak.

Lol thats the reason i hate tech disscution ohh no trek tech is to weak .. jeez .. beyond that i use trek tech and ships and they can take a chunk out of an ISD belive it or not

o its always omg TEH weak THATS WHY I HAVE TO WANK UP MY SHIPS becuse of THAT ADDUITE RIGHT THERE *points*

The problem with people automatically thinking Trek ships are weak is that it's not fair on the guy who uses it, especially when you consider that he'd have to either overwhelm ships with a large fleet, or pull out more stats than normal Trek has to keep up. That's not a good thing.

On that point, I often make sure that a guy with Treknology can deal damage to my ISDs for fairness purposes. Sometimes I wish others would, too.

I use a mix of Macross fighters and a few ships also with a mix of Halo weapons as well as some custom stuff.

I also take a lot of ideas from David Weber novels, especially The Shiva Option, and In Death Ground. I also take ideas and make my own tech from Timothy Zahn novels

I come up with my own ship stats, and I render them with Doga L3. Although I keep them simple, because I like simple yet ellegant ships.

If i were to ever get into future tech i would definatly be using custom stuff i have had for years (heck some of it might even be vaguely feasible), to be honest it is heavily based on Aliens tech but taken forward a bit (ie much better FTL systems) and with inspiration from star wars B5 and 40k playign a bit ehre and there. Personally custom tech is going to feature little bits of other universes without you even realising it.

or i might just take the easy way and use by Btech ship designs but with honerverse weapons ie ppc=grazers, baracuda missiles=interceptor missiles, white shark/killer whale=standard manty missiles and Kraken-T=ghost rider. Although to be honest i might keep the NACs and NGRs but ramp up the power and probabaly retain the vast arrays of close rnage weapons Btech ships have.

Oh, let's see, this'll be a mouthfull,

Mechwarrior, Star Treck, Star Wars, Halo, Doom, Star Gate, Alien, Predator, errr, I think that's it...

I understand your point TFU, which is why I am always ready to treat your Trek Tech as equal to mine, but when I was forming my technology (in my head) Trek was, to me, worthless.

i use a buncha different things.

I use tech I formulated for a novel I may or may not ever get to writing. Quite a fun universe, really. Lots of back story. Most everything I've done ties in with the universe.

I'd think the influences I do have come from Halo (Namely in story, though, not tech). For ship design, I get it from all over the place. My really large ships are mostly products of my own mind, but some smaller ships (Like the Raptor Corvette) are blatant hybrids. I even got the idea for my main fighter from Star Trek: Nemesis.

My favorite tech I lifted from David Weber are Hyper-Velocity Missiles/bullets. Those things kick some serious ass.

I use tech I formulated for a novel I may or may not ever get to writing. Quite a fun universe, really. Lots of back story. Most everything I've done ties in with the universe.

I'd think the influences I do have come from Halo (Namely in story, though, not tech). For ship design, I get it from all over the place. My really large ships are mostly products of my own mind, but some smaller ships (Like the Raptor Corvette) are blatant hybrids. I even got the idea for my main fighter from Star Trek: Nemesis.

Same here. I have novel ideas in my from years ago I haven't written out yet. I get a lot of my tech from that.

And it appears we both develped a "Raptor" Corvette :D

Same here. I have novel ideas in my from years ago I haven't written out yet. I get a lot of my tech from that.

And it appears we both develped a "Raptor" Corvette :D

Ha, got any pictures of yours?

http://a.1asphost.com/Plushie/Raptor%20Class%20Corvette.PNG

Ha, got any pictures of yours?

http://a.1asphost.com/Plushie/Raptor%20Class%20Corvette.PNG

Sure do.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v422/Xessmithia/corvette1.jpg

How'd you get that blue background?

Heh, damn, that'd be the freakiest thing if they looked similar.

How's your's armed? Heavy for a corvette?

Mines pretty much right in the middle when it comes to corvettes. Not overpoweringly much, but not a weak little rat, either.

Heh, damn, that'd be the freakiest thing if they looked similar.

How's your's armed? Heavy for a corvette?

Mines pretty much right in the middle when it comes to corvettes. Not overpoweringly much, but not a weak little rat, either.

Mid to light range I'd say. My tech thread has the specs but I'm to lazy to get them.

Interesting. Of course, the Raptor Class, along with almost every other class of vessel in my fleet, is very, very old and quite out-dated. My newest (Public) class is a tiny Picket ship. Of course, I do have a pocket battleship that just entered service, but the entire thing is hush hush, mostly because it uses a brand new weapon we've just developed and don't feel like having everyone and their mother knowing about.

However, and you didn't hear this from me, I am in the process of designing the first true battleship class ship we've had in centuries. It will be, quite frankly, one of the most powerful things we have in our arsenal. Ultra-modern in comparison to the other capital ships, able to take down two (Larger and more heavily armed) Goliath Class Dreadnoughts and still be able to fight its way out of an engagement afterward.

Very cool. I just recently unveiled my Cygnus-class Dreadnaughts, which in my scheme are more powerful than battleships.

Were I to build a more modern dreadnought, it would be able to take the new battleship without really thinking. It's just that the Goliaths aren't exactly what I would call 'new'. They're actually looking at a refit. However, I don't believe I'll be designing any new dreadnought classes, I'm drifting more towards smaller (If you can call a mile long ship small) and quick.

Were I to build a more modern dreadnought, it would be able to take the new battleship without really thinking. It's just that the Goliaths aren't exactly what I would call 'new'. They're actually looking at a refit. However, I don't believe I'll be designing any new dreadnought classes, I'm drifting more towards smaller (If you can call a mile long ship small) and quick.

Indeed. I'm looking at focusing on a strikefighter system, where the fighters are the mean offensive weapon, like modern day carrier groups.

Indeed. I'm looking at focusing on a strikefighter system, where the fighters are the mean offensive weapon, like modern day carrier groups.

Interesting. My military is organized like that, but that isn't the way it operates. Like I have carrier groups, with the supercarrier being the central focus of it all, but the battlecruisers and dreadnoughts do most of the anti-capship duties.

I find that using the technologies others have put before our feet, squashes my creative powers. I use my own.

However, one free fighter from my storefront to anyone who uses Wing Commander tech.

I use realistic tech. Trek, SW, MW, WC...so much bullpucky when it comes to tech. I like my science hard, which is why I tend to play with modern nations when I can (no later than about 2100). Too many players use the "make shit up" research path when doing future tech, or just blatantly steal uberpowered devices and try to avoid originality like the plague.

So, my future-tech is advanced, but grounded in science.

I use realistic tech. Trek, SW, MW, WC...so much bullpucky when it comes to tech. I like my science hard, which is why I tend to play with modern nations when I can (no later than about 2100). Too many players use the "make shit up" research path when doing future tech, or just blatantly steal uberpowered devices and try to avoid originality like the plague.

So, my future-tech is advanced, but grounded in science.

Well, EVE online tech taks place in 30,000 years in a seperate system that developed different than we did because in the years 3,000 when the eve-gate which led to a seperate galaxy was destroyed, thus forcing the REmaining humans to totally re-develop everything, thus discovering things differently.

I use mostly my own designs but with a very heavy Warhammer 40K influence. The general idea of Akaton being a super developed industrial wasteland is kinda a rip off of the "forge worlds" in 40K (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/DraconisX13/AkatonCity1.bmp ). As for military, my sky cruisers draw heavily on Battlefleet Gothic (space version of 40K) for appearance and general dependence on large numbers of huge direct fire cannons. Other than that, I have a little bit of influence from all sorts of sci-fi.

A Maleus class sky cruiser drawn by me:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/DraconisX13/MaleusSkyCruiser.bmp

Please use anything other than bitmaps >_<