Re: [HoE] Tech Level

[Prince Nightchilde <nghtchld@applink.net>]

bshurd@juno.com wrote:

> Yes and no... befor judgement day, the tech level was considerably
> higher, 3-d VR movies for the masses with sensory (touch/smels/ect)
> added... common use of hover vehicles, body armor right out of BattleTech
> (i know wrong game) AI's all over the place and running
> factories/communications? As well as that when the first ghost-rock bomb
> was made, the Mad Scientist's lost their muses... and let's look at mad
> scientists anyway... look at the chances of their ideas being twisted,
> either by subtle or not so subtle means, making the discoveries and logic
> that follows current scienctific development (in RL most of the time
> anyway) irrelevent in the Wasted West timeline.
>         Thus no, I don't have a problem with the current tech level in HOE...
> But then, that's just my NSHO.

Also, look at it this way:

High technology tends to make people comfortable.  Comfortable people don't feel
fear as much, in general, as those with lower tech.  Therefore, to get the
appropriate level of fear the Reckoners needed, that comfort level had to be
taken away.

Also, there's the chance that EMPs took out most of the higher level tech.

Just an idea or two.

Marshal Nightchilde