A SW-Tech Free Gift...

[Crossroads Inc.]

A benevolent Deity decides to grant you a wish, you have the ability to ask for any of StarWars magical Techs… What you would receive is several working examples of said Tech, Books and complete technical Data on how it works and the properties of how to build one.

Of course, you can only ask for one tech, so, which would you choose?



Me? I would choose Repulser Lifts. It seems to me the most simple in the long run. Sure it would be nice to have Hyperdrives, and travel across the stars, but with no tech to build starships, there’s no point.

Repulser Lifts or ‘AntiGravity’ seems to be pervasive throughout StarWars. What ever it is, you can install it in something as small as a football. Plus, it would seem any source of energy would be able to power it up. Pluse, understanding how it works would lead to an understanding of Gravity itself, something that would be a boon to Physics Professors around the world and lead to a better understanding of the universe itself.

It would certainly revolutionize travel. You could make cars, trucks, anything airborne should you want. And you don’t have to worry about things like wings anymore, you could transport Ship sized loads over land with ease. And over time, as the tech grew more and more easy to use and understand, one could build whole flying Cities if they wished.

[Spanky The Dolphin]

It's "hyperdrive," "hypermatter," "turbolasers," and "repulsorlifts."

I've kind of been noticing a trend with you, what's with all this random capitalisation, truncation and splitting of terms/words, and junk? Stuff like that drives me God damn crazy...

[BringerOfLight]

Hypermatter reactors; with the right energy source, everything else should come by fairly easily.

[Crossroads Inc.]

It's "hyperdrive," "hypermatter," "turbolasers," and "repulsorlifts."

I've kind of been noticing a trend with you, what's with all this random capitalisation, truncation and splitting of terms/words, and junk? Stuff like that drives me God damn crazy...

Sorry about that, probly just comes from me not being a dedicated Warsian... I'll be good, promise

[Spanky The Dolphin]

I'd also go with hypermatter reactors.

Cross: Don't really worry too much about it. It's more of a grammar freak thing.

[Praxis]

Hypermatter is a maybe maybe not thing. It could also end up causing insane amounts of destruction- think Nuclear bombs x1000...

Repulsorlifts would rock, as would shields (prevent a lot of accidents with shielded cars and homes)...

[Ra]

Repulsorlifts, easy. I'm an aerospace junkie, and "antigrav" technology is the so-called "Holy Grail of Aerospace". Repulsorlifts would make rocketry (for getting shit into orbit) obsolete. It would also make air travel cheap and highly efficient, as well. With a cheap way to get things off the planet, stepping into space would be rather easy. We already have primitive ion drives that have been proven on space probes, and plasma drive (primitive impulse engines) is about a decade or two away. While I've focused on the ramifications to the space industry, its implications on air travel, commerce, freight, and just about our very way of life would be transformed. Besides, owning a landspeeder would just be fucking awesome!
- Ra

[Crossroads Inc.]

Heck with an Airspeeder, I could have a Literal Airship

It wouldn't matter how unorthodoxed the design is, or how aerodynamically unsound the design is. You could have whole Ocean Liners soaring through the skies with this On a wider scale it would wholy Revolutionize the transportation system of the entire world and give a major boost to getting large payloads into Orbit.

[Elheru Aran]

*Pictures the Titanic II cruising the Himalayas*

*Pictures the Missouri idling through the skies a la Space Battleship Yamato, escorting flying aircraft carriers*

*Pictures huge grav-trains charging across the countryside*

"Have a Holiday Home in Orbit! Get there with your new Ford Mustang, with Orbit-Achieving Rocket Booster and Nine Antigravs Lift!"

Fuck yeah...

[Darth Yoshi]

Hypermatter. Take that, Oil Cartel!

[Mad]

Hypermatter seems to have the most potential for leading to new discoveries. Simply being able to work with hypermatter could help lead to hyperspace. The information on the materials needed to build the reactor, too, would be invaluable.

[Steven Snyder]

Yep

Hypermatter reactors, energy makes the world go round.

[Fuzzy]

Repulsors... simply because flying cars (and other stuff) are cool. Hypermatter would probably be good too, down with oil and all that jazz. I'd say close tie, but I voted for repulsors.

[18-Till-I-Die]

Hyperdrives.

When we can go to new star systems, we'll have the whole galaxy to colonize, resources to draw upon, and overpopulation will be a distant memory.

It'll change everything. Our whole society would be changed. No need for fighting over resources, you can mine a whole starsystem if you need to, there are hundreds of billions to choose from. No overpopulation, cause trillions of planets to teraform and colonies, plus some probably Earthlike planets just waiting to be found.

[Cabwi Desco]

With repulsorlifts and real Air-Ships, things like skies of arcadia woud become reality, you could lift entire islands! Hell, I want a hovertank!

[Enforcer Talen]

hypermatter. everything else follows.

[Crossroads Inc.]

I have to say, the problem with Hypermatter is, well, I just don't trust us with it!

Houenstly it would be the most useful, and with, understanding it's properties would lay the foundation for almost all the rest of StarWars tech... BUT it would be frighteningly easy once a Reactor was built, for it to be turned into a bomb of horrible potential.

I know it's a bad example, but we were building Atom BOMBS long before Atom Reactors...

[Spanky The Dolphin]

So?

Get the hell back on the hippie van, flowerchild.

[Ra]

I have to say, the problem with Hypermatter is, well, I just don't trust us with it!

Houenstly it would be the most useful, and with, understanding it's properties would lay the foundation for almost all the rest of StarWars tech... BUT it would be frighteningly easy once a Reactor was built, for it to be turned into a bomb of horrible potential.

I know it's a bad example, but we were building Atom BOMBS long before Atom Reactors...

Actually, Enrico Fermi built the first nuclear reactor, or "atomic pile", as he called it, before the nuke was built by the Manhattan Project, which, unsurprisingly, he was a part of. However, the commerical nuke plant opened in England in the 1950's. Boy, I'm a nerd! Anyway, I do share Crossroads' "hippy" fear of hypermatter. A nuclear reactor or even a fusion reactor cannot "explode" like a fraking bomb. A hypermatter reactor can go off like a hyper-nova!

[Joe]

Hypermatter, by far.

[Stark]

Hyperdrives.

When we can go to new star systems, we'll have the whole galaxy to colonize, resources to draw upon, and overpopulation will be a distant memory.

It'll change everything. Our whole society would be changed. No need for fighting over resources, you can mine a whole starsystem if you need to, there are hundreds of billions to choose from. No overpopulation, cause trillions of planets to teraform and colonies, plus some probably Earthlike planets just waiting to be found.

But how you gonna POWER it, kid?

[Darth Fanboy]

LIGHTSABER!!!!!!!!!!1111111 oMg lol!

Turbolasers. DF Like explosions, DF Like holding countries hostage.

[Robert Treder]

Hypermatter Reactors are obviously the most powerful technology of the bunch ... but fuel's a bitch. The fuel for a starship's reactor outmasses the starship itself by quite a bit. We don't know what they use for fuel, and even though in this scenario we would be apprised of this, there's no guarantee that we could procure any of it.

So, unless there are no problems with fueling hypermatter reactors, I'd go with the repulsorlifts. They are apparantly relatively efficient. Plus, they would kick ass.

[Ace Pace]

Repulsorlifts, the problem with TLs or Hyperdrives is power, and TLs... come on, one shot destroys half the crust over the target zone.

Repulsorlifts also fixs the traffic problem, now multiple lanes of travel, saving money.

[Darth Fanboy]

Repulsorlifts, the problem with TLs or Hyperdrives is power, and TLs... come on, one shot destroys half the crust over the target zone.

Repulsorlifts also fixs the traffic problem, now multiple lanes of travel, saving money.

Fine, then I will point my TL at you and you will give me your Repulsorlifts. TL lets me take whatever I want