Post originally by Bill at 2004-03-26 08:47:07
Converted from Phorums BB System

In terms of cloaking technology, it is mostly in reference to sensor cloaking. Holographic projectors can render a person, and potentially a ship, invisible but not invisible to sensors. Some SCRM and distort readings but you begin to run into a pile of equipment. It would be possible to "cloak" a stationary object but movement (either through disturbance in the atmosphere or propulsion methods in space) would render it visible to sensors. In essence, when refering to cloaking I am saying no "Star Trek" type cloaked vessels.

Does that help?

As to the basis for technology, I tried very much to address culture with need in terms of what technologies would be developed. Teleportation is hypthetically possible via use of tachions (sp?) but you have to ask yourself is it worth it and would people accept it? In this setting, I felt it was outside both of those and highly unlikely probability of practical application.

Oh, also, the only two technologies I state as impossible (cloaking is merely improbable) are Reincarnation/Ressurection and Teleportation. By Ressurection (there is cloning) I mean the revivication of a dead body. Beyond several minutes (depending on injury and conditions, brain damage rules out reviving the body. Cloning can make a new body and recordings of the brain allow reconstruction of memory to the point of the recording. By this means a person may live on after death. However it is expensive and highly regulated.

I agree with your assessment, Good review Rafael!

Thanks for your interest in Nebuleon,
Bill