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| **Computers (Theoretical):** The desire to automate calculation requires first a basic understanding of mathematics and machinery. Simple tools, such as an abacus, generally signal that computers are dreamed of but not available. //Required: Nothing [2700 BC].// | **Combat Transport (Theoretical):** Wanting a safe way to get around on the Battlefield is as old as battlefields themselves. //No Preqs Required// |
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| **Computers (Gen One) Difference Engine or Electromechanical Computer** This is either an massive mechanical design [30m x 10m] or a smaller but still impressively large machine utilizing vacuum tubes and punch cards. With the ability to handle thousands of calculations per second, this machine can reduce problems that would take days into minutes. //Required: Engineering II, Infrastructure II [1945].// | **Combat Transport (Gen One) Chariots** A somewhat protected vehicle pulled by horses, chariots offer a mobile platform for soldiers on the move, but provide little cover. Still, Chariots offer advantages on ground based soldiers. //Required: Agriculture II, [2000 BC].// |
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| **Computers (Gen Two) Minicomputer:** This allows much smaller computers roughly the size of a refrigerator--far smaller in scale of computers of the previous generation, and far more powerful in terms of research, owing to uses of transistors and core memory. Although it stores only 4kb of information and can perform hundreds of thousands of calculations a second. //Required: Chemistry III [1965]// | **Combat Transport (Gen Two) Stagecoach:** Far more advanced than a Chariot, Stagecoaches are fully enclosed and proof against bows. They can be used to carry cargo or important leaders, although they are too expensive to use for much more than elite officials in a combat situation. The horses, of course, are still very vulnerable... //Required: Engineering III [1250]// |
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| **Computers (Gen Three) Microcomputer:** Far smaller again then Generation Two computers, offers further advances, such as colour graphics and an operating system, such as DOS. While the earliest of these designs is still very primitive by modern standards, modern computers are simply far better optimized version of these machines. //Required: Paper III, Engineering III. [1976]// | **Combat Transport (Gen Three) Automobile:** This machine requires no horses and offers large advantages in speed, the ability to travel more hours a day, and massive improvements on logistical situations. The Automobile will ultimately offer operational freedom on the battlefield, but it will require a steady source of fuel to operate. //Required: Fossil Fuels II, Materials Science III. [1885]// |
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| **Computers (Gen Four) Bio-Compatible Computers:** Despite their great complexity, Computers share little in common with human thought processes. These crucial advances will allow the development of a Mental-User Interface and the ability to use computers to create perfect prosthetic limbs, as well as allow enhancements to upgrade the human mind. //Required: Medicine IV, Engineering IV [2018?]// | **Combat Transport (Gen Four) Tanks:** Tanks were developed to break stalemates and deadlocks that resulted from the deployment of machine guns, and ultimately resulted in changing the entire scope of land warfare. Tanks aggressively chew through oil and other materials, but offer huge advantages on the battlefield. //Required: Firearms IV (Provisional?), Fossil Fuels II (Provisional?) [1915]// |
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| **Computers (Gen Five) Quantum Computers:** This is the left hand of god in the computational field. Due to particles ability to maintain highly nuanced superpositions instead of a simply 1 or 0 and the atomic size of these particles, Quantum Computers possess the power to handle calculations of incredible size with incredible speed. This is sufficient to calculate the location of every person on earth in realtime, or to "brute force" the locations of atoms. Suffice it to say, if a problem can be solved at any rate with a computer, it can probably be done in under a second with a Quantum Computer. A Quantum Computer can effectively model highly advanced paradigms, like the weather, or even project the course of bullets and missiles on the battlefield. Attached to some kind of laser beam, a Quantum Computer is simply able to eliminate all threats with perfect aim, constrained only by the recoil and fire rate of its weaponry. // Requires Nanotech III [2080?]// | **Combat Transport (Gen Five) Dropships:** Dropships are reorbital craft designed to handle the stresses of carrying soldiers into orbit and back to the planets surface. They are powerful, reusable, and offer incredible logistical advantages. These vehicles are also sufficient to move soldiers in a space theater, and expand the scope of combat to other planets. // Requires Nuclear III, Materials Science V, Space Transit II[2050?]// |
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