Postmodern Tech

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Postmodern Tech is a tech level halfway point between Future Tech, or "Far Future Tech", and Modern Tech. In Postmodern Tech, the societies and technologies are much like the real world equivelants, but there can be some bending of the rules. Allows roughly up until the invention of FTL travel, Teleportation, or another "rule-breaking" technology. A fickle category, but one that is popular on the forums, as it allows creativity while reins in the temptation to construct Star Armadas - something that some players consider godmodding.

Similar, but not identical, is the concept of tech+1, which is to say technology that could reasonably be developed from real-life modern technology within ten years.

Weapons used in space combat roleplayed in these eras tend to include such categories as early particle beam weapons, kinetic weapons (especially mass drivers and reaction-driven missiles), electromagnetic weapons (lasers). The concept of defensive energy "shielding" also tends to take a back-row seat compared to Future Tech capabilities.

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