tecnowraith
First Post
not for a 1930's mix though.
Flying vehicles
- Thread starter tecnowraith
- Start date
You could do cool dogfights with hot air balloons. The duelers would each stoke the fires as much as possible to get up above each other, and take potshots at each other and the balloon itself. Once you get significant altitude on them, drop a big metal thing through their balloon and shred them.
Give your world some form, either chemically or with one of the elements of your magic, that treats wood or cloth or ceramic or some other physical element and gives it the properties of metal. Then just act as if the new material was metal.
Reminds me of the Riftwar saga by Raymond Feist (sp?). The invading world was low metal, but had created a process in which they treated wood (laquering?) until it acted as metal, used for weapons and such.
Just a thought.
zen
Reminds me of the Riftwar saga by Raymond Feist (sp?). The invading world was low metal, but had created a process in which they treated wood (laquering?) until it acted as metal, used for weapons and such.
Just a thought.
zen
tecnowraith
First Post
More I thought about it. It looks like my world would be an updated version of Dark Sun that devolped to steampunk and 1930's pulp in technology and society.
Skipping the obvious: Balloons and/or zeppelins. The Chinese were using bamboo kites for manned aerial scouting long before the laggardly europeans were flying.
Steampunk (the imaginary kind) also had discoverd several ideas which were later found wrong. Ether is the prime example, it's the material that carries light waves. And it has a number of interesting properties, but it strays into the "magical" realm. Ether fliers using beams of light to support the craft, firing etheric shock rounds from steam cannon.
Solid fuel rockets using a variant of gunpowder on a glider might make an interesting sight.
Leydon jars are an early form of battery (bascially a large capacter). This allows storage of electricity. Steampunk level technology has a passing understanding of chemical cells (batteries), and could be used to power aircraft.
If you don't mind the frankenstein route, have the craft powered by muscles taken from a cow or other large beast, kept alive in "vitalic fluids".
Ceramic, the high tech kind that can replace metals, is exactly that: High tech. Metals are good because they can do several things reasonbly well without much work. I'd use other materials (like wood) on a low-metal world before resorting to "ceramics". Lashed bamboo is amazingly strong for a construction material. Variants on this idea may help.
Steampunk (the imaginary kind) also had discoverd several ideas which were later found wrong. Ether is the prime example, it's the material that carries light waves. And it has a number of interesting properties, but it strays into the "magical" realm. Ether fliers using beams of light to support the craft, firing etheric shock rounds from steam cannon.
Solid fuel rockets using a variant of gunpowder on a glider might make an interesting sight.
Leydon jars are an early form of battery (bascially a large capacter). This allows storage of electricity. Steampunk level technology has a passing understanding of chemical cells (batteries), and could be used to power aircraft.
If you don't mind the frankenstein route, have the craft powered by muscles taken from a cow or other large beast, kept alive in "vitalic fluids".
Ceramic, the high tech kind that can replace metals, is exactly that: High tech. Metals are good because they can do several things reasonbly well without much work. I'd use other materials (like wood) on a low-metal world before resorting to "ceramics". Lashed bamboo is amazingly strong for a construction material. Variants on this idea may help.
tecnowraith
First Post
tjoneslo said:
Ohh I got ideas for zepplins and balloons. I'm thinking doing the Frakenstien or Biomechanical route for most of the ships. I using ceramanics for alot of reasons in my world and their is a good reason why there there is little metal which I do not want give away at the moment.
I thought about the fluids and I have odd and unique design aspect now.
tecnowraith
First Post
Ok these some ideas and advice and I will be using them in an odd way.
tecnowraith
First Post
Ok I just realized what can do with the ships. Believe ot or not, you guys/gals helped. The process is electricity and ceramics with the form of electromagnetics, think of speakers.
Similar Threads
