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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SKyOdin" data-source="post: 5210068" data-attributes="member: 57939">And I think this is where our disagreement is coming from. When I say Fusion Age, I am talking about a setting that takes place several centuries from now where the terraformation of planets like Mars and Venus is already nearing completion. At this point, we are not just talking about technology that exists in the modern day or near future; we are reaching into the realm past the foreseeable future. For one thing, advanced sci-fi materials that exceed the capabilities of modern ones aren't just a possibility, they are necessary to justify elements of the setting such as orbital elevators. Furthermore, garrowolf has already stated that there are fusion reactors the size of a large table in his setting, which makes it very easy for vehicles past a certain size to have on-board Fusion reactors. By this point, it is even conceivable for there to be some kind of deflector shield technology (albeit not based on gravity manipulation). Alternatively, something like Phase Shift armor from Gundam SEED: a kind of advanced physical armor that uses electrical power in some way to make it highly resistant to damage from kinetic impacts.For me, the Fusion Age exists in the grey area between the perfect realism of the modern day, and the "everything goes, forget the laws of physics" nature of far flung interstellar sci-fi (the Gravity Age and beyond).</blockquote>