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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 2386608" data-attributes="member: 14159">Since Twilight 2000 eventually becomes the future of Traveller (at least one version), this makes complete sense.  This very discussion has come up in regard to post-apocalypic games in my gaming group as well (T:2000 only tangentally, since our club only has one of the suppliments for it, a weapons book i think).Now, things that require advanced fabrication technologies, like computers, might be in short supply for quite a while until new factories for chips ect. can be made, but guns and fuel can be made relatively easily (black powder could be made with 1000 year old technology and there are other options for fuel besides gasoline, like biodiesel which can be made from vegetable oil, lye and methanol, all easily made at low levels of technology, or of course ethanol for fuel).It's worth noting that in WWII, the Dutch resistance made simple submachine guns using just the simple machine shop they had in a bicycle repair store.  The Wright brothers made the first plane mostly out of technology they had available as bicycle craftsmen too.It wouldn't be pretty, but yes, it would be easier to rebuild than some people think.</blockquote>