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Tagged with steampunk technological-development
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How Would a Spacefaring Civilization Using No Electricity Communicate?
I'm working on a civilization who was born out of a century-long interstellar war with an AI. So they had previously developed electrical and digital technology but now they're avoiding using any of ...
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Is there development of advanced polymers/composite materials?
Background: seeking modern technologies, resources, etc that could potentially be discovered and applied in a fantasy setting where manufacturing processes, while advanced, are more akin to the late ...
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Advanced mechanical engineering without electricity in a traditionally medieval fantasy setting?
Could you have advanced mechanical engineering without, say, advanced electrical engineering accompanying it? Thick clockwork, clickety clackety stuff, does it need steam/electricity by default? How ...
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What are the technologies which has a prerequest of quantum mechanics [closed]
I'm thinking about a world where the planet was wrapped by a force field that experiments which lead to quantum mechanics and special relativity gives the false result. I'm wondering what technology ...
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Steampunk Lamia Technology [closed]
Lamia in this case describes a race of sapient beings who are human from the waist up, and have a snake body from the waist down. If more detail is necessary, their anatomy and physiology would be ...
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Could a steam engine be built in ancient greece?
Provided that for some irrelevant reason, the people understand the principles behind these engines. Would they be able to construct them with the available technology?
EDIT: I do not mean an ...
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Steam-Punk society with other society using only electric.
I want to produce a video game, (first person adventure) where the world is occupied by two types of nation. One uses almost only to steam powered technology and the other only electric.
I want the ...
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How to conquer challenger deep using steam engine?
During the invention of steam engine the mayor decided to make his town popular and lively again by announcing he is going to stick a flag at the deepest and wettest place on Earth, the challenger ...
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Fall of steampunk
Imagine a world where steampunk has been taken to a highly advanced level. Gears and cogs and all that fun stuff, on both massive and minuscule scales. Now destroy that civilization. Earth split ...
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Steampunk...In a Realistic Timeline
Perhaps one of the most popular flavors of worldbuilding is steampunk, which is basically today's technology under Victorian attitude, architecture and materials. The clear inspiration for steampunk'...
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Is an electropunk society possible?
As part of my Worldbuilding experiment, I'm creating a steampunk world. I intend for most of the technology to run on classic steampunk mechanisms - mostly mechanical contraptions.
However, ...
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What would need to happen to history to make a 21st century steampunk world?
Everybody loves steampunk. Without reading the Wikipedia page, the main idea of steampunk is a world (usually 19th century or thereabouts) where steam power is used universally, and computers as we ...
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