Transportation Technologies of Charted Space

Sophont species, with few exceptions, are born with a baseline movement means and develop other means of locomotion, or movement, using technology to develop vehicles.

• For most planetary species, this means walkers, sophonts who traverse the solid surface of a world using various numbers of legs and peds.
• However, many other forms of locomotion exist for sophonts including: Swimming, flying, digging, amphibious locomotion, triphibious locomotion, and even more exotic means of movement.
• But all lifeforms are limited to their physiological means of locomotion until they develop vehicles using technology.
• Via technology, a sophont species may learn to traverse any environment including jumpspace or even pocket universes.

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Please see the following AAB articles for more information:

• Locomotion (Movement)
  • Transportation Types by Environment
    • Land Environment (Landcraft)
      • Solid Surface Vehicles (Cars)
      • Subterranean Vehicles (Diggers)
    • Sea Environment (Seacraft)
      • Liquid Surface Vehicles (Marine Ships)
      • Liquid Subsurface Vehicles (Submarines)
    • Air Environment (Aircraft)
      • Gaseous Heavier than Air Vehicles (Airplanes)
      • Gaseous Lighter than Air Vehicles (Airships)
    • Exotic Environment (Exotic-craft)
      • Fluid World Craft
      • Hellworld Craft
      • Multi-environment Vehicles
        • Amphibianic Vehicles
        • Triphibianic Vehicles
    • Space / Vacuum Environment (Spacecraft & Starcraft)
      • Spaceships (NAFAL)
      • Starships (FTL)
        • Jump Drive

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Description (Specifications)

Vehicles are one of the key technologies that sophonts use to extend the range of their permissible environments. Through transportation technologies, a means to get there, and habitational technologies, a means to make an environment comfortable, a sophont species may populate not only their homeworld, but their stellar system and beyond.

Developmental Transportation Technology Paths

Many different locomotary technology paths exist for various sophont species exist, but a common one for walkers is:

• Land 》 sea 》air 》space 》stars

Or:

• Ecotope 》Continent 》Ocean 》Atmosphere 》Space 》Stellar System 》Far System 》Stars 》Jumpspace 》Galactic Branch 》Galaxy 》Universe 》Alternate Dimension 》Singularity

Transportation Types

• Locomotion (Movement)
  • Transportation Types by Environment
    • Land Environment (Landcraft)
      • Solid Surface Vehicles (Cars)
      • Subterranean Vehicles (Diggers)
    • Sea Environment (Seacraft)
      • Liquid Surface Vehicles (Marine Ships)
      • Liquid Subsurface Vehicles (Submarines)
    • Air Environment (Aircraft)
      • Gaseous Heavier than Air Vehicles (Airplanes)
      • Gaseous Lighter than Air Vehicles (Airships)
    • Exotic Environment (Exotic-craft)
      • Fluid World Craft
      • Hellworld Craft
      • Multi-environment Vehicles
        • Amphibianic Vehicles
        • Triphibianic Vehicles

History & Background (Dossier)

One of the hallmarks of the vast majority of higher intelligent species is a curiosity or drive to learn more... about everything! Curious sophonts develop technology and then use that technology to modify and explore their surroundings. Vehicles are a natural evolution of that curiosity. Vehicles are a tool by which a species can expand the range of its available environments.

Transportation Technology

Transportation Tech Comparison

TTL	G3TL	G4TL	Land	Water	Air	Space
0	0	0	Foot - Animals	Raft / Canoe	-	-
1	1-3	1-3	Wheel - Carts/Chariots	Rowed Galleys, Crude Sailing Vessels	-	-
2	4	4	Advanced Wheel - Moveable Axle, Replaceable Rims	Early Multi-Mast Sailing, Crude Navigation	-	-
3	5	5	Extensive Road - High-Speed Coach	Multi-Mast Sailing, Navigation	Hot Air Balloons	-
4	5	6	Trains	Ironclads, Steamships	Dirigibles, Early Gliders	-
5	6	6	Ground Cars, Tracked Vehicles	Personal Self-Propelled Boats, Steel hulls, Early Submersibles	Airplanes, Seaplanes	Early Rockets (unmanned)
6	6	7	Amphibian Vehicles, ATVs AFVs	Submersibles, Scuba, Amphibian Vehicles	Early Jet, Helicopters	Early Manned Rockets, Unmanned Rockets
7	7	7	Hovercraft, High-Speed Trains	Hydrofoils, Hovercraft	Supersonic Jet, Hang Gliders	Deep Space Probes (Unmanned), Maneuver-1/2 (non-gravitic)
8	7	8	Triphibian Vehicles	Triphibian Vehicles, Early Artificial Gills	Triphibian Vehicles, Hypersonic Jet	Space Shuttles, Space Stations, Maneuver-3-5 (non-grav)
9	8	9	Early Grav Vehicles, Ultra High-Speed Trains	Early Grav Vehicles, Artificial Gills	Early Grav Vehicles, Rocket Assist Suborbital	Jump-1 possible, Sublight Stellar
10	9	10	Grav Vehicles		UH Grav Modules	Gravitic Maneuver , Jump-1 certain
11	9	10	Personal G-Tubes, HV Grav Modules			Jump-2, Thruster Technology
12	10	11	Personal Grav Belts, LT Grav Modules			Jump-3
13	10	11	Grav Vehicles Merge with Orbital Spacecraft, Jump-4
14	11	12	Jump-5
15	12	12	Jump-6
16	-	-	Raw Material Only Short Range Matter Transport
17	-	-	Inanimate Only Short Range Matter Transport
18	-	-	Self-Aware Starships, living being portal based Matter Transport
21	-	-	Multi Parsec Range Starship-Sized Matter Transport Portals

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