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.
Please see the following AAB articles for more information:
- Locomotion (Movement)
- Transportation Types by Environment
- Land Environment (Landcraft)
- Sea Environment (Seacraft)
- Liquid Surface Vehicles (Marine Ships)
- Liquid Subsurface Vehicles (Submarines)
- Air Environment (Aircraft)
- Exotic Environment (Exotic-craft)
- Fluid World Craft
- Hellworld Craft
- Multi-environment Vehicles
- Space / Vacuum Environment (Spacecraft & Starcraft)
- Transportation Types by Environment
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)
- Sea Environment (Seacraft)
- Liquid Surface Vehicles (Marine Ships)
- Liquid Subsurface Vehicles (Submarines)
- Air Environment (Aircraft)
- Exotic Environment (Exotic-craft)
- Fluid World Craft
- Hellworld Craft
- Multi-environment Vehicles
- Transportation Types by Environment
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. Mature sophonts learn how to master the art of spaceflight and starflight.
Transportation Technology
| 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 | |
| 11 | 9 | 10 | Personal G-Tubes, HV Grav Modules | Jump-2, Thruster Technology[1] | ||
| 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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