Thread:Wingstrike/@comment-26318290-20150423122152/@comment-4851119-20150423204658

Another Poetic Spartan wrote: Beam weapons Particle beam weaponry isn't that far out of reach today. advanced cloning Total Annihilation: The ARM can clone pilots in seconds and jam them into combat machines which are nanofabricated in seconds. Said pilots are cloned from the most grizzled veterans of a 4000-year war which strip-mined an entire galaxy to the point where both sides were literally running out of resources. space travel PFFFT

You think space travel is high-tech? By that logic lasers are high-tech. regenerative medicine EVE laughs at this and continues on its merry way. Capsuleers don't need regenerative medicine because they can just help the injured on their way and slap a dead Capsuleer's mind into a cloned body. I can give dozens of examples from other sci-fi series that are far into the future and have yet to reach technological levels such as this. But I'll only give a few. And I'll see that and raise you Gunbuster Humanity who between 2015 and 2048, that's within the span of a human lifetime, developed
 * propulsion systems based on pure mathematics powered by uplifted Psychic dolphins
 * mass-produced mecha which can dogfight at relativistic velocities, with power outputs comparable to the sun
 * lasers capable of destroying planets with near misses
 * Buster Machine 3, whose detonation destroyed 20% of the galaxy
 * Physical Cancellers. Other sci-fi bribes, subverts or loopholes physics. Gunbuster humanity just tells physics to bugger off and come back when it's learned to play college ball.

And that's not even getting into the insanity that is Nono. 00 has Quantum Travel. Quantum Travel is possibly one of the most technological advancements ever achieved. Hands down. Why? Instantaneous Travel. Quantum Travel has no limiting range, and can potentially reach anywhere with the correct coordinates. You are ignoring the fact that Setsuna traveled to the ELS Homeworld instantly. For all we know, the ELS Homeworld could be located in the farthest reaches of the Galaxy. The 2003 Battlestar Galactica's FTL is more or less instantaneous travel, we have this as direct Word of God from the creators of the show. nBSG is one of the bottom dogs of science fiction, with their fleets fighting what essentially amount to WW2 naval battles in space, shooting chemically-propelled rounds no less.

Also Supreme Commander. Quantum Tunnelling seems to take a few seconds or minutes regardless of distance. Conventional Space Travel, and/or FTL (Faster Than Light), is leagues behind Quantum Teleportation/Travel because while QT is practically instantaneous whereas FTL can take hours, days, weeks, months, and even years for a person to reach their intended destination. FTL speeds don't tell us much. The Culture have some of the slower FTL speeds in sci-fi, and there's nothing that any Gundam franchise, Turn series super-civilization included, could do to so much as touch them. *Warhammer 40k: In a story that takes place in the year 40,000. FTL Travel in this universe can be take days or even months or years to reach a planet. For the Imperium of Man, yes. The Necrons travel much faster, and have much more accurate and predictable FTL due to not using the Warp. And how long Warp Travel takes, as well as its accuracy, is unpredictable and inconsistent just because of what the Warp is, though generally it is on the order of months to cross very long distances.

And I might point out that the 41st Millenium Imperium is not as advanced as it once was. Back before the Age of Strife in the 29th Millenium, Humanity in the Age of Technology was massively more advanced. Even in the supremely technologically advanced Star Wars Universe Assuming you mean old canon here, because Disney Canon has far less going for it. How? The ELS use Quantum Communication! How is instantly communicating with each other through vast distances (light years, one side of the Galaxy to the other in mere seconds) low tech? The use of quantum entanglement for instantaneous communication, while not possible with current technology, is rooted in real science. And plenty of settings have FTL comms without it (for example the Holonet from Star Wars).