Sniper Scopes

New to forum. Reading Book 7 - LAMA
But a few things may be lurking about.
Target scopes for rifles?
Gatling gun (as someone previously noted).
Punji Sticks. (I know. It may be against the proscriptions.)Along with Guerrilla warfare actions used in the occupied territories. Think: Free French and Viet-Cong.
Manual Typewriter. Vacuum tube communications (like in banks and skyscrapers).
rickshaws. MRE's or K and J rations?

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TN4994 wrote:New to forum. Reading Book 7 - LAMA
But a few things may be lurking about.
Target scopes for rifles?
Gatling gun (as someone previously noted).
Punji Sticks. (I know. It may be against the proscriptions.)Along with Guerrilla warfare actions used in the occupied territories. Think: Free French and Viet-Cong.
Manual Typewriter. Vacuum tube communications (like in banks and skyscrapers).
rickshaws. MRE's or K and J rations?

TN4994 wrote:New to forum. Reading Book 7 - LAMA
But a few things may be lurking about.
Target scopes for rifles?
Gatling gun (as someone previously noted).
Punji Sticks. (I know. It may be against the proscriptions.)Along with Guerrilla warfare actions used in the occupied territories. Think: Free French and Viet-Cong.
Manual Typewriter. Vacuum tube communications (like in banks and skyscrapers).
rickshaws. MRE's or K and J rations?

Scopes will come in as more soldiers are issued rifles. The sharpshooters will definitely use them.

Gatling/machine guns will eventually be developed and used, but not for this part of the series I think. It was only 5 years ago (in the books) that Merlin showed up and they were still using matchlock/flintlock muskets and primitive cannon. In 20 years, there's no doubt they will have gatlings or machine guns.

There is already guerrilla activity going on in Siddarmark. Punji sticks wouldn't get anymore condemnation than anything else is. The fighting there is extremely vicious and nasty.

A manual typewriter will be developed within the next 20 years.

Vacuum tube communicators (radios I am assuming) will -not- be developed. The reason is the inner circle and Merlin suspect that electricity and definitely any radio communications will automatically attract the attention of the orbiting bombardment system. Until they know the parameters of the obs they will not allow any development of electrical power or radios.

And welcome to the forums.

Zakharra wrote:

TN4994 wrote:New to forum. Reading Book 7 - LAMA
But a few things may be lurking about.
Target scopes for rifles?
Gatling gun (as someone previously noted).
Punji Sticks. (I know. It may be against the proscriptions.)Along with Guerrilla warfare actions used in the occupied territories. Think: Free French and Viet-Cong.
Manual Typewriter. Vacuum tube communications (like in banks and skyscrapers).
rickshaws. MRE's or K and J rations?

Scopes will come in as more soldiers are issued rifles. The sharpshooters will definitely use them.

Gatling/machine guns will eventually be developed and used, but not for this part of the series I think. It was only 5 years ago (in the books) that Merlin showed up and they were still using matchlock/flintlock muskets and primitive cannon. In 20 years, there's no doubt they will have gatlings or machine guns.

There is already guerrilla activity going on in Siddarmark. Punji sticks wouldn't get anymore condemnation than anything else is. The fighting there is extremely vicious and nasty.

A manual typewriter will be developed within the next 20 years.

Vacuum tube communicators (radios I am assuming) will -not- be developed. The reason is the inner circle and Merlin suspect that electricity and definitely any radio communications will automatically attract the attention of the orbiting bombardment system. Until they know the parameters of the obs they will not allow any development of electrical power or radios.

And welcome to the forums.

I believe our newcomer is referring to vacuum tubes as pneumatic message transport that was common between different floors in old skyscrapers - not to vacuum filled electronics of the early radio or tv.

Ksandgren got my comment on the air tubes. Sorry about the confusion with electric vacuum tubes.

TN4994 wrote:New to forum. Reading Book 7 - LAMA
But a few things may be lurking about.
Target scopes for rifles?
Gatling gun (as someone previously noted).
Punji Sticks. (I know. It may be against the proscriptions.)Along with Guerrilla warfare actions used in the occupied territories. Think: Free French and Viet-Cong.
Manual Typewriter. Vacuum tube communications (like in banks and skyscrapers).
rickshaws. MRE's or K and J rations?

I seem to remember that the city of Paris (in the real world) had a pneumatic tube&cylinder message system that encompassed the entire city in the 1930s. It wasn't limited to stores and large buildings, but was available to the general public for sending messages in the same way a telegram used to be. Where we used to refer to sending a telegram, the French would refer to sending a "Pneumatique"
This technology would certainly be attainable, at least in cities, on Safehold.
Philip Stanley

Philip's mention of Paris is informative. A quick search shows Jules Verne envisioned trans-Atlantic transit via a pneumatic tube. In America politics ended the dream of the Beach Pneumatic Transit Company. Since electricity is prohibited; perhaps an undersea trunkline of ten or more mail tubes connecting the Empire of Charis?
Also, Safehold has machinery using wheels and bearings, I see a messenger service using skateboards.
It's a case of mind set, using set rules.

It won't happen. Aside from the problem of doing that in the real world much less Safehold, you need to remember the time constraints. In twenty years everything is probably going to be decided(See return of the Archangels), laying thousands of miles of pipe all over the ocean floor is a decades long task, and couldn't even be considered except in peace time, which is years away at best.

Now it's been mentioned I'm surprised they don't have typewriters already. They've had type and a print industry for a long time, maybe forever, and manual typewriters are muscle powered machines which don't go near the proscriptions. I guess they might have been very expensive to produce on a craft basis.

TN4994 wrote:Philip's mention of Paris is informative. A quick search shows Jules Verne envisioned trans-Atlantic transit via a pneumatic tube. In America politics ended the dream of the Beach Pneumatic Transit Company. Since electricity is prohibited; perhaps an undersea trunkline of ten or more mail tubes connecting the Empire of Charis?
Also, Safehold has machinery using wheels and bearings, I see a messenger service using skateboards.
It's a case of mind set, using set rules.

Bicycle's are more efficient (and faster too). Bicycles have military applications as well as a cyclist can carry more weight, faster than a cavalryman, on good roads, for a lower cost (off road the horse has a small advantage but needs food). It does require good quality steel tube to make it happen but Charis should be on the edge of this now.
A cyclist can deliver a round couple of hundred kilos whilst riding a bike on good roads and move the same amount on rough tracks whilst walking the bike. The NVA demonstrated this a few million times during the Vietnam War and other armies have used them repeatedly as an alternative to motorized transport (the US Army is not one of them - the lack of good (or any)roads scuppered the attempt). Safehold, by the textev, indicates the roads are present so bicycles are definitely an option. (Anywhere you can take a wagon train you can take a bicycle, particularly after the wagon has just gone through).
A Tour de Charis could be on the horizon.