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Erik L:
I imagine some great hue and outcry when the first Alien Stomping Legion with their new-fangled Nuclear Pulse Engines get stomped. Then the military R&D kicks in.

I think the biggest challenge would be deciding exactly what consitutes military tech. Engines? Sensors?

Hmmm that might be an interesting sub-thread.

Brian Neumann:
Most of the time there is a small percentage of work that continues on purely mlitary tech.  For aurora perhaps a roughly 1% of the labs can be used to research military related tech.  Perhaps a 5% limit on the total number of such projects.  As they would be generally in the 1-5 lab per project and only a few projects would be worked on.  Any system used by commercial ships could be reasearched without any rp penalty.  For systems that could be considered dual use. (active or pasive sensors ect)  Only 1 project with no more than 1/2 the labs available able to be set on the project.  Actual system prototype would for military stuff come under the 1-5 labs limit which would tend to increase how long it takes to prototype.  Also retooling of shipyards could only be done during wartime for military designs, or when major upgrades are possible (ie engines, fire control, ect) then there could be 1 shpyard retooled every few game years (sya three to five years between starts for retooling).

All of ths would allow some upgrade of military tech, just not a lot of it when a nation was at peace.

Brian

OAM47:
I'd say engines are fine, but sensors... maybe active shall be classified as military.

Panopticon:
I'd say let sensors and engines be researched, look at it as the military types sneaking in upgrades via the research of supposedly civilian tech, perhaps don't actually research the actual hardware until hostilities break out though.

Alfapiomega:
I really like this idea but wouldn't that lead to extreme casualties during the first years of war? What if there was no conflict for decades, the gap then would be extreme.  Therefore I like the idea of minimized but still existing research.
Humans are mostly drawn to protect themselves and if there is enemy who has weapons they will try to have more weapons. 
The same now even when there are only humans vs.  humans.

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