Imperial Research...

[The Hinterworlds Rambler]

Ancient Studies
Anti-Missile Sand Chaff
Anti-Missile Sand Bearings
EM Scatter Feild
Disintegrators
Grey Globe (IMTU)
Black Globe
White Globe
Teleportation
Jump Radio
Artificial Intelligence
Genetics
Extended Power Plants
Biosynthetics
Future Armor
Future Infantry
Advanced Fighters
Supercarriers
Advanced Planetary Defense
Cryptography
Time Travel
Intelligence Theory
Advanced Grav Tech
Antimatter
Psychohistory
Long Range Detection
Black Hole Studies
Nth Dimensional Space Studies (IMTU)
Advanced Starship Architecture
Practical Invisibility
Personal Force Feilds
New Starship Facilities

Any other suggestions? Did I miss anything?

 

[jappel]

How about terraforming? We know from various sources that it's practiced to one degree or another (crashing comets into Thisbe in the Spinward Marches, for example). It seems reasonable that there would be enough terraforming across the breadth of the Imperium to warrant a program.

And aside from genetics and biosynthetics, life sciences seem to be ignored. How about Immunology, Advanced Medical Application, Xenobiology (meaning in this case anything living in a biosphere - maybe "panxenobiology"?)

Hmm, I don't see psionics... Or is this just the list for public comsumption?

John

 

[mike wightman]

Psionics (mentioned in a few places)
Artificial psionics (mentioned in Regency Sourcebook)
Breaking the jump 6 barrier
Jump gates (discovered at the begining of the 3rd Imperium - research must be ongoing)
Controlled misjumps
Electronic personality transfer (next step up from the personality overlay machine)
Nano factories (the Darrians have one)
Tractor beams
Brain transplants
Star Trigger
Terraforming

 

[The Hinterworlds Rambler]

"Star Trigger" is that a Gas Giant Igniter, or a Star System Destroyer?

 

[Andrew Boulton]

It's the Darrian suntan machine...

 

[mike wightman]

 

[Straybow]

It's the "Star Wars blows up planets, but we can blow up the sun, so we're even cooler" way of one-upping that hump George Lucas.

 

[kafka47]

Getting back to the topic at hand...

The Imperium also researches:

Artifacts from the time of the Ancient races.
Deadly computer viruses
Magic
Parallel universes
Psionics in all its organic forms.
Strange Matter

 

[Straybow]

I hope they're researching what happens to all the socks that disappear in the laundry.

Hmmm... maybe that's what kafka47 means when he says the Imperium researches Magic and Parallel Universes.

 

[jasper]

improved jump. Either less the time jump takes, or the variable time/distance a jump takes.
Advanced life support. (less supplies for life support lower cold sleep risk)

 

[kafka47]

Parallel universes are set up in canon, as being official variants from the OTU. GURPS Traveller presents us with a ready made parallel universe...and given how GURPS is linked to the whole range of Infinite Universes or Multiverse there can be endless combinations. The precedent is further applicable to the conversion of Dark Conspiracy & Cadallacs and Dinos with the TNE rules...not mention the one when Earth undergoes WWIII instead of Perestroika...

Magic, I am more hazy about, if you look at the old Library Data supplement or one of the Adventures...it makes mention that IRs study "Magic" (whether this hi-tech gagets that seem like Magic or is indicative of a larger phenomena associated with the universe's Ley Lines...I would leave it for the individual referee to decide...)