Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-15888551-20130819093722/@comment-16597738-20130825211004

DarthOrc wrote: VAULTEER wrote: War created engineering marvels in RL during the Medieval times, although most of it was to do with war. But beyond that nothing was ever really gained during the dark times, it was after the wars, during the Renaissance where tremendous non-military feats were performed. It was a mostly calm time, but only fueled the current state of the world. Rich get richer, poor get poorer, etc.

Tamriel is still in those dark times where people fight for honour, victory, and general wealth instead of oil and "Freedom". They have everything they could need, people can make a fortune from one adventure, with no banks and police getting involved wondering where you found that pile of money. The Renaissance was anything but peaceful. There were many wars, both in Europe and elsewhere. They were what fueled the changes in shipbuilding that allowed the "Age of Exploration" and greatly improved artillery and firearms.

The last decades of the Renassiance also saw the start of the European colonial expansion and the associated wars.

Wars bring about technology changes by showing a need in the field. Tanks were talked about before the war, as a kind of moving fortress. But the war made industry creat a way to make them work. Airplanes had military uses before WWI. The first ones were used as scouts, watching enemy movements or finding enemy positions. The first attempts to put machine-guns on aircraft tended to shoot the propellers off the hostile aircraft, Not good at 1000 feet, or at any altitude. So they developed a way to make the weapon's fire in sync with the propellers.

Since the age of industrialization, there has been so much new technology in every war. Tanks, submarines, artillery, airplanes saw their introduction. Many of these things already existed, but research and development were greatly increased. In WWII, radio communications, flight technology, missile technology, refrigeration, nuclear/atomic all saw their international premiere as a commercial technology shortly after. The Cold War technology included everything regarding the "space age", including further advancement of radios, introduction of computers, satellite communications, et cetera.