[quote=@Jig] Is beautiful. Heads-up on my plans: the Scandiwegian territories are cold and bleak and there's a hell of a lot of not-terribly-much there to do or see, unless you like unfriendly locals and snow. The jewel in the crown of the Empire is the colony off the coast of North America, which basically prostrates itself for tourists and business and sees people from all over the world - so it's seedy, but has nice weather and reflects very well on the Empire it now belongs to. For Pre-Cataclysm tech, how unreasonable is one big huge shiny fuckoff tank? I get that OP is OP, but you're the judge of OP, so here's what I have in mind: [list][*] It's enormous. [*] It has literally never been used. [*] Nobody knows if it's actually any good (practical) or not. [*] Was literally shipped from the Eastern territories to the island off the coast of North America as a tourist attraction and a threat to anybody looking at the island. [*] Since it's on an island, its functions are purely defensive - if it even works.[/list] Alternatively, I was thinking about maybe looking at Zeppelins (not both: either Zeppelins or Tank). Do we have any guidelines on how viable and advanced Zeppelins can be even as non-military modes of transport? [/quote]This is a common issue so excuse me for using you as a device but I say it now. The setting is more like 1950s retro sci-fi. You aren't hard limited by equipment from the 50s. You can have spider legged walker tanks and other weird vehicles all you want. So far all technologies listed as "pre-war" are pretty much wrong and would rather seem like something you can normally attain here. A big tank might be difficult to impossible to make nowadays but that doesn't mean they are out of question here. Ever heard of the P1000 Ratte and P1500 Monster type landships? They were gigantic tanks imagined up by the Germans for future warfare. You can pretty much have the more "modern" equivalent of this.