05-20-2013, 08:10 AM
As far as the use of Orion pulse craft in OA, the Cybiota use them - they aren't particularly bothered by EMP effects since they mostly use biotechology in their civilisation, such as it is.
http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/480d35f9a8ecd
Perhaps some of the lost and isolated colonies that were cut off by the Version War and other major events, like the Oracle War and the Gehenna event, were forced back to a 20th century level of technology; a quick and dirty way to get back into an interplanetary stage of development would be to use boom-boom ships into orbit.
http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/480d35f9a8ecd
Perhaps some of the lost and isolated colonies that were cut off by the Version War and other major events, like the Oracle War and the Gehenna event, were forced back to a 20th century level of technology; a quick and dirty way to get back into an interplanetary stage of development would be to use boom-boom ships into orbit.