Jupiter Ascending

[DickNervous]

Has anyone else seen the latest movie from the (insert adjective of choice here) minds of the Wachowskis (ya know, the people who made the Matrix)? I just saw it and while it wasn't nearly as good as The Matrix, it wasn't, IMHO, as bad as people made it out to be. Though I think it is the first movie that the character played by Sean Bean (Ned Stark from GoT) doesn't actually die in....

Anyway, this isn't a movie review per se, but a discussion on some of the cool futuristic gadgets and tech they had in the movie. My favorites were the following:

There were all used by the character Caine Wise (played by Channing Tatum):

Gravity Boots which allowed him to "surf" in the air. But they were more than that. They also could heat up an object and work somewhat like Iron Man's repulsors in a fight. They worked by re-directing gravitational forces and were controlled by his movement and what appeared to be a holographic control in his hand.

Energy Shield which seemed like a small force field that centered around a generator on his writs and he could turn on/off very quickly and it stopped just about anyhting.

Portable Hole is the only way to describe it. He placed a device on a surface and after a few moments it made a portal in it to the other side without causing any damage. It would stay open until he closed it, again with a controller in his hand.

As I watched I was wondering what Tech Level would those things be and how could they be fit into the Traveller universe.....

 

[Condottiere]

Seems a Cinderellaized update of Masters of the Universe. The British actors seemed to be quite professional, and the outer space CGI very Duneish and 40Kish, and worth looking at.

Other than that, it probably is a movie only the feminists love.

 

[mike wightman]

I loved it.

The technology is what a TL12+ world in Traveller should look like to us.

As to the gadgets - TL20

 

[aramis]

Gravity Boots probably around TL13-14 - miniaturization of the grav modules from the TL 9 baseline.

Personal Energy Shield: canonically ≥TL20

Portable Hole: sounds like a variation on the TL 22 teleport disks from SOTA...

 

[savage]

I finally watched this. I enjoyed it. But not certain why feminists would prefer it?
Yeah a bit of cinderella thrown in. Nothing wrong with that.

Some great Traveller going on in this film. Possibly far, far future 5I:

• grav boots
• personal shields/shields
• portable holes
• advanced robotics
• jump or warp gates,
• advanced city gravitics and env control.
• a city world
• Body suit space suits
• a winged reptilian race
• genetic manipulation
• cloaking in atmo
• anti-aging tech
• memory manipulation
• cyborg tech
• some high guard style work
• some form of subspace/intergalactic communications

 

[Vargas]

From the trailers I thought it was more Banks' Culture novels than Traveller but what the hey . . .

 

[savage]

Haven't read them. There is no documented record of the far, far, far future. So, who knows.

 

[Quint]

Watched it, enjoyed it, thought the only real problem was that it was two or three movies crammed into one.

If CT is Outlands & Alien/s then Jupiter is Mongoose Traveller.

D.

 

[Otto Harkaman]

I couldn't understand what anyone was saying, very confusing until I read spoilers.

 

[tjoneslo]

Portable Hole is the only way to describe it. He placed a device on a surface and after a few moments it made a portal in it to the other side without causing any damage. It would stay open until he closed it, again with a controller in his hand.

I just saw the movie for the first time. This is an interesting form of matter manipulation. I would best describe it to be a variation on the theme of Flash (the DC superhero) doing the vibrate his molecules to pass through walls. The matter in the wall becomes transparent to other matter, allowing things to pass through. When the field effect is removed, the matter reverts back to it's normal form.

In the middle part of the movie you see the same (or similar) effect used as a spaceship air lock. which makes me think at large scale you can control the density of matter to allow the spaceship in but not allow the air out.

Based upon other technologies, this is probably a TL20+ technology too.