Posted: August 31, 2000 at 00:37:09: by Steve Faust
: : Good old fashioned commerce comes to mind. They explorers have run into several cultures on the plateau that are metallurgically advanced enough to manufacture all but the most complex of alloys. Even though they cannot pop in to Bullets R Us every time they want to reload, they should be able to barter for the crude materials without a problem. The only question would be the proverbial "what do you want for a gross of shell casings...": :Polly Anna Good point. Those Japanese warriors were using traditional weapons. That means a very high order steel industry. Of course, given the real resources of the plateau, would that industry be any more probable than the cultures themselves?
Faustus
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