A lot of the stuff in the 3075 and '85 TRs are coming off experience gained through the fires of the Jihad. That can't possibly last to the 3130s, can it?
I was reading through the thread and I came to that, and it made me think. I am not familiar with the Dark Age stuff, at all, my gaming group plays 3039 and earlier 99% of the time, occasionally pulling out some 3050 sheets, BUT...in BT fiction, people are routinely pulling out 5-600 year old tech and making it work...to me, the idea that in a 50 year time span everything went backward that quickly, seems a bit off. I can't remember where I read it, it's in one of the rule books, but there is a guy plowing a field, in a 600 year old John Deere tractor.