Cultural Extension

The Cultural Extension or Cx is a gross measure of a world's culture in generalized terms.

Description (Specifications)

It is a measure of Cultural Proximity or deviation for average normative galactic cultural universals in as much as Charted Space truly has averages or universals.

Cultural Extension Parameters

• Homogeneity: degree to which members of society hold common beliefs.
  • Members of very homogeneous cultures are in strong agreement on the fundamentals of society (usually basic rights, religion, and methods of interaction).
  • Members of non-homogeneous cultures hold many different beliefs on the fundamentals of society.
• Acceptance: degree of xenophobia (or xenophilia) in the culture.
  • High Acceptance is evidenced by friendliness to outsiders and offworlders;
  • Low Acceptance is characterized by fear or rejection of outsiders.
• Strangeness: degree of difference from the norms of interstellar society.
  • High Strangeness is evidenced by unusual or outwardly incomprehensible actions, statements, or responses in the course daily activity.
  • Low Strangeness reflects activities close to interstellar norms.
• Symbols: may range from the concrete (idols; totems; statuary) to the abstract (symbolized belief systems; group affiliations).

History & Background (Dossier)

The Office of the Emperor, the Imperial Bureaucracy, the Imperial Interstellar Scout Service, the Merchant Service, the Educational Institutes, and many other interstellar organizations use this data for governance, interstellar economy, world surveys, and other tasks.

References & Contributors (Sources)

This article is missing content for one or more detailed sections. Additional details are required to complete the article. You can help the Traveller Wiki by expanding it.

This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Far Future Enterprises or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• Marc Miller. T5 Core Rules (Far Future Enterprises, 2013), 411.
• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science