Difference between revisions of "Tech Level Comparison Chart"
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|Rowed [[Wikipedia:Galley|Galleys]], Crude Sailing Vessels | |Rowed [[Wikipedia:Galley|Galleys]], Crude Sailing Vessels | ||
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|Advanced Wheel - Moveable Axle, Replaceable Rims | |Advanced Wheel - Moveable Axle, Replaceable Rims | ||
− | |Early Multi-Mast Sailing | + | |Early Multi-Mast Sailing, Oceangoing sailing ships, Crude Navigation, Stagecoachs |
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− | |Extensive Road | + | |Extensive Road - High-Speed Coach |
− | |Multi-Mast Sailing | + | |Multi-Mast Sailing, Navigation |
|Manned [[Hot Air Balloon]]s | |Manned [[Hot Air Balloon]]s | ||
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|[[Wikipedia:Train|Trains]] | |[[Wikipedia:Train|Trains]] | ||
|[[Wikipedia:Ironclad|Ironclads]], [[Wikipedia:Steamship|Steamships]] | |[[Wikipedia:Ironclad|Ironclads]], [[Wikipedia:Steamship|Steamships]] | ||
− | |[[Wikipedia:Dirigible|Dirigibles]] | + | |[[Wikipedia:Dirigible|Dirigibles]], Early [[Wikipedia:Glider|Gliders]] |
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|Submersibles, [[Wikipedia:Scuba|Scuba]], Amphibian Vehicles | |Submersibles, [[Wikipedia:Scuba|Scuba]], Amphibian Vehicles | ||
|Early Jet, [[Wikipedia:Helicopter|Helicopters]] | |Early Jet, [[Wikipedia:Helicopter|Helicopters]] | ||
− | |Early Manned [[Wikipedia:Rocket|Rockets]] | + | |Early Manned [[Wikipedia:Rocket|Rockets]], [[Unmanned Rocket]]s |
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|Early [[Gravity control technology|Grav Vehicles]], [[Artificial Gill]]s | |Early [[Gravity control technology|Grav Vehicles]], [[Artificial Gill]]s | ||
|Early [[Gravity control technology|Grav Vehicles]], Rocket Assist Suborbital | |Early [[Gravity control technology|Grav Vehicles]], Rocket Assist Suborbital | ||
− | |[[Jump Drive|Jump-1]] possible | + | |[[Jump Drive|Jump-1]] possible, Sublight Stellar |
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|[[Gravity control technology|UH Grav Modules]] | |[[Gravity control technology|UH Grav Modules]] | ||
|[[Gravity control technology|Gravitic Maneuver]] | |[[Gravity control technology|Gravitic Maneuver]] | ||
− | <ref name=TIW>In GURPS Traveller: Interstellar Wars, this module appears in | + | <ref name=TIW>In GURPS Traveller: Interstellar Wars, this module appears in [[TL-8]].</ref>, [[Jump Drive|Jump-1]] certain |
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|align="Center" colspan="3"|Personal G-Tubes, [[Gravity control technology|HV Grav Modules]] | |align="Center" colspan="3"|Personal G-Tubes, [[Gravity control technology|HV Grav Modules]] | ||
− | |Jump-2 | + | |Jump-2, [[Maneuver|Thruster ]]Technology<ref name=TIW/> |
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− | |align="Center" colspan="3"|Personal [[Grav Belt]]s | + | |align="Center" colspan="3"|Personal [[Grav Belt]]s, [[Gravity control technology|LT Grav Modules]] |
− | |Jump-3 | + | |Jump-3 |
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− | |align="Center" colspan="4"|[[Gravity control technology|Grav Vehicles]] Merge with Orbital Spacecraft | + | |align="Center" colspan="4"|[[Gravity control technology|Grav Vehicles]] Merge with Orbital Spacecraft, Jump-4 |
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− | |align="Center" colspan="4"|Jump-5 | + | |align="Center" colspan="4"|Jump-5 |
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− | |align="Center" colspan="4"|Jump-6 | + | |align="Center" colspan="4"|Jump-6 |
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− | |align="Center" colspan="4"|Raw Material Only Short Range [[Matter Transport]] | + | |align="Center" colspan="4"|Raw Material Only Short Range [[Matter Transport]] |
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− | |align="Center" colspan="4"|Inanimate Only Short Range [[Matter Transport]] | + | |align="Center" colspan="4"|Inanimate Only Short Range [[Matter Transport]] |
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− | |align="Center" colspan="4"|Self-Aware Starships, living being portal based [[Matter Transport]] | + | |align="Center" colspan="4"|Self-Aware Starships, living being portal based [[Matter Transport]] |
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− | |align="Center" colspan="4"|Multi Parsec Range Starship-Sized [[Matter Transport]] Portals | + | |align="Center" colspan="4"|Multi Parsec Range Starship-Sized [[Matter Transport]] Portals |
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Revision as of 23:05, 7 May 2018
Tech Level Comparison Charts were developed by all of the Imperiums have recognized the importance of technology and, in relationship to this, have developed a comprehensive system of classifying technology.
Please refer to the following AAB library articles for related information:
- Technology
- Technological Research
- Technological Systemics
Description (Specifications)
Technology Comparison Tables: These Tech Level ratings are described in the three tables below. The TL's cover three different systems:
- TL or TTL: Traveller Technology Level = For Classic Traveller and most successors.
Quality of Life Technology
TTL | Energy | Computers/Robotics | Communications | Medical | Environment |
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0 | Muscles | Fingers and sticks | Runners | Mystics/Herbology | Natural (Caves, Huts) |
1 | Water | Abacus / Geometry, Trigonometry | Long Distance Signaling | Diagnosis | Settlements, Towns (Irrigation) |
2 | Wind, Clockwork | Algebra | Printing press | Internal Anatomy | Cities (Canals, Roads) |
3 | Coal / Steam | Calculus | Telegraph, Audio Recording | Surgery | Cement Structures |
4 | Electricity | Mechanical Calculators | Telephone | Vaccination, Antiseptics, Anesthetics | Cities in Rugged/Desert Terrain, Crude Terraform |
5 | Petrochemicals, Internal combustion | Electric Calculators | Radio, Radar | Mass Vaccination, X-Ray | Sealed/Conditioned Cities |
6 | Nuclear Fission | Electronic Computers (Large Model/1 bis) | Television / Advanced Audio Recording | Virus, Crude Prosthetics | Skyscrapers, Weather Predict, Underground Cities |
7 | Solar energy, early Fuel Cells | Desktop Computers, Expert systems, Model/2 | Early Satellite, Video recording | Organ Transplant, Slow Drugs | Cities in Jungle Terrain |
8 | Geothermal | Massive Parallel / Low Data, Model/2bis | Fibre optics | Artificial Organs, Metabolics | Orbital Settlements, Early Weather Control |
9 | Early Fusion, Improved Batteries | Non-Volatile / High Data, Vocal I/O, Model/3 | Video Telephone, Flat Screen | Limb Regeneration, Cryogenics, Fast Drugs | Arcologies, Orbital Cities |
10 | Fusion Plants | Early Synaptics, voice transcription, Model/4 | Holovision, Text Transcription | Antiviral Vaccines, Cancer Cure, Growth Quickining | Under-Sea/Under Ice Cities |
11 | Fusion Plants | Synaptic Learning Processors, Hand Computers, Model/5 | Personal Global Communications | Nerve Refusion, Artificial Eyes | Gravitic Structure Support |
12 | Fusion Plants, Advanced Fuel Cells | Low Autonomous Robots, Model/6 | Real-time Multilingual Translators | Broad Spectrum Anti-toxins, Enhanced Prosthetics | Major Terraforming, Advanced Weather Control |
13 | Fusion Plants, Miniature Super-Batteries | Holocrystal Storage, High Autonomous Robots, Model/7 | Holovideo Recorders | Cloning of Replacement Parts, Reanimation | Non-mobile Gravitic Cities |
14 | Fusion Plants | Computer/Brain Implants, Model/8 | Early Meson Communicators | Genetic Engineering, Memory Erasure | Mobile Gravitic Cities |
15 | Pseudo-Reality Computers, Pseudo Robots, Model/9 | Meson Communicators, Pseudo Reality Communications | Anagathics, Advanced Pseudobio Prosthetics | Complex Terraforming Possible | |
16 | Low Artificial Intelligence, Robots in all Facets | Personal Meson Communicators, Personal Holovideo | Brain Transplants, Crude Memory Transfer | Global Terraforming, Hostile Worlds | |
17 | Early Antimatter Plants | High Artificial Intelligence, Self-Aware Robots | Pocket Meson Communications | Selective Memory Erasure, Intelligent Anitbodies | Total Terraforming to 800Km worlds |
18 | Robots become Society's Basic Workforce | Permanent Memory Transfer | Total Terraforming to 4000Km worlds | ||
19 | Elemental/Limited Matter Transport | Total Terraforming | |||
20 | Global Matter Transport | Total Memory Transfer | Mobile Worlds (Sublight) | ||
21 | System-wide Matter Transport | Early Total Rejuvenation | Mobile Worlds (Jump Space) & Rosettes | ||
25 | "Capsule" Dyson Spheres | ||||
27 | Ability to create Ringworlds, access pocket universe | ||||
29 | Rigid Dyson Spheres | ||||
31 | Create Pocket Universe |
Transportation Technology
TTL | Land | Water | Air | Space |
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0 | Foot - Animals | Raft / Canoe | - | - |
1 | Wheel - Carts/Chariots | Rowed Galleys, Crude Sailing Vessels | - | - |
2 | Advanced Wheel - Moveable Axle, Replaceable Rims | Early Multi-Mast Sailing, Oceangoing sailing ships, Crude Navigation, Stagecoachs | - | - |
3 | Extensive Road - High-Speed Coach | Multi-Mast Sailing, Navigation | Manned Hot Air Balloons | - |
4 | Trains | Ironclads, Steamships | Dirigibles, Early Gliders | - |
5 | Ground Cars, Tracked Vehicles | Personal Self-Propelled Boats, Steel hulls, Early Submersibles | Airplanes, Seaplanes | Early Rockets (unmanned) |
6 | Amphibian Vehicles, ATVs, AFVs | Submersibles, Scuba, Amphibian Vehicles | Early Jet, Helicopters | Early Manned Rockets, Unmanned Rockets |
7 | Hovercraft, High-Speed Trains | Hydrofoils, Hovercraft | Supersonic Jet, Hang Gliders | Deep Space Probes (Unmanned), Maneuver-1/2 (non-gravitic) |
8 | Triphibian Vehicles | Triphibian Vehicles, Early Artificial Gills | Triphibian Vehicles, Hypersonic Jet | Space Shuttles, Space Stations, Maneuver-3-5 (non-grav) |
9 | Early Grav Vehicles, Ultra High-Speed Trains | Early Grav Vehicles, Artificial Gills | Early Grav Vehicles, Rocket Assist Suborbital | Jump-1 possible, Sublight Stellar |
10 | Grav Vehicles | UH Grav Modules | Gravitic Maneuver | |
11 | Personal G-Tubes, HV Grav Modules | Jump-2, Thruster Technology[1] | ||
12 | Personal Grav Belts, LT Grav Modules | Jump-3 | ||
13 | Grav Vehicles Merge with Orbital Spacecraft, Jump-4 | |||
14 | Jump-5 | |||
15 | Jump-6 | |||
16 | Raw Material Only Short Range Matter Transport | |||
17 | Inanimate Only Short Range Matter Transport | |||
18 | Self-Aware Starships, living being portal based Matter Transport | |||
21 | Multi Parsec Range Starship-Sized Matter Transport Portals |
Military Technology
Non-Canon Technologies
News Media and Information Dissemination Technology
History & Background (Dossier)
Technology is the distinguishing feature of advanced civilizations. It underlies what being a sophont is.
Technology Comparison Chart
The Scout Service is responsible for categorizing the technological ability of a society. They rate this ability by the assigning of Technology Levels.
References & Contributors / Sources
GURPS Traveller Notes: An array of notes regarding the similarities and differences between Traveller TL and GURPS TL can be found here: Tech Level Comparison Chart/meta
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- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science