Manufacturing Technology of Charted Space/meta
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Notes (2019)[edit]
| Traveller TL | GURPS 3e TL | GURPS 4e TL | Historical Era | Primary manufacturing technologies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Stone Age (fire) | Found Tools |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Bronze Age (3500 BC) | Cottage industries |
| 1 | 2 | 2 | Iron Age (1200 BC) | Limited mass production techniques |
| 1 | 3 | 3 | Medieval Age (600 AD) | Guilds and professional workforce |
| 2 | 4 | 4 | Age of Sail (1450 AD) | Interchangeable parts, design drawings to scale and dimension |
| 3 | 5 | 5 | Industrial Revolution (1730 AD) | Water power, factories |
| 4 | 5 | 6 | Mechanized Age (1880 AD) | Steam power, basic electrical power |
| 5 | 6 | 6 | Circa 1910 AD | Complex labor organization, operations research, basic quality control, vertical integration |
| 6 | 6 | 7 | Nuclear Age (1940 AD) | Indexable tooling, standardized quality control and testing |
| 7 | 7 | 7 | Circa 1970 AD | NC analog machine control |
| 8 | 7 | 8 | Digital Age (1990 AD) | Digital machine controls, CAD drawing, basic manufacturing robots. |
| 9 | 8 | 9 | Early Stellar (2050 AD) | 3D additive layer printing, integrated information systems |
| 10 (A) | 9 | 10 | Early Stellar (2120 AD) | Networked manufacturing, autonomous design by computer |
| 11 (B) | 9 | 10 | Average Stellar | Zero G manufacturing / anti-grav manufacturing, basic terraforming |
| 12 (C) | 10 | 11 | Average Imperial | Artificial densification of materials on mass scale |
| 13 (D) | 10 | 11 | Average Stellar | Matter compiler: Molecules to products |
| 14 (E) | 11 | 12 | High Stellar | Organic computers allow guided self-invention |
| 15 (F) | 12 | 12 | Imperial Maximum | First "Santa Claus" machines appear. Planetary terraforming |
| 16 (G) | 13 | 13 | Darrian Historical Maximum | Beyond sustainable technological standards of Charted Space |
Notes (2017)[edit]
Conversion Table[edit]
The TL system differs between different versions of the Traveller game. The following table shows conversion between different TL systems of the various Traveller editions.
Most Traveller game editions default to the original Classic Traveller Traveller TL technology levels.
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| Traveller TL | GURPS 3e TL | GURPS 4e TL | Historical Era | Primary manufacturing technologies |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Stone Age (fire) | Tool making |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Bronze Age (3500 BC) | Cottage industries |
| 1 | 2 | 2 | Iron Age (1200 BC) | Limited mass production techniques |
| 1 | 3 | 3 | Medieval Age (600 AD) | Guilds and professional workforce |
| 2 | 4 | 4 | Age of Sail (1450 AD) | Interchangeable parts, design drawings to scale and dimension |
| 3 | 5 | 5 | Industrial Revolution (1730 AD) | Water power, factories |
| 4 | 5 | 6 | Mechanized Age (1880 AD) | Steam power |
| 5 | 6 | 6 | Circa 1910 AD | Complex labor organization, operations research, basic quality control, vertical integration |
| 6 | 6 | 7 | Nuclear Age (1940 AD) | Indexable tooling, standardized quality control and testing |
| 7 | 7 | 7 | Circa 1970 AD | NC analog machine control |
| 8 | 7 | 8 | Digital Age (1990 AD) | Digital machine controls, CAD drawing, basic manufacturing robots. |
| 9 | 8 | 9 | Early Stellar (2050 AD) | 3D additive layer printing, integrated information systems |
| 10 (A) | 9 | 10 | Early Stellar (2120 AD) | Networked manufacturing, autonomous design by computer |
| 11 (B) | 9 | 10 | Average Stellar | Zero G manufacturing / anti-grav manufacturing, basic terraforming |
| 12 (C) | 10 | 11 | Average Imperial | Artificial densification of materials on mass scale |
| 13 (D) | 10 | 11 | Average Stellar | Matter compiler: Molecules to products |
| 14 (E) | 11 | 12 | High Stellar | Organic computers allow guided self-invention |
| 15 (F) | 12 | 12 | Imperial Maximum | First "Santa Claus" machines appear. Planetary terraforming |
| 16 (G) | 13 | 13 | Darrian Historical Maximum |