TL-Negative

The TL-Negative or TL-Neg period represents a time before technology, when life is evolving towards sophonce, towards higher intelligence.

• TL-Neg is a pretechnological time.
• TL-Neg lifeforms are known as creatures or by more specific terms.

Description (Specifications)

Evolution is the primary “tool” for affecting change and it does not work quickly.

History & Background (Dossier)

Pre-sophontic lives are the lives of creatures or animals. However, while many sophonts are limited to thinking of animals, there are plants, fungi, and a whole variety of lifeforms included in this category.

Representative Species

All non-sophontic beings are TL-Neg creatures. This includes:

• Conventional Life
• Unconventional Life
• Exotic Life

References & Contributors (Sources)

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 Mongoose Publishing or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• Marc Miller. Worlds and Adventures (Game Designers Workshop, 1977), 14-15.Marc Miller, Robert Eaglestone, Don McKinney. Worlds and Adventures (Far Future Enterprises, 2019), 14-15.
• Marc Miller. Referee's Companion (Game Designers Workshop, 1988), 28-29.
• Geir Lanesskog. World Builder's Handbook (Mongoose Publishing, 2023), TBD.Joe Fugate, J. Andrew Keith, Gary L. Thomas. World Builder's Handbook (Digest Group Publications, 1989), TBD.
• Frank Chadwick, Dave Nilsen. Fire, Fusion, & Steel (Game Designers Workshop, 1994), 7.
• Martin Dougherty, Hunter Gordon. The Traveller's Handbook (QuikLink Interactive, 2002), 378.
• Marc Miller. T5 Core Rules (Far Future Enterprises, 2013), 502-507.
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science