Final State

Final States are hypothetical societies with technology between TL:28-30 and TL:31-33 whose technological capabilities allow them to form states like no others previous possible.

• It is a kind of society capable of forming a stable government or polity.

Description (Specifications)

Final States (Ascendants & Transcendents): Far into the future Imperial scientists have hypothesized that sophont species will reach technological mastery rivaling the Ancients.

• As greater and greater mastery of the universe is achieved, the ascendant and transcendent societies will strive to reach the Singularity, a level of omnipotent mastery of the universe that transcend technology itself.

Key Identifier Characteristics

There are many theories of what such a state might look like including:

• Group Minds
• Incorporeal Existence
• Life in an Alternate or Pocket Universe
• Matter-Intelligence Melding
• Psionic Technology allowing for a Blending of Group and Individual
• Servants of a vast Artificial Intelligence

History & Background (Dossier)

Transcendents and Ascendants change the nature of society and civilization. While some go pastoral and others go extinct, most push to achieve the final singularity, a status beyond technology and conventional paradigm. Their states make little to no sense to earlier forms of organized existence.

Standard Polity Growth Sequence

MACRO LEVEL:

• Proto-Society → Society → Civilization → Singularity (Post-civilizational)

MICRO LEVEL:

• Proto-Society → Band Society → Tribal Society or Chiefdom → City-State → Nation-State → World-State → Pocket Empire → Interstellar State → Intergalactic State → Final State → Singularity

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.

• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science