Tech Level Comparison Chart

The Scout Service is responsible for categorizing the technological ability of a society. They rate this ability by the assigning of Tech Levels. These Tech Level ratings are described in the three charts below.

Quality of Life Technology

Quality of life Tech Comparison

TTL	G3TL	G4TL	Energy	Computers/Robotics	Communications	Medical	Environment
0	0	0	Muscles	Fingers and sticks	Runners	Mystics/Herbology	Natural (Caves, Huts)
1	1-3	1-3	Water	Abacus / Geometry, Trigonometry	Long Distance Signaling	Diagnosis	Settlements, Towns (Irrigation)
2	4	4	Wind	Algebra	Printing press	Internal Anatomy	Cities (Canals, Roads)
3	5	5	Electricity	Calculus	Telegraph, Audio Recording	Surgery	Cement Structures
4	5	6	Coal / Steam	Mechanical Calculators	Telephone	Vaccination, Antiseptics, Anesthetics	Cities in Rugged/Desert Terrain, Crude Terraform
5	6	6	Petrochemicals, Internal combustion	Electric Calculators	Radio, Radar	Mass Vaccination, X-Ray	Sealed/Conditioned Cities
6	6	7	Nuclear Fission	Electronic Computers (Large Model/1 bis)	Television / Advanced Audio Recording	Virus, Crude :Prosthetics	Skyscrapers, Weather Predict, Underground Cities
7	7	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	8	8	Geothermal	Massive Parallel / Low Data, Model/2bis	Fibre optics	Artificial Organs, Metabolics	Orbital Settlements, Early Weather Control
9	9	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	9	10	Fusion Plants 2KL Minimum	Early Synaptics, voice transcription, Model/4	Holovision, Text Transcription	Antiviral Vaccines, Cancer Cure, Growth Quickining	Under-Sea/Under Ice Cities
11	9	10	Fusion Plants 1KL Minimum	Synaptic Learning Processors, Hand Computers, Model/5	Personal Global Communications	Nerve Refusion, Artificial Eyes	Gravitic Structure Support
12	10	11	Fusion Plants 250L Minimum, Advanced Fuel Cells	Low Autonomous Robots, Model/6	Real-time Multilingual Translators	Broad Spectrum Anti-toxins, Enhanced Prosthetics	Major Terraforming, Advanced Weather Control
13	10	11	Fusion output 3Kw per L, Miniature Super-Batteries	Holocrystal Storage, High Autonomous Robots, Model/7	Holovideo Recorders	Cloning of Replacement Parts, Reanimation	Non-mobile Gravitic Cities
14	11	12	Fusion Plants 100L Minimum	Computer/Brain Implants, Model/8	Early Meson Communicators	Genetic Engineering, Memory Erasure	Mobile Gravitic Cities
15	12	12	Fusion output 6Kw per L	Pseudo-Reality Computers, Pseduo Robots, Model/9	Meson Communicators, Pseudo Reality Communications	Anagathics, Advanced Pseudobio Prosthetics	Complex Terraforming Possible
16	13	13	Fusion output 7Kw per L, 80L Minimum	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	-	-	Antimatter 1Mw/L, 750L Fuel Pod Minimum	Robots become Society's Basic Workforce	-	Partial Memory Transfer	Total Terraforming to 4000Km worlds
19	-	-	Antimatter 2.5Mw/L, 200L Fuel Pod Minimum		-	Non-Cryogenic Suspension, Advanced Bioengineering	Total Terraforming
20	-	-	Antimatter 15Mw/L, 40L Fuel Pod Minimum		Matter Transport Eliminates Global Communication Barriers	Total Memory Transfer	Mobile Worlds (Sublight)
21	-	-	Antimatter 50Mw/L, 5L Fuel Pod Minimum		Matter Transport Eliminates Intra-System Barriers	Early Total Rejuvenation	Mobile Worlds (Jump Space), Rosettes
23	-	-	Dyson Spheres (with many Capsules)
25	-	-	Ability to create Ringworlds, access pocket universe
27	-	-	Rigid Dyson Spheres
35			Create Pocket Universe

Transportation Technology

Transportation Tech Comparison

TTL	G3TL	G4TL	Land	Water	Air	Space
0	0	0	Foot - Animals	Raft / Canoe	-	-
1	1-3	1-3	Wheel - Carts/Chariots	Rowed Galleys, Crude Sailing Vessels	-	-
2	4	4	Advanced Wheel - Moveable Axle, Replaceable Rims	Early Multi-Mast Sailing, Crude Navigation	-	-
3	5	5	Extensive Road - High-Speed Coach	Multi-Mast Sailing, Navigation	Hot Air Balloons	-
4	5	6	Trains	Ironclads, Steamships	Dirigibles, Early Gliders	-
5	6	6	Ground Cars, Tracked Vehicles	Personal Self-Propelled Boats, Steel hulls, Early Submersibles	Airplanes, Seaplanes	Early Rockets (unmanned)
6	6	7	Amphibian Vehicles, ATVsAFVs	Submersibles, Scuba, Amphibian Vehicles	Early Jet, Helicopters	Early Manned Rockets, Unmanned Rockets
7	7	7	Hovercraft, High-Speed Trains	Hydrofoils, Hovercraft	Supersonic Jet, Hang Gliders	Deep Space Probes (Unmanned), Maneuver-1/2 (non-gravitic)
8	8	8	Triphibian Vehicles	Triphibian Vehicles, Early Artificial Gills	Triphibian Vehicles, Hypersonic Jet	Space Shuttles, Space Stations, Maneuver-3-5 (non-grav)
9	9	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	9	10	Grav Vehicles		UH Grav Modules	Gravitic Maneuver , Jump-1 certain
11	9	10	Personal G-Tubes, HV Grav Modules			Jump-2, Thruster Technology
12	10	11	Personal Grav Belts, LT Grav Modules			Jump-3
13	10	11	Grav Vehicles Merge with Orbital Spacecraft, Jump-4
14	11	12	Jump-5
15	12	12	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

Military Tech Comparison

-	-	-	Personal		Heavy
TL	G3TL	G4TL	Weapons	Armour	Weapons	Armour
0	0	0	Club, Spear	Fur	-	-
1	1-3	1-3	Early Weapons (Bow, Sword)	Jack Armour	Catapult	Wood
2	4	4	Early Guns	-	Small Cannons	-
3	5	5	Rifled Weapons	-	Cannons	-
4	5	6	Cartridge	Mesh Armour	Howitzers, Gattling gun	Soft Steel
5	6	6	Explosive Grenade, Shotgun	Filter Mask	Mortars	-
6	6	7	Automatic (SMG)	-	Nuclear Weapons, Missiles	Hard Steel
7	7	7	Grenade Launchers	Cloth Armour, Flack Jacket	Beam Lasers	Composite Laminate
8	8	8	RAM Grenade Launchers, Early Laser Carbine	-	Particle Accelerators, Target Desginated Missiles	-
9	9	9	Laser Weapons	Ablative Armour	-	Light Weight Composite Laminate
10	9	10	Advanced Combat Rifle	Reflec, Combat Environment Suit	Plasma Guns, Repulsors	Crystaliron
11	9	10	-	Combat Armour	Meson Guns	-
12	10	11	PGMP-12, Gauss Rifle	-	Fusion Guns	Superdense Armour, Nuclear Dampers
13	10	11	PGMP-13, X-Ray Lasers	Battle Dress	X-Ray Lasers	-
14	11	12	FGMP-14	-	-	Bonded Superdense
15	12	12	FGMP-15	-	-	Early Black Globes
16	13	13	FGMP-16, Plasma Rifle, Neural Gun	Neural Shield	Tractor Beam	Black Globes
17	-	-	Fusion Rifle, Plama Pistol	-	Disintegrators, Antimatter Warheads	Coherent Superdense
18	-	-	Disintegrator Rifle, Fusion Pistol	Personal Damper	Long Range Disintegrator/Tractor Beam	-
19	-	-	Disintegrator Pistol	-	-	Proton Screen, Plastic Metal Armour
20	-	-	-	-	Relativity Beam	White Globes, Proton Beam
21	-	-	Relativity Rifle	Personal White Globe	Jump Projector	Jump Damper