Technology level

Tech Level is a measure of technogolical capacity. Usually this is used in a UWP (Universal world profile) to indicate the overall technology of the planet. (A planet may have large sections, and/or populations at a more primitive level than listed).

Technology does not imply standard of living as workers in a high tech industrial world can have a poorer quality of life (perhaps not having the money to pay for high-tech health care), than a medieval farmer. The tech level does impact the exchange rate for the planet, and has a large effect on its economy and interstellar trade.

Enhanced tech levels describe the technology for different classes of technology (e.g. a planet may have a medical tech level different from its weapons tech level). The enhanced tech level is usually broken into the following sections:

• Power
• Medical
• Weapons

(This is incomplete)

Tech levels are measured in the range 0-15 (0-F), with 0 representing extreme primative levels (hunter/gatherers), and 15 the height of Imperial technology, however there is technology beyond that of the imperium as evidenced by ancient sites.