Found Tools Period

The TL-Neg or TL-negative period represents a time before applied technology.

• 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. At the Tl-0, culture and extilligence have begun to come into play, massively accelerating the process of progressive developments.

History & Background / Dossier

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Representative Proto-Sophont Species

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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), .Joe Fugate, J. Andrew Keith, Gary L. Thomas. World Builder's Handbook (Digest Group Publications, 1989), .
• Frank Chadwick, Dave Nilsen. Fire, Fusion, & Steel (Game Designers Workshop, 1994), 7.
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• 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