QREBS

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QREBS is a technological acronym describing the values of Quality, Reliability, Ease of Use, Burden, and Safety for any manufactured object found within Charted Space. [1]

  • Objects vary widely in quality and usefulness. This variation gives seemingly identical objects a variety of positive and negative attributes. The QREBS system details these differences.[2]

Library Data Referral Tree

Please refer to the following AAB Library Data for more information:

Description (Specifications)

QREBS is used for describing two things: first, the characteristics of a device, similar to the characteristics of a player character; second, the production characteristics of a factory producing those devices.

In the latter case, factories have QREBS settings, and therefore, the devices they produce will have those characteristics.

Manufacturing Quality Basic Parameters

QREBS stands for:


History & Background (Dossier)

Tech Level Stages: A Tech Level shows devices that an industry with available tools can manufacture, maintain, and use. Tech Levels are an inexact approximation: they shade into earlier and later TLs. Such gradations are expressed as Stages. [3]

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 Far Future Enterprises or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.
  1. Information provided to the library by Robert-Eaglestone
  2. Marc Miller. T5 Core Rules (Far Future Enterprises, 2013), TBD.
  3. Marc Miller. T5 Core Rules (Far Future Enterprises, 2013), TBD.