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# EXTERNAL LINK: [http://www.republicofnewhome.org/oldlair/games/traveller/worlds/explore.html SOPHONT LIST Dragoness Eclectic] | # EXTERNAL LINK: [http://www.republicofnewhome.org/oldlair/games/traveller/worlds/explore.html SOPHONT LIST Dragoness Eclectic] | ||
− | : - [[User:Maksim-Smelchak|Maksim-Smelchak]] ([[User talk:Maksim-Smelchak|talk]]) 19:53, 7 July 2018 (EDT) | + | : - [[User:Maksim-Smelchak|Maksim-Smelchak]] ([[User talk:Maksim-Smelchak|talk]]) 19:53, 7 July 2018 (EDT) |
== Links (2017) == | == Links (2017) == |
Revision as of 19:54, 7 July 2018
Links (2018)
- EXTERNAL LINK: SOPHONT LIST Dragoness Eclectic
- - Maksim-Smelchak (talk) 19:53, 7 July 2018 (EDT)
Links (2017)
- External Link: Quick, How Might the Alien Spacecraft Work?
- - Maksim-Smelchak (talk) 20:07, 16 November 2017 (EST)
Notes (2016)
MWM makes a clear distinction among the following terms (at least in T5):
- A Sentient (= "Sensing") is a life form that is self aware (e.g. an animal).
- A Sapient (= "wise cognizance") is an intelligent life form.
- A Sophont (= sophonce or higher intelligence) is an intelligent life form that has an interstellar presence.
In other words, all Sapients/Sophonts are also Sentient by definition. But while all Sophonts are also Sapients, not all Sapients are Sophonts.
So a TL-0 or TL-1 society of NILs on a world would be considered a Sapient species, but not Sophonts. If that same species eventually developed Jump Drive or a small STL/NAFAL ship polity (or had become members of a starfaring society and had spread out among the stars by that agency), then they would be considered Sophonts.
- --WHULorigan (talk) 11:54, 9 July 2016 (EDT)
Life Development Stages
STAGES: Non-Life → Proto-Life → Creature → Proto-Sophont → Sophont → Ascendant → Transcendent → Singularity
- Non-Life (A-life)
- Proto-Life (transitory stage) TL-Neg
- Creature TL-Neg (pre-technological lifeforms)
- Proto-Sophont (transitory stage) TL-0
- Sophont TL 1-27
- Ascendant (transitory stage) TL 28-30
- Transcendent TL-31-33 (post-technological beings)
- Singularity