Navy bases

Steve Higginbotham writes:
>Hans:
>>                  There is a very good chance (5/6) that worlds
>>with an A or B starport will have a Space Technology Level that
>>is at least 1 higher than the High Common TL (which is the one
>>shown on the listings). That gives us three more worlds in the
>>marches that can help out. Furthermore, worlds with A or B
>>starports have a better chance of being xenophilic, and
>>xenophilic worlds has a good chance of having a STL _two_
>>higher than their HCTL, so some of the TL 13 worlds may be able
>>to help out too. Perhaps the three with naval bases (Efate,
>>Lunion and Strouden)?
>
>You overlook that there is a random role in there.  Spaceship TL can be
>up to SIX levels lower than the "average".

Overlook? That's why I wrote that there was a 5/6th chance. And
the lowest Space TL for a tech 13 world is 12. The lowest for a
tech 15 world is 15.

>However, when we generated
>Efate for our campaign, it built TL15 starships,

Well within the World Builders rules too. What is not within
the rules is *Regina* building TL 15 ships, yet according to
_Kinunir_ they do!  ;-)


      Hans Rancke
University of Copenhagen
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