Handmade high-tech

I''m currently detailing a tech 4 civilization where I've decided that the
limiting factor is not economics or knowledge, but a near-religious
philosophical abhorrence of factories and mass-produced items. These people
wouldn't object to televisions, grav cars or space ships  -  provided they
were handmade!

Consequently I've decided that 90% of all consumer goods are tech 3, 9% is
tech 4, 9/10th of one percent is tech 5, and 1/10th of one percent is tech
6. Question: Does this sound like a reasonable distribution?

It seems to me that some tech 6 (and by no means all of it) is the highest
that would be economically feasible. A master gunsmith might make a living
making a few submachineguns per year. Noone is going to make a career out
of manufacturing one jet-plane per decade.

However, there exist a large leasured class (a landed gentry) that often
make high-tech items as a hobby. These squires might devote a decade to
making one single impressive item.

So my main question is this: Given that you have a large income, can buy
most tech 4-5 items ready-made, can hire assistants for scut-work, has
tech 15 knowledge available, and are willing to devote a couple of hours a
day for a decade to the project, what kind of interesting high-tech items
might you be able to produce? What would be beyond you? Same question for
familiy projects, ie. several family members working on one project over
several generations (this culture is over 2000 years old and very stable).
Would you be able to build a spaceship? Or even a starship?



      Hans Rancke
University of Copenhagen
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