Bruce Pihlamae writes:
> On the subject of tech level advances:
>
> A tech level advance is usually a fundamental breakthrough or addition
> of knowledge to the society. Other advances are simply refinements or
> incremental improvements on existing technology.
This is true only on the cutting edge of technology, which for most worlds
in the former Imperium (and all worlds in the Regency) is 16. Even if you
assume that the newest discoveries are kept secret that still means that
anything up to TL 15 is a question of economics: Can you afford to build
and maintain the industry for a given TL. And that is mostly a matter for
the "historian" to decide, at least in a campaign background like the
Imperium where the economic information we have is very scant. So if you
want a world to advance from TL 5 to 15 in 70 years, make it so. If you
want to drop them from 15 to 5, make it so. Use what GDW tells you or make
up what you think is reasonable.
> A Breakthrough occurs roughly every generation, so in 70 years we are
> just about to the end of our third generation (25x3 years)
I'm totally at a loss here. Where do you get that figrure from?
Hans Rancke
University of Copenhagen
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