All known technologies and research options available to you will appear below. Anything marked as 'speculative' may have a variable output (to the point of turning out to be a dead-end or simply not possible without pre-requisite research), otherwise these should be considered well-developed fields for study
Snapshot - 40 NS
(Turn 12):
- Educational Standards - Education is universally free up to eighteen but with variable quality driven by socio-local economic factors (poverty, population density, integration and so on), polity focus and regional needs. It is expensive after that. Attempts at a universal curriculum and examination standard exist but are unevenly implemented and the system is rife with inequalities based on background, gender and so on though some progress has been made in this arena from the network kiosks
- Biosciences - Extension of Exodus biosciences to take into account divergences on Comorian have extended this field, together with the deep expertise on drugs, addiction and holisitic healthcare
- Clean Tech - Centuries of hardship, salvage and a scarcity of resources have pushed Federation scientists into renewable energy and resource management
- Tech Level - You may presume a consensus Tech Level of 7-8
Opportunities: - Datavaults - Bootstrapping from recovered datavaults from the RCV Mbal Msafiri, other wrecked starships or Exodus facilities is a popular route to technology recovery and reverse engineering
- Research Treaties or Unions - ???
- Crystals - Explored in the broad brush strokes, there is plenty of potential for further crystalline compounds and applications
- Computing - Diverging from Exodus techniques the Federation networking technology is ripe for comparision with Exodus and Seihai forks
- Exodus - Redundant Hardware, Everything-As-a-Service, Data Science, Decision Support Systems, Tuftian Visualisations
- Seihai - Consensus Computing, Reactive Networks, Programmable Hardware, Agent Based Systems, Genetic Algorithms
You may at any time put forward new research topics to the Feasibility thread. If they are Approved you may spend 25 million on conducting a feasibility study to establish how expensive and what potential benefits they may provide
OOC: We're using Traveller tech levels, with a UTP of 87-98767-7678-87-7 see http://wiki.travellerrpg.com/Technology_level
This message was last edited by the GM at 20:21, Mon 22 Aug 2016.