The following chart shows generally accepted (within the Imperium, at least) benchmarks which indicate that a culture has reached a specific level of technological development in a specific field.
Above TL-15 the benchmarks are largely hypothetical.
--------- Weaponry --------- ------------ Transport ------------ Energy
TL Personal Armour Heavy Computers Comms Water Land Air Space Sources
0 Club Runner Canoe Mount Muscle
Cudgel Raft Cart
Spear
1 Dagger Jack Catapult Abacus Heliograph Galley Wagon
Pike
Sword
2 Halberd Cannon Wind
Matchlock
Broadsword
3 Foil Sailing Hot air Water
Cutlass ship balloon wheel
Flintlock
Blade
Bayonet
4 Revolver Artillery Adding Telephone Steamship Train Dirigible Coal
Shotgun machine
5 Carbine Steel Mortar Model/1 Radio Ground Fixed wing Oil
Rifle plate Sandcaster car aircraft
Pistol
SMG
6 Autorifle Cloth Missile Model/1 Television Submers- ATV Rotor wing Fission
LMG Missile (bis) ible AFV aircraft
launcher
7 Body Mesh Grenade Model/2 ---- Hovercraft ---- Non-star- Solar
pistol Flak launcher Hand calculator ship
jacket Pulse laser
8 Laser Vacc suit Auto- Model/2(bis) Air/raft Fusion
carbine cannon Artillery
Snub pistol Particle computer
Accelerator
9 Laser Ablat Beam laser Model/3 Jump 1
rifle Battle computer Maneuver drive
10 Reflec Plasma gun Model/4 ------- Grav vehicle ------
Repulsor Grav tank
11 Combat armour Model/5 Jump 2
Hand computer
12 PGMP-12 Fusion gun Model/6 Grav Jump 3
belt
13 PGMP-13 Battle dress Model/7 Jump 4
14 FGMP-14 Jump 5
15 FGMP-15 Jump 6
16 Disintegrators ----- Matter transport -----
17 True AI Antimatter
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This message was last updated by the GM at 09:10, Fri 23 Sept 2005.