RainOfSteel
SOC-14 1K
In my opinion.
For a military's ships of the line, world's at a polity's maximum TL are going to be selected for construction if at all possible, especially if they have high shipyard capacity.
For example, in the Imperium, this means that the majority of the budgets available for spending on military ships are going to avoid worlds between TLs 1-14.
For the TL-15 worlds with high shipyard capacity (Pop 9 or A, Industrial), the amounts of money spent through them annually will far exceed all the other worlds by a large amount. Secondary economic development due to the spending will outstrip that occurring on all TL 1-14 worlds, leaving them in what amounts to the dustbin of history. I don't like this implication, but am not immediately sure what I want to do about it (with "do about it" being some solution preventing the Imperium (or other nations) from being a skeleton built around its max-tech worlds).
Recently I have obtained the TravellerMap UWP data. For the six main nations, plus all the Vargr at once, a count of their tech TL-15 worlds at population 9 or A:
The Imperium has 133 High-Pop worlds at TL-15, and one at TL-16 at 1122 Vincennes/Vincennes/Deneb. I'm not sure I accept the TL-16 rating, as it strongly implies the Imperium will attempt to build its entire navy at Vincennes, no matter how much it has to spend on additional shipyard capacity.
The Hivers and K'Kree are at number 2 and 3 behind the Imperium in position, but the capacities are 21% and 13% of the Imperium;s. The Zhondani, Aslan, Solomani and Vargr are all in terrible distant capacities at 3%, 2%, .7%, and .7% of the Imperium's. Only one of the Vargr's nations has a High-Pop TL-15 world, and the the rest are lower Pops and/or TLs.
I would like to point out that based on this, what I see suggests that the Aslan, Solomani, Vargr, and Zhondani would all stand literally no naval chance against the Imperium, even if they all attacked at once, such as in the Rebellion timeline. If the Imperium ramped up and attacked, the rest would fall from a naval perspective.
I am also not sure what I plan on doing about this IMTU.
For a military's ships of the line, world's at a polity's maximum TL are going to be selected for construction if at all possible, especially if they have high shipyard capacity.
For example, in the Imperium, this means that the majority of the budgets available for spending on military ships are going to avoid worlds between TLs 1-14.
For the TL-15 worlds with high shipyard capacity (Pop 9 or A, Industrial), the amounts of money spent through them annually will far exceed all the other worlds by a large amount. Secondary economic development due to the spending will outstrip that occurring on all TL 1-14 worlds, leaving them in what amounts to the dustbin of history. I don't like this implication, but am not immediately sure what I want to do about it (with "do about it" being some solution preventing the Imperium (or other nations) from being a skeleton built around its max-tech worlds).
Recently I have obtained the TravellerMap UWP data. For the six main nations, plus all the Vargr at once, a count of their tech TL-15 worlds at population 9 or A:
Code:
Allegiance Count
As 3
Hv 28
Im 133
Kk 18
So 1
Va 1
Zh 4
The Imperium has 133 High-Pop worlds at TL-15, and one at TL-16 at 1122 Vincennes/Vincennes/Deneb. I'm not sure I accept the TL-16 rating, as it strongly implies the Imperium will attempt to build its entire navy at Vincennes, no matter how much it has to spend on additional shipyard capacity.
The Hivers and K'Kree are at number 2 and 3 behind the Imperium in position, but the capacities are 21% and 13% of the Imperium;s. The Zhondani, Aslan, Solomani and Vargr are all in terrible distant capacities at 3%, 2%, .7%, and .7% of the Imperium's. Only one of the Vargr's nations has a High-Pop TL-15 world, and the the rest are lower Pops and/or TLs.
I would like to point out that based on this, what I see suggests that the Aslan, Solomani, Vargr, and Zhondani would all stand literally no naval chance against the Imperium, even if they all attacked at once, such as in the Rebellion timeline. If the Imperium ramped up and attacked, the rest would fall from a naval perspective.
I am also not sure what I plan on doing about this IMTU.