CT Only: Traveller Tech Levels

[atpollard]

Or you go pop control Moties.

Right, POP control is an option.

However under my paradigm, a plateau in POP will also plateau the TL because it will not support the diversity of infrastructure needed at the next TL. Five Thousand People living in paradise with a TL 15 Library Database will never build a Starship from their TL 3 fixed-population community no matter how many generations they work to increase the TL. The Population will never support an Industrial revolution, let alone the infrastructure to manufacture Computers and even an Atlas 1 Rocket.

That was the premise of my [IMTU] link between TL and POP.

 

[kilemall]

Right, POP control is an option.

However under my paradigm, a plateau in POP will also plateau the TL because it will not support the diversity of infrastructure needed at the next TL. Five Thousand People living in paradise with a TL 15 Library Database will never build a Starship from their TL 3 fixed-population community no matter how many generations they work to increase the TL. The Population will never support an Industrial revolution, let alone the infrastructure to manufacture Computers and even an Atlas 1 Rocket.

That was the premise of my [IMTU] link between TL and POP.

Hmm depends- if the product is innovation maybe they can.

RPG Writeups — Freemarket

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[atpollard]

Hmm depends- if the product is innovation maybe they can.

RPG Writeups — Freemarket

writeups.letsyouandhimfight.com

Four couples (mating pairs, 8 people total) agree to a TL 18 "reality TV" experiment. They are dropped on an uninhabited world with two "TL 18 Universal Makers". How many generations can they build and sustain an 8 person "Freemarket" independent of all outside contact? Can they maintain all of the needed Technology FOREVER? Do they have a sufficient SKILLSET to support the entire TL 18 culture? The 5x10^18 viewers of the REAL 'Freemarket' want to find out!

 

[kilemall]

Four couples (mating pairs, 8 people total) agree to a TL 18 "reality TV" experiment. They are dropped on an uninhabited world with two "TL 18 Universal Makers". How many generations can they build and sustain an 8 person "Freemarket" independent of all outside contact? Can they maintain all of the needed Technology FOREVER? Do they have a sufficient SKILLSET to support the entire TL 18 culture? The 5x10^18 viewers of the REAL 'Freemarket' want to find out!

Many likely wouldn’t. Some would.

 

[casquilho]

Four couples (mating pairs, 8 people total) agree to a TL 18 "reality TV" experiment. They are dropped on an uninhabited world with two "TL 18 Universal Makers". How many generations can they build and sustain an 8 person "Freemarket" independent of all outside contact? Can they maintain all of the needed Technology FOREVER? Do they have a sufficient SKILLSET to support the entire TL 18 culture? The 5x10^18 viewers of the REAL 'Freemarket' want to find out!

Maybe a dumb question, but would 8 people be enough to avoid DNA in breeding issues going forward?

 

[atpollard]

Maybe a dumb question, but would 8 people be enough to avoid DNA in breeding issues going forward?

Ordinarily, no. By TL 18 they might have flawless genetics and easily correct future mutations.

 

[casquilho]

Ordinarily, no. By TL 18 they might have flawless genetics and easily correct future mutations.

Oh I misread your post, I thought the TL 18 was just the " two TL 18 Universal Makers" not people who had been TL18 and thus gained unknown advantages. Hum interesting ideas this brings.