Supplement Four
SOC-14 5K
WONDERFUL WORLD BUT LOW TECH
Using the Traveller system to create worlds gives us some interesting outcomes, and one of the strangest is when we roll up a world that is perfect for humans but has a low tech level. We have to figure why the world turned out this way.
I remember MWM saying that this was one of his favorite parts of the process--the creativity in figuring why a world ended up like it did.
Was there a plague? Is the world a noble retreat? Are there some pesky, difficult natives that make the otherwise paradise unsafe? Is the world settled by some tech hating religious sect that lives by the "old ways"?
I'm reading the Hammer's Slammers short story, Hangman, where two worlds, both economic powerhouses, go into partnership on a colony world, and the two mother worlds agree to keep tech level low on their colony by restricting high tech imports.
They do this in order to not create a rebellious competitor in order the two mother worlds to rape the colony world of its resources (and profit largely from that).
When I read that, I thought of Traveller. Here's a great reason to use in a game to explain a wonderful, human-standard world with a low TL.
Using the Traveller system to create worlds gives us some interesting outcomes, and one of the strangest is when we roll up a world that is perfect for humans but has a low tech level. We have to figure why the world turned out this way.
I remember MWM saying that this was one of his favorite parts of the process--the creativity in figuring why a world ended up like it did.
Was there a plague? Is the world a noble retreat? Are there some pesky, difficult natives that make the otherwise paradise unsafe? Is the world settled by some tech hating religious sect that lives by the "old ways"?
I'm reading the Hammer's Slammers short story, Hangman, where two worlds, both economic powerhouses, go into partnership on a colony world, and the two mother worlds agree to keep tech level low on their colony by restricting high tech imports.
They do this in order to not create a rebellious competitor in order the two mother worlds to rape the colony world of its resources (and profit largely from that).
When I read that, I thought of Traveller. Here's a great reason to use in a game to explain a wonderful, human-standard world with a low TL.