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| 26 Nov 2011 08:48 PM |
As time grew and species developed technology, The Forerunner seperated their technology into catagorys. All life and civilizations in the Universe fall into one of the categories. The lower the Tier number, the more advanced the civilization's technology is/was: --------------------------------- Tier 7: Pre-industrial
Tier 7 is one of the most common and stable states, with limited weaponry and environmental threats. Societies tend to be small and scattered, driven by subsistence farming, foraging, or hunter-gathering needs. Technology is limited to simple hand made tools, weapons, or agrarian implements and methods, but a very broad understanding of planetary and solar mechanics is not uncommon.
--------------------------------- Tier 6: Industrial Age Tier 6 is often the pinnacle for a civilization. Agrarian societies can remain stable in the pre-industrial stage, but Tier 6 population strain and mechanized food production invariably create political and economic pressures very few can balance. Moving past this usually promises advancement. Some societies improve environmental and medical understanding concurrently with mechanical and transport advancement. Those that do not are frequently doomed. --------------------------------- Tier 5: Atomic Age Tier 5 species usually begin focusing on clean energy production. The occasional belligerent species will use atomic energy for weapons, often resulting in mass extinctions. In-atmosphere craft are a hallmark, often leading to manned space flight, albeit in a short-scale. --------------------------------- Tier 4: Space Age Tier 4 is often the final resting place for species intelligent enough to break free from their cradle's surface only to fill the gulf surrounding it with war. Their comfort-focused technology can include medical advances. --------------------------------- Tier 3: Space Faring Species has efficient Slipspace navigation, mass drivers, asynchronous linear-induction weapons, holocrystal storage and semi-sentient AI --------------------------------- Tier 2: Intersteller The species has the ability to perform exceedingly accurate Slipspace navigation, near-instantaneous communication and man-portable application of energy manipulation --------------------------------- Tier 1: World Builders The species has the ability to manipulate gravitational forces, create AI with full sentience, fabricate super-dense materials, perform super-accurate Slipspace navigation, the ability to create life, and the ability to create worlds -------------------------------- Tier 0: Transsentient As the Forerunners had no examples of civilizations with technological accomplishments as big as this, this is a theoretical ceiling. It is suspected that they can travel across galaxies and accelerate the evolution of intelligent life. These may be creatures of legend. ----------------------------------------------------------- Note: most of this was not written by me. This is for all clans that want a technology rating, now you have it. Enjoy ranking yourself, and no, nobody will ever be able to reach tier 0, but tier 1 is possible!
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