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Ages of Technology
- Stone: Tools are made with stone, and technology basically does not exist. Humans are barely out of caves even.
- Metal: Tools are now typically made with various metals including bronze and iron. Humans are typically considered to be in civilizations, technological advances such as wheels form
- Classical: The arts begin to flourish, and there are many in the world who can read and write (1%). Larger civilizations develop and transit becomes easier with the development of roads.
- Steel: Literacy rates are about the same (1%) as technology begins to focus more upon war applications. Gun powder starts to begin to exist, but typically is not used in military applications. Serfdom is popular and typically brutal, and large defensive structures are built.
- Renaissance: Knowledge begins to increase in the common people along with everyone else. Great advances in transportation such as fast boats begin to surface, and gunpowder is used in military applications in such things as pistols and muskets. Arts fourish during this age typically, and literacy begins to expand to common people (5%).
- Industrial: Mass production enters the arena as technological advances grow quickly in number. Power in the form of electricity and steam show up nearly everywhere, and literacy is fairly common (60%). War is typically fought at a range using a variety of gunpowder-based weapons such as rifles and early machine guns. Although land transit is still typically with horses, sea transit is much faster now.
- Mechanized: Land transit is typically performed with automobiles or similar inventions, and Air Flight begins to take hold. War is exclusively fought using technological weapons such as machine guns, land mines, mustard gas, and planes. Mass destruction from bombs is possible, and at the same time medical advances tend to soften the blow a tad of the ever increasing destructiveness of war.
- Computer: Typically heralded by either the first use of computers or the first nuclear destruction, this era is typically either a blessing or a curse for the average member of society, who is typically (90%) literate and intelligent. Inventions are everywhere and people begin to look towards further and loftier goals. Technological achievements are eclipsed within a year typically. People from other, more magical and less technological societies, begin to mistake the technology as magic.
- Space: The first orbital space flights takes place, and the first orbitting space station (either on a moon or just in orbit) is being planned or is already built. Advances in computers are even more rapid, yet so are typically advances in Nuclear weaponry - the life on the surface of the world could be destroyed by the nuclear weapons a single large nation can hold. Literacy and Computer Literacy rates are very high for the average person, and the average person can make minor inventions somewhat easily. Sources of electricity become scarce. Technology is commonly mistaken as magic to outsiders.
- Cybernetic: Individuals themselves tend to be augmented with technology as technology begins to become smaller and smaller. The average person can operate incredibly complex inventions with ease, and Fusion technology begins to surface. Electricity, at one time a difficult thing to obtain, is now easily obtained. Transportation goes at speeds very close to the speed of light, so planetary transportation is easy. Technology is indistinguishable from magic to outsiders.
- Colonization: The first mass colonization of another solar system occurs as people begin to explore other galaxies. The speed of light is shattered at this point and mass transit ceases to be too big of a problem. Space ships are common place and most people wonder how they ever got around without one. Technology begins to become a burden, however, as it is possible for large warships to destroy entire planets with a single weapon. Outsiders are awed at the technology level of these nations. It is possible to create a planet using technology alone.
- Nanotech: Miniaturization of technology ceases as machines are made at the atomic level. So called 'grey goo', these nanorobots are the backbone of all society as entire planets can easily be created using this technology alone. Technology is so high that outsiders would merely believe wielders of this tech to be gods. Everyone can be an inventor at this point in time, but with these inventions come great costs. Experiments gone wrong with black holes can annihilate entire galaxies, as societies of this technological level become very unstable. The so called 'grey goo disaster' becomes more and more inevitable as time goes on.
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