Technology levels

Technology levels present a "rough" idea of how advance a civilisation is.

About
The majority of ships in the Terran Colony Fleet are level 9, though some have an unhealthy mix of 8 and 9 and recently level 10 became accessiable to some of the fleets ships.

Levels

 * 1) People have access to basic tools for hunting. They may or maynot make buildings of some kid but if they are they are made from locally souirced materials. The people at this level often live in small villages. They do not farm for crops and savage the land for food, if they do keep animals it tends to be only a few for food or basic labour. Baisc military consists of whatever sharp or pointy object sthey have to defend themselves with. They can make a simple one-man boat made of reeds or sticks, but cannot make make a cart or anything else.
 * 2) People at this tech level make advance tools using materials such as metals, they can trade for items they lack with other villages nearby. They have farming of either crop or animals, perhaps both. Animals form part of their every day farming life and are used where man power is low. They can form a basic militia with tools they can repurpose into weapons. Science is still foreign to them but they have a basic understanding of facts they can make use of. They can make boats and carts.
 * 3) People at this level have large organised empires or at least kigndoms, castles and other advancements are made from large materials such as bricks and mortar. They have a working hypothosis of science, but lack many understandings and science is focused on only what needs to be known for helping the people.  Locations become more specialised, farms dedicate themselves to specific crops and animals, resources are storaged and traded where needed. Even in terms of military advancements they have a organised armies equpited with armour, specialised weapons. They have the means to conquer large areas and even defend and hol onto them. They can conquer anyone ho is below them, but may struggle from time to time depending on how things go.
 * 4) They explore the world around them, have advance knowledge of the world and can conquer anyone less advance then them. Their scientific feats have become basic theories, though they don't have have grasps of the scientific theory they are now exploring other areas beyond even only that which helps them in their very day to day life.  In terms of resource gather they control large areas of not just farmlan but quarries, they get exotict materials they don't have in their every day lives from afar or are capable of it.
 * 5) They have large machines which have replaced basic labours. They no longer rely on manpower or animal power.  The Scientific method has begun, but they now just have a basic lack of exploration and understanding of science, but they now explore everything that they can see and every idea they can come up with. Large cities and industry have sprung up. They have basics understanding of flight and are exploring this.
 * 6) They have use of vechicles and advance machines, computers, means to fly more effienctly and have the basics first steps of space exploration. They have the ability to use science to eexplore everything and anything and can use maths to calculate advance sums to build incredible machines.
 * 7) They have the means to fly to other planets, though it is primative they can leave their homeworld and explore new worlds. The beginings of mass space exploration.   They cannot leave the solar system but everything within it is at their reach.
 * 8) They can leave the solar system, though are still limited in how far they can travel, being reduced to only travelling to the next solar system.
 * 9) They have warp drives that allow them to travel within anywhere within the star system. They have access to everything within their galaxy.
 * 10) They can travel to other nearby gallaxies, opening the universe to them.

Anything beyond this scale is currently considered "unmeasurable".