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Originally Posted by Icelander
The worldand the rest of the world is rapidly approaching TL10 from reverse engineering the alien or future technology.
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At any moment there is a limited number of human engineers working at skill 26 (18 (skill)+4(assistants)+4(versatile 4)). By selling just some TL10 technology they would be rolling at -27 (-22(amazing)+5(working model)-10(TL+2)). If they were to take 30 times the basic time, that would be rolling against 4, which means 1.85% probability for success, or about 1418 years to reverse anything. And this presupposes that the androids, being artificial intelligences, consented instead of resorting to self-destruction.