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starslayer · 05-13-2013, 04:53 PM

This really comes down to 'what level of 'nothing' do they have available?'

Ironically being a higher TL then 4-5 may actually work against them, since a lot of the post TL5 stuff requires things like lathes, metal band saws, exactly processed steel, and the like. Before TL 5 everything is basically hand crafted and a capable machinist will be able to restart to that level from basically nothing but raw materials (wood->charcoal->ceramic->brass->lathe->steam engine->fully equipped shop)

If our TL8 scavenger has the ruined remains of a society that once way (broken cars, ruined rail lines, skeletal cities where man once lived), then they can scavenge for exactly fitting parts and mounts that they need. Once they can build the equivalent of a stick-welder, lathe, mill, forge, and foundry, they should be good to go to restore the as much of the non-electronic side of TL8 from memory as there skill will allow.

05-13-2013, 04:53 PM	#6
starslayer Join Date: Dec 2006	Re: What needs to be reinvented? This really comes down to 'what level of 'nothing' do they have available?' Ironically being a higher TL then 4-5 may actually work against them, since a lot of the post TL5 stuff requires things like lathes, metal band saws, exactly processed steel, and the like. Before TL 5 everything is basically hand crafted and a capable machinist will be able to restart to that level from basically nothing but raw materials (wood->charcoal->ceramic->brass->lathe->steam engine->fully equipped shop) If our TL8 scavenger has the ruined remains of a society that once way (broken cars, ruined rail lines, skeletal cities where man once lived), then they can scavenge for exactly fitting parts and mounts that they need. Once they can build the equivalent of a stick-welder, lathe, mill, forge, and foundry, they should be good to go to restore the as much of the non-electronic side of TL8 from memory as there skill will allow.