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Originally Posted by Jareth Valar
Going over Ultra-tech, I get the differences and all between the levels and types as well as the introduction of Superscience.
My question is, if a higher TL piece of gear were to fall into the hands of a lower one (1-2 TL lower). how long do you think it would take to successfully reverse-engineer the device successfully and then possibly regularly replicate it?
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If it was two tech levels higher...it just ain't gonna happen without the intervention of the Gadgeteer advantage. Figuring out how make essential components of such a device would be quite beyond their power. If the margin is just one tech level...well the boundary between one tech level and the next is a fuzzy one. It depends on whether you are talking about a mature TL 9 or one less completely advanced. And it gets trickier if you are a conservative TL 9 examining a super-science artifact which may be based on totally undiscovered physics.