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Old 04-26-2019, 11:39 AM   #1010
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Default Re: New Sci Fi Setting Seeds

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The People and the Otherkin
There are remnants of the TL12^ technology the colonists came with on the island were the ship crashed. And in a few universities they have equipment and labs that can produced up to TL7 devices, in a few areas TL8. They have records of the later tech that was available on Earth or other advanced worlds when they crashed. They lack the means to build the tech.

As the population gets bigger and the economy developed further the functional Tech Level will rise.

There are large hospitals associated with the universities. These are supported by taxes on the population. Doctors and Nurses are civil servants and paid for through taxes. A Doctor or Nurse has at least a status of three.

All towns that can support schools are required to do so. All children must attend at least six years of school. Literacy is thus the norm in this society.

The Universities are autonomous institutions that are also paid for through taxes.

Governments vary from democracies to oligarchies. Some of each are bad. Some democracies are good. Some oligarchies are generally tolerable.

This is an extremely maritime world. Even most mountain folk have sailed the sea. PCs should be encouraged to take seamanship and similar maritime skills. Thanks to the Gnomes chronometers, navigation functions at TL6. Still the ships are mainly TL3 and a very few TL4 ships. Long oceanic voyages are still dangerous.
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