Naval Procurement Doctrine for Stellar Polities

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by Curmudgeon

The Terran Union is the new kid on the block. They are the most technologically backward of the lot, being TL 8, maybe TL 9.

It's a little difficult to think in 3e TLs these days but if you're using default Ve2 numbers I don't think you can make an at all viable starship at TL8. Even handwaving the stardrive as Emergent Superscience you're left needing Reactionless Thrusters.

Then there's Force Screens. You generally need those too. Any stellar nation Space Opera called their TL7 (hence forth SOTL) would default to TL11 in Ve2. There weren't any stellar nations below SOTL 7.