Technological Advancement in a Post-Magic Banestorm Campaign

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Originally Posted by desorto

How long do you think going from tech level 3 (4) to a steampunkish late TL5 (6) would take? It seems like the existence of underground engineers and refugees with some higher tech knowledge who escaped mindwipes should speed the process up somewhat since the problem wouldn't be waiting around for a conceptual breakthrough so much as a matter of infrastructure, political maneuvering, and locating those with the desired knowledge.

While I can't give you hard and fast numbers assume that even with outside help you are looking at not less than several generations perhapse even a century or more. The infrastructure needed to impliment any TL increase will take time to build up particularly in societies that have both an ingrained predudice against advanced technology and have recently experienced a major social and economic disaster.