Collapsing the TL scale

[mike wightman]

<Moved across from another thread>
Is there enough variety in the weapon development across the TLs?
Sometimes I think the Traveller TL chart is more like a refinement of existing tech rather tham brand new breakthroughs.
Here is what I see when I look at High Guard/TL table in Grand Census/MT Referee's Companion:

TL9 gravitics, jump technology
TL10 repulsors, plasma guns,
TL11 meson weapons
TL12 meson screens, nuclear dampers, fusion guns
TL13-14???
TL15 black globe
TL16 tractors, disintigrators
TL17 antimatter power plants and missiles

What I'm considering is collapsing the TL chart, but allowing different stages of development for a system within a TL - all IMTU of course.

Any thoughts?

 

[Anthony]

TL 13: X-ray lasers.
TL 14: bonded superdense.

I still tend to agree that the TLs could be flattened.

 

[mike wightman]

Here's what I'm considering:

TL9 gravitics, jump technology, 4% power plants
TL10 repulsors, plasma guns,
TL11 meson weapons, 3% power plants
TL12 meson screens, nuclear dampers, fusion guns
TL13 black globe, 2% power plants
TL14 tractors, disintigrators, 1% power plants,
TL15 antimatter power plants and missiles

Armour remains at the TL given in High Guard.

All IMTU.

 

[JAFARR]

Originally posted by Sigg Oddra:
Here's what I'm considering:

TL9 gravitics, jump technology, 4% power plants
TL10 repulsors, plasma guns,
TL11 meson weapons, 3% power plants
TL12 meson screens, nuclear dampers, fusion guns
TL13 black globe, 2% power plants
TL14 tractors, disintigrators, 1% power plants,
TL15 antimatter power plants and missiles

Armour remains at the TL given in High Guard.

All IMTU.

Do you mean at TL 9 a Pn1 takes 4% of your tonnage, a Pn2 takes 8%, etc?

 

[mike wightman]

Yep, it was the easiest way to write it for the table