Trav terraforming references

[HG_B]

Is there any write up on detailed terraforming capabilities by TL in a Trav book/supp/mag article?

 

[agorski]

Doing a quick article search over at RPGGeek listed a few articles that might be useful, but I haven't looked at them to be sure:

Terraforming, Third Imperium (Issue 1 - Spring 1986)
Terraforming, Different Worlds (Issue 22 - Jul 1982)
Terraforming Part II, Different Worlds (Issue 23 - Aug 1982)

 

[HG_B]

Doing a quick article search over at RPGGeek listed a few articles that might be useful, but I haven't looked at them to be sure:

Terraforming, Third Imperium (Issue 1 - Spring 1986)
Terraforming, Different Worlds (Issue 22 - Jul 1982)
Terraforming Part II, Different Worlds (Issue 23 - Aug 1982)

Thanks. I'll have to hunt through my boxes in the attic to see which of these I still have.

 

[Garnfellow]

The MegaTraveller Referee's Companion (pp 31-32) has the following:

Tech Level 5 (circa 1930): Sealed and conditioned cities become possible. While at tech level 4 sealed and conditioned dwellings are possible, this technology has expanded to include an entire city as a unit. Multistory structures over 100 meters in height appear (skyscrapers).

Tech Level 6 (circa 1950): Building an entire city in a jungle becomes feasible. Skyscrapers become commonplace.

Tech Level 7 (circa1970): Civil engineering advances enough to make entire underground cities possible.

Tech Level 8 (circa 1990): Orbital settlements (an orbital station (not closed-cycle)) with a permanent population of up to 100 become possible. An early form of wide-scale weather control is introduced. Semireliable seismic quake prediction appears.

Tech Level 9 (circa 2010): Orbital cities (a closed-cycle orbital station) with a permanent population of 1000 or more are introduced. Large, totally self-contained cities (arcologies) become possible.

Tech Level 10 (circa 2100): Undersea and under-ice cities become practical. Early seismic quake control appears.

Tech Level 11: Structures whose design relies upon a gravitic supplement appear. These structures would collapse without the permanent aid of their gravitic support.

Tech Level 12: Major terraforming projects covering thousands of square kilometers become commonplace. Significant advances in global weather control help make such terraforming projects possible. Massive gravitic structures that can freely move about appear.

Tech Level 13: Entire cities supported by gravities appear (populations in excess of one million). Although such cities are stationary (i.e., nonmobile), they can be suspended in the sky at altitudes of up to one kilometer.

Tech Level 14: Gravitic-supported cities that can move about are introduced. Such cities can now reach altitudes of over 10 kilometers.

Tech Level 15: Gravitic cities can now reach orbit on their own. Complex terraforming involving an entire hemisphere becomes commonplace Reliable seismic quake control is also common.

Above the Imperium's highest tech level:

Tech Level 16: Global terraforming becomes commonplace, allowing substantial improvements in a world with an unfavorable global environment. For example, transforming a world with an insidious atmosphere to a world with a standard atmosphere is global terraforming

Beyond Tech Level 16: Total terraforming appears at tech level 17 and beyond. Total terraforming involves complete transformation of a world's basic environment to a radically different basic environment of one's choosing For example, transforming a barren vacuum world to a lush, rich world with a dense atmosphere is total terraforming. At extremely high tech levels, moving entire planets about, even through jump space, becomes possible.

 

[HG_B]

The MegaTraveller Referee's Companion (pp 31-32) has the following:

Thanks. I m looking more for a process to follow games wise. (Best if influenced by the list in MT or other edition.) The mag references have some good ideas.

 

[BlackBat242]

Tech Level 7 (circa1970): Civil engineering advances enough to make entire underground cities possible.

See my post in the " Underground Living in Traveller" thread.

 

[Ulsyus]

What're you planning HG?

 

[HG_B]

What're you planning HG?

I am designing a new system gen for areas inhabited for long periods by TL 10 - 15 societies. Thus, I need some basic idea of what can be done in an x-y time frame to modify certain world attributes during generation.

 

[Carlobrand]

I am designing a new system gen for areas inhabited for long periods by TL 10 - 15 societies. Thus, I need some basic idea of what can be done in an x-y time frame to modify certain world attributes during generation.

That sounds interesting. I've got no idea what's out there to help you in the way of canon references other than what's already been posted, but I'd very much like to hear what you come up with.

 

[HG_B]

That sounds interesting. I've got no idea what's out there to help you in the way of canon references other than what's already been posted, but I'd very much like to hear what you come up with.

I haven't found anything else. But what was listed is sufficient I believe. I now just have to figure out SIMPLE adjustments to Hydro & Atmos then Pop that works on a table as part of the gen die rolls.

I'll post when I have something worthwhile (at least IMO) to share.

 

[Ulsyus]

HG, have you had a look at some of the material about modifying starport and TL ratings from the T4 Pocket Empires book? They might be handy in terms of coming up with some scaled costs based on those two lesser changes.

 

[rnadams2]

Grand Survey (CT Module published in 1986 by DGP) covers terraforming in a bit of detail.