Level 0: (Age of Suckyness)
- Society does not use fire and is not capable of making tools.
- Its members can use readily available objects for tools.
- Transportation – foot
- Primitive Language.
- Hunter/Gathers.
Level 1: (Age of Fire)
- Society does use fire and makes simple tools from wood & stone.
- Clothing – Skins & plant fibers.
- Housing – wooden, grass or caves.
- Transportation – Animals.
- Weapons – Wooden spears, bow & arrows, clubs, blowguns, etc.
- Barter system, no money.
- Sophisticated language but non written.
- History is verbal or pictorial.
- Farmers or herdsmen.
- Manufacturing – Hands, teeth and simple wood & stone tools.
- Metal tools w/moving parts.
- Clothing – Leather & woven cloth.
- Housing – Wood & stone.
- Communication – Letters.
- Transportation – Chariot.
- Power – animals, people, wind, water or gravity.
- Weapons – Metal & wood.
- Siege Engines.
- Money & barter.
- Written Language.
- Some written history.
- Structured Government.
- Manufacturing – Wood & metal tools.
Level 3: (Age of Reason – European Renaissance)
- Housing – Wood, stone, ceramic, etc. Glass windows.
- Transportation – Carriage.
- Power – Springs & mechanisms that store kinetic energy.
- Weapons – Black Powder (Muskets & Musketeers). Cannons.
- Organized Military.
- Common currency.
- Printing Press.
- Manufacturing – Improved wood & metal tools, simple presses & wind & water powered machines.
Level 4: (Industrial Age)
- Housing – Any material including metal.
- Power – Electric & Chemical.
- Weapons – Guns that use bullets, exploding shells for cannons & land mines.
- Communication – Telegraph.
- Transportation – Self powered land & air vehicles (internal combustion engine).
- Manufacturing – Geared hand tools, steam, hydraulic & internal combustion powered machines.
Level 5: (Computer Age)
- Power – Nuclear Fission & Solar.
- Weapons – Recoilless weapons (lasers, nail guns, rail guns & etc.) & silencers.
- Communication – Telephone, Cell Phone, Internet.
- Transportation – Meka, electric engine.
- Manufacturing – Electric hand tools, Electric machines.
Level 6: (Space Age)
- Power – Nuclear Fusion & Anti-Matter.
- Weapons – Ion guns, particle accelerators & plasma guns.
- Communication – HyperPulse & Tachion.
- Transportation – OmniMeks (transforming meka).
- Manufacturing – Zero-G Processing & Nano Technology.
Level 7: (Age of Wonder)
