MISSILES

TECHNOLOGY LEVELS

TL TL DESCRIPTION MISSILE EXAMPLES
-10 Prehistoric
-9 Stone Age
-8 Bronze Age Greek and Roman Catapults
-7 Iron Age
-6 Middle Ages ~500-1400AD Unguided, unpropelled shells and early rockets
-5 Renaissance ~1400-1500
-4 Age of Sail/Exploration ~1500-1760
-3 Industrial/Technological Revolutions ~1760-1914
-2 World War I and II ~1914-1945 Guided, Self-Propelled Missiles and Torpedoes
-1 Atomic/Nuclear/Space Age ~1946-1970's
0 Information Age ~1970s-2020s (Now) Rise of cruise missiles, theoretical ground to space missiles
+1 Synthetic (Biological/Intelligence) Age ~2020-2199 Intelligent deterministic missiles
+2 Stellar Age ~2100+ Early ground to space and space to ground systems
+3 Slower-Than-Light Interstellar Age System-wide cruise missiles - no intersystem combat possible
+4 Massless Faster-Than-Light (Communication) Sophisticated deterrence missile network coordination
+5 Mass Faster-Than-Light (Travel) System to system missile carriers
+6 Faster-Than-Light Interstellar Age Inter-system strategic missiles
+7 Galactic Age
+8 Extragalactic Age Inter-galactic strategic missiles
+9 Pre-Ascendant Wishlike missile systems
+10 Post-Ascendance Missiles are no longer used or required

Note: From TL+2 (Stellar Age) onward, multiple technology levels become possible in a setting as different distant locations diverge in their technological capabilities and social conventions.

Chronology