Macrotech / Macroscale Civilisations
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Macrotech / Macroscale Societies and
Civilisations - Data Panel
Tech Level: Low Tech to basic High Tech Tech Scale/Density: Macroscopic, although non-isolated societies will inevitably have higher level artifacts acquired through trade Median Toposophic Level of Citizens: So:1 - SI:0.3 (Baseline Equivalent) Major Sophont Phyla: Bionts only. Terragen clades may be baseline or nearbaseline, splice, rianth, provolves, and/or tweaks Energy and Material Requirements: Usually Low, but in more advanced (crude industrialised) societies very high and inefficient Maintenance Requirements: Low, due to simplicity of technology (mechanical macroscale) Chronometric Rate: Slow only Maximum Practical Kardashev Number: Dry-tech/industrial based: perhaps up to 0.4 (usually less) Biotech/agriculturally based: usually << 0.1 Median Toposophic Level of Citizens: So:1 / SI:0.3 = Baseline Equivalent Predominant Subjective Time: Slow (organic metabolic) Maximum Kardashev Number: << I to < I Galactographic Distribution: some Caretaker God and primitivist Utopia Sphere protectorates; a number of societums, some ludd polities, some NoCoZo immersive prim and ludd themeworlds Characteristic Societies and Civilizations: historically, pre-Industrial and Industrial Age Old Earth, xenosophont equivalents. Currently, various societum cultures, both reconstructed and novel; Low Tech civilizations in general. Further Comments: Macroscale civilisations control structures and energy using macroscopic (on the order of meters to millimeters and less) tools. This is where naturally evolved civilisations begin. The emphasis is on bulk and quantity. Energy is produced by wasteful use of organic matter (e.g. wood), or, if industrialised, fossil fuels (hydrocarbons - coal, petroleum, natural gas), by nuclear fission (with its dangerous environmental consequences). Preindustrial civilizations will also, and in some neoprimitivist worlds solely, utilise natural (renewable) sources like wind, wave and tide motion. Indigenous macroscale civilisations are almost always bound to a planet, either a world that has not yet developed space flight, or more commonly specially set aside habitats, or societums which can maintain a macroscale civilization in a large habitat indefinitely. These civilisations are not at all competitive in the modern galaxy; they survive only in special colonies, reserves and societums. Those that are released from their societums are quickly assimilated into the wider galactic culture, along with the usual social break down and loss of indigenous culture |
