Master Technology Table

Era	Periods	Materials	Energy	Transportation	Information	Biology	Armament
Sapient	2.5M-1M BC	Wood, bone, stone	Muscle	Muscle			Clubs
Adaptive	1M-300K BC		Fire				Stone axes
Syntactic	300K-35K BC	Skins			Syntactic Language		Spears
Symbolic	35K-8K	Textiles		Canoes, Kayaks	Symbolic drawings	Herbal medicine	Bows
Neolithic	8000-5000BC	Clay		Domesticated animals	Pictographs	Agriculture, domesticated animals
Chalcolithic	5000-3500BC	Cooper, gold, stone construction		Road networks	Writing, abacus		Cooper axes
Metal	3500BC-1300CE	Bronze, Iron	Primitive water and wind	Wheel, Galley, Sail ships	Heliograph		Metal Armor, swords, Siege engines, crossbows
Pre-Industrial	1300-1780CE	Gunpowder, simple chemistry	Advanced mechanical	Advanced sail ships	Printing press	Microbe detection	Cannon, muskets
Steam	1780-1840CE	Complex chemistry	Early steam	Early railroad, steam boat	Accurate clocks	Early vaccination	Advanced cannons, early rifles, handguns
Steel	1840-1900CE	Early steel alloys	Advanced steam, early electric grids, coal	Railroad, iron ships, dirigibles	Telegraph, mechanical calculators	Early surgery	Early artillery, rifles
Electrical	1900-1945CE	Advanced alloys	Internal combustion, hydrocarbons, primitive batteries	Automobile, propeller aircraft	Radio	Chemical remedies, surgery	Propelled artillery, armored vehicles, theatre missiles
Atomic	1945-1995CE	Plastics, composite materials	Fission power plant, early fuel cell, rechargeable batteries, primitive solar	Jet aircraft, helicopter, hydrofoil, hovercraft, nuclear sea vessels, expendable rockets	Radar, television, early computers, industrial robots	Antibiotics, organ transplantation	Fission-fusion bomb, sub-orbital missile, guided munitions, body armor
Information	1995-2040CE	Smart materials, nanotube carbon, amorphous metals, cold superconductors	Advanced batteries, fuel cells, solar array, hydrogen fuel grid	Magnetic rail, hypersonic aircraft, RLV orbital shuttles, Low thrust ion/plasma	Global info network, advanced computers, portable computers, simple robots	Retrovirus design, mammalian cloning, gene therapy	Smart munitions, ROV armament, IR-UV lasers, missile interceptors
Fabrication	2040-2090CE	Plastcrete composite, C12 macrostructures, fabrication plants, cool superconductors	He3/D fusion plant, ASP panels, early MSMH fusion	Beanstalks, low thrust fusion, high thrust plasma, early ramscoops	VR network, implanted computers, early Q computers, improved robots	Organism design, cell regeneration, Renuex regeneration, early hibernation	Wexler bombs, particle plasma guns, x-ray lasers, gauss cannons
Nano	2090-2150CE 2350-2460CE	Nanocomposites, fabricator rooms, warm superconductors	MSMH fusion plant	High thrust ion, advanced ramscoops	VR implants, effective Q computers, advanced robots, high cyborgs	Improved Constructs, rapid cloning, nanomed implants, improved hibernation	Powered armor, gamma lasers, gauss rifles, stun wands
Quantum	2150-2200CE 2460-2540CE 4800-5000CE	Biological materials, fabricator boxes, hot superconductors	Compact fusion plant, early antimatter	High thrust fusion, pseudograv repulsors, gravstar F1,F2	Sentient QC nodes, semi-sentient robots,	Improved nanomed, advanced hibernation, brain regeneration	Antimatter munitions, fusion cannon, plasma rifles, high gamma lasers
Vacuum	2200-2250CE 2540-2710CE 5000-5500CE	Animate matter, collapsed materials, containment fields	Vacuum distillation, antimatter devices, portable fusion packs	HSPG thruster, gravstar F3,DF, macrojump I, IIa	Advanced QC nodes, self replicating machines	Advanced nanomed, simple genetic Variants, Ultra regeneration	Positron cannons, fusion rifles, neural stun guns
Hyperstring	2250-2310CE 2710-2900CE 5500-6750CE	Molecular materials, open fabrication, gravity compensation	Advanced distillation, antimatter batteries	Advanced HSPG, tactical teleporters, gravstar SD, macrojump IIb,c	Sentient QC robots, memory transfers, artificial life	Mental restoration, Zenith regeneration, Restoration regen	radiant shields, disintegrator cannons, planet busters, autonomous warbots
Post-Material	2310-2350CE 2900-3250CE some 6750CE+	Living metal, degenerate materials, rapid fabrication	Compact distillation, antimatter minicells	Orbital teleporters, planetary rings, microjump I-II, (macrojump III)	Sentient implants, HQ computers, simulariums	Full genome therapy, human-AI interface, Life Therapy, Eternal Therapy	Gray forcefields, disintegrator rifles, disruptor cannons
Transformational	3250-3800CE	Real-time fabricators	Portable distillers	Single node teleport, personal starships, microjump III-IV	Full AI-bio interface	Incremental biomorphisis, Elixir/Extensor drugs	Clear force fields, hand disintegrators, hand disruptors
Early Worm	3800-4200CE	Quantum materials	Dark energy panels	Worm drive A-C (microjump V-VII)	Sentient matter	Full biomorphisis	Stasis cannons
Worm/Stasis	4200-4800CE	Q-Stasis materials	Dark energy chips	Teleport suits, lunar teleporters, worm drive D-E (F)		Rymar stabilization	Stasis rifles
High Worm	Founders			Planetary gateways, worm drive F-G			Nova bombs
Gate	Gatebuilders			Interstellar gateways, (worm drive H-I)?

Note on technology era periods:

The dates above represent the periods that correspond with the maximum sustainable technology level in Human Space. Especially during the sixth millennium and later, some Grand Federation technology one level higher than the Human Space norm leaked into interstellar civilizations in the Coreward Region, Mendam Codominium and Star Kingdoms Confederacy, though such technology was neither widespread nor sustainable. Certain specific applications of bio-machine interfaces remained at higher technological levels though the efforts of the Zhretra and the Mechanist Church. The Zhantlas Union, in its close relationship with the Grand Federation reached sustainable early microjump technology by 6100CE. Conversely, many worlds and even entire interstellar states lagged considerably behind the maximum levels indicated above. Not only did some worlds retain only an iron age culture, but the Terran Khalifate, for instance, remained at early macrojump levels far into the seventh millennium. Similar lags occurred during the Dark Age preceding the Empire of Humanity, with Terra remaining in the late fusion era well into the twenty-eighth century and some colony worlds reverting to pre-industrial or iron age civilizations before recontact.