Animal

No tools, primarily animal instincts

Neolithic (Basic tools)

Like prehistoric people before metal tools.

• Fire
• Clubs and daggers
• Bows
• Simple weaving and clothing
• Mud and wood structures
• Simple farming
• Herbal medicine and herbal drugs

Classical

(Improved tools, without newer resources)

• Bronze and Iron weapons

Early Medieval

(Improved tools, with newer resources, without advanced equipment)

• Animal oil, lamps, complex ovens
• Compasses, eyeglasses, microscopes, telescopes
• Advanced non-mechanized farming, crop rotation, fallow, fertilizers, animal yokes

Late Medieval

(Improved tools, with newer resources, with advanced equipment)

Renaissance

(Early Firearms, without newer resources)

• Muskets
• Simple chemistry

Industrial

Covers the First industrial revolution.

• Smokeless powder [No Gas-powered Guns yet, but does have early rotary machine guns]
• Repeating firearms
• Prosthetics
• Reciprocating steam engine replaced by gas turbines, internal combustion engines and electric motors
• Hydro and wind energy sources

Machine

The Machine age covers from the Second Industrial Revolution until the end of WW2.

• Self-repeating firearms of blowback and gas operation
• Land-based vehicles
• Airplanes
• Radio and phonograph technology
• High-speed printing presses, enabling the production of low-cost newspapers and mass-market magazines
• Development and employment of modern war machines such as tanks, aircraft, submarines and the modern battleship

Midworld

End of WW2 - Present. Represents our modern day technology

• Late Firearms
• Hydro power, solar power, nuclear fission power
• Jet-powered planes
• Single-gene modification
• Silicon computers
• Simple body implants (cochlear implant, pacemaker, knee replacement)
• Classifier-level AI
• Television

Spacer

Regular interstellar space travel is possible because of JT drive.

• Stellarator fusion power, fusion rocket
• Johnson-Tanaka drive
• Pulse-charged projectile weapons
• Human-usable laser weapons
• Human-usable coilguns
• Complex trait gene modification, customizable
• Cryptosleep
• Complex body/brain implants (joywire, motivator, painstopper)
• Bionics (biogel nerve link, lattice-dust for self-healing)
• Plasteel
• Power armor (plasteel, neuro-memetic robotics)
• Artificial meat
• Subpersona-level AI
• Simple mechanoids for companionship, combat and labor use
• Synthread

Ultratech

The peak of human technological achievement; necessary for a glitterworld civilization.

• Self-replicating controllable nanotech
• Full gene recombination
• Persona-level AI
• Graser weapons (gamma-ray lasers)
• Advanced brain implants (sense data replacement, computation and memory enhancement)
• Antimatter containment and production
• Full body part regrowth, full body cloning
• Advanced quasi-conscious mechanoids for companionship, combat and labor use
• Hyperweave
• Advanced JT drive, inertia displacement, artificial gravity

Archotech

Not invented or understood by humans, archotech devices are created by machine superintelligences.

• Archotech AI
• Psychic effectors
• Vanometric energy
• Acausal and atemporal devices