Interesting, another things for people running games to muse on and work out just why things like that might be, mind you, Jack Vance's Demon Princes series features a few worlds where the population is a single family.


From: Caleuche <xxxxxx@sudnadja.com>
To: "xxxxxx@simplelists.com" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
Sent: Friday, 19 January 2018, 15:02
Subject: [TML] Population vs Tech Level

While looking through some of the map data, it became apparent that there is a pretty sharp cut off at TL 5 - world below TL 5 are fairly uncommon:


And a huge number of Traveller worlds have population codes between 4 and 7 with tech levels between 7 and 13. Random worlds that Travellers visit will be less populated than midsize cities - the median imperial world population is ~700,000. 



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