On 19Dec2020 1944, Phil Pugliese - philpugliese at yahoo.com (via tml
list) wrote:

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> Except that we're talking about the TU, where TL15 is not uncommon.
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> It might be that a higher TL is needed for discovery but not for
> production.
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> In any case a TL6 world in the TU & combat thereupon will have little
> relevance to the combat situation on a totally isolated TL9 planet.
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It does, however, have relevance to combat within the Traveller
universe, which does not reflect the awesomeness of cloth (in MT - it's
not nearly so good in CT or TNE, for example).