Technology Scale

Energy

 * Class 1: Coal or Fossil Fuels.
 * Class 2: Hydro, Wind, Solar or Geothermal.
 * Class 3: Atomic or Nuclear.
 * Class 4: Fission or Fusion.
 * Class 5: Anti-Matter.
 * Class 6: Zero Point Energy

Resource Production

 * Tier 1: Hand-made.
 * Tier 2: Manufacturing.
 * Tier 3: Replication.

Computational Processing Speed

 * Level 1: 1 Byte per minute.
 * Level 2: 1 Kilobyte per minute.
 * Level 3: 1 Megabyte per minute.
 * Level 4: 1 Gigabyte per minute.
 * Level 5: 1 Terrabyte per minute.
 * Level 6: 1 Petabyte per minute.
 * Level 7: 1 Exabyte per minute.
 * Level 8: 1 Zettabyte per minute.
 * Level 9: 1 Yottabyte per minute.

Healthcare

 * Type 1: Natural medicine, cannot cure diease.
 * Type 2: Natural and synthetic medicine, can cure some dieases.
 * Type 3: Natural and synthetic medicine, can cure most dieases.
 * Type 4: Natural and synthetic medicine, can cure almost all diseases.
 * Type 5: Can cure all known dieases.
 * Type 6: Biological immortality has been discovered and might be applied to all members of society.

Artificial Intelligence

 * Rank 1: Non-sentient AI, can only do very simple tasks.
 * Rank 2: Non-sentient AI, can perform complex tasks.
 * Rank 3: Emotion-less Self-aware AI, can perform complex tasks.
 * Rank 4: Self-aware AI with emotions, can perform extremely difficult and complex tasks.
 * Rank 5: Fully-sapient AI with emotions, is more intelligent and complex than organic beings, and can perform almost any task.

Signal Speed

 * Rung 1: Travel time of 1 AU per year.
 * Rung 2: Travel time of 1 AU per month.
 * Rung 3: Travel time of 1 AU per day.
 * Rung 4: Travel time of 1 Light Year per month.
 * Rung 5: Travel time of 1 Light Year per day.
 * Rung 6: Travel time of 1 Light Year per hour.
 * Rung 7: Travel time of 1 Light Year per minute.
 * Rung 8: Travel time of 1 Light Year per second.
 * Rung 9: Travel time of 1 Light Year per milisecond.
 * Rung 10: Instant communication across the galaxy.

FTL Travel

 * Stage 1: 1 Light Year per month.
 * Stage 2: 1 Light Year per day.
 * Stage 3: 1 Light Year per hour.
 * Stage 4: 1 Light Year per minute.
 * Stage 5: 1 Light Year per second.
 * Stage 6: 1 Light Year per millisecond.