TECHNOLOGICAL IMPROVEMENT REGULATION ACT

Section 1: Tech improvement (henceforth abbreviated as “T.I.”) shall be defined as the taking of
research materials from a research facility for the purposes of improving tech score with
the consent of both parties.
Subsection 1.1: Houses conducting TI missions shall be referred to here as the
“receiving house”
Subsection 1.2: Houses owning the research facilities to be donated to the TI
effort shall be referred to here as the “donor house”

Section 2: All TI in Capricorn must follow the following guidelines:

Subsection 2.1: TI missions must be conducted with the consent of the facility
owner
Subsection 2.2: Research facilities raided for the purposes of TI must emptied
of all personnel prior to the tech improvement mission.
Subsection 2.3: No loss of life may occur during a TI mission
Subsection 2.4: No payments in any form may be demanded of the receiving
house from the donor house
Subsection 2.5: All feud score generated by TI, including those belonging to
houses allied with the donor house, must be absolved promptly
Subsection 2.6: TI may not occur between allied houses, current or recent.
Recent is defined as within 3 months.
Subsection 2.7: A maximum of nine facilities may be donated to a TI mission

Section 3: A priority list, hereby-named the “Tech Improvement Priority List” or the “TIP List”,
shall be established.
Subsection 3.1: All houses conducting TI must belong to this list
Subsection 3.2: The TIP List shall order member houses from the lowest tech
level to the highest to tech level.
Subsection 3.3: Only the top four houses may conduct TI. After their missions
are complete they will be moved to the bottom of the list or
removed from the list completely if no longer eligible.
Subsection 3.4: Houses must request to join the TIP List. No house shall be
automatically added. In their request, the applying house must
report their current tech level.
Subsection 3.5: Only houses that are at only one point above the current
galactic average or lower are eligible for the TIP List
Subsection 3.6: Houses on the TIP List must make regular reports of their tech
level in order to keep the list up to date and to inform the donor
houses.
Subsection 3.7: Houses conducting TI missions while not eligible to do so
under the TIP List will be immediately given Renegade status,
to be lifted only by the Senate.