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   * Proceeded by 2nd age [[stone age]]
-The Metal [[technological age|Age]] is a fascinating time of expansion and rapidly growing sophistication. It usually occurs on planets when a single technically ascendant nation state delves into imperial expansion ahead of others. But it may include any number of such aspirational nation states as long as industrial, technological and militia parity is present, and primitve states remain available.
+The Metal [[technological age|Age]] is an extremely long lasting age and is perhaps one of the most sedate. The longest recorded planetary arc that exists for a perpatual Metal Age is maintained on the [[humans|Human]] world of [[Rhodicon]], which still continues to exist in the Metal Age after over 24,000 uninterupted years.
-During the Factory Age the domination of primitive states occurs, which swallows up large amounts of communities but creates a socio-economic developmental platform for planetary inhabitants that is now globalised, holistic and unifying.
+The Metal Age is characterised by high inter-state competition, low population urban areas, low (or non existant) mass production, transient forms of currency that do not travel well, poor educational espousement and low regard of the intelligensia, no global view of the world among said intelligensia and the existance of city states which are able to remain internationally viable.
-This imperial power is almost always suplanted or fatigued, but it remains interventioist.
+In short the Metal age lacks a major super power that is able to sustain mass production, and a global view of the world.
-The factory age differs from colonial or expansionist ages of other types because the urbanisation that occurs rapidly also results in mass production; a key differentiating component.
+Lastly 2 or 3 civilisations may belong to the metal age and be super powers in their sphere of the planet yet not actually meet due to the very poor global awareness levels of the intelligensia.
   * Succeeded by 4th age [[factory age]]