The following ratings are an average guideline to the degree of technological understanding and expertise possessed by a character. This number will function as a benchmark for what sort of technology you can understand, manipulate, repair, and build. All new tech must be approved by the Character Alterations wizards, but your character's techlevel rating will give you an idea of what you can reasonably expect to accomplish, given time and resources.

rating		description		examples
1		Fair grasp of native language, simple machines, simple tools.		Caliban, Barbarus, Hulk, Klaw, Leech
2		Limited exposure to technology. Knows to plug it in.		Blob, Boom-Boom, Callisto, Dazzler, Vertigo
3		Operate early 1990s Technology. Set the VCR program timer.		Colossus, Sabretooth, Wolverine, Yukio
4		Repair and install common technological devices and machines.		Captain America, Cyclops, Mystique, Rogue, Scalphunter
5		Modify and adapt existing high-technology items and devices.		Arcade, Box, Sebastian Shaw, Toad, Larry Trask
6		Understand very advanced and complex technologies.		Beast, Kitty, Moira MacTaggart, Donald Pierce, Spider
7		Create tech on the cutting edge of current human knowledge.		Apocalypse, Forge, Professor X, Magneto, Tony Stark, Sinister
8		Create technology at human theoretical limits. Push the envelope.		Mister Fantastic, Doctor Doom
9		Understand, manipulate, and modify advanced alien technology.		High Evolutionary, Stranger
10		Fashion and fathom Cosmic Technologies.		Arishem, Galactus, Uatu