User:Delta Team Curt/Colonial Automotive Transportation Index

The Colonial Automotive Transportation Index is the classification system and development model that resulted from the industry wide reform of the development and manufacturing during the early 2430's intended to create a more adaptable and capable range of vehicles for use on both developing colony worlds, and the established core worlds of the United Nations. Designed to correspond with conditions on colonial worlds, the six tiers of are based on those of the UN Colonial Development Index in order to provide transports suitable to operate with available infrastructure and services. Vehicles in the lower tiers of CATI employ numerous standardized components, and are intended to be repaired 'in the rough' by colonists without the need for expensive diagnostic or extensive training; where those of the higher tiers offer a much larger variety in design, and make use of advanced automotive technologies.

Trivia

 * During the 2510's, the term 'Cadi' originated from the systems acronym as a derogatory term for Colonists, as well as refugees fleeing worlds caught in the grip of the Insurrection.