Thread:The Clanden/@comment-5024875-20120824171748/@comment-5365119-20120829011655

A "colony" on your world had somehow developed space travel and nobody knew about it?

How did your leaders even know how what a FTL engine was? How could they personally design one when just a few years prior, firearms were unheard of? How did they even know that traveling to the stars was even possible? Most civilizations in history up to the Renaissance thought that, one way or another, the sky (and stellar objects) was painted there for their enjoyment and would always be stationary.

Bypassing the logic that any country with such advanced technology (if they can build STL spacecraft, then they've also developed things such as advanced firearms, electricity, rocketry, computers, nuclear power, possibly energy weapons, and so on) would have needed to subjugate lesser civilizations for their land (for natural resources and as an outlet for their booming populations). The colonization of the Americas are a prime example of this.

Bypassing that, how in the world did your civilizations with clubs, arrows, spears, and swords manage to defeat and subjugate a much more advanced civilization that could have wiped them out in a second with orbital spacecraft launching nuclear warheads?

Bypassing that, any man who is used to being grounded, to interpret the world only through his experiences and through what his eyes see would consider such an advanced civilization as gods. From there, he either worships them, or fears them. If he fears them, he will try to futilely resist them, acting irrationally in his terror.

Theoretically, if a tribal civilization did manage to topple a space-faring nation, they would immediately go about destroying everything they ever made so that it might not be used against them again. Sure, they'll have picked up a weapon or two and learned how to use it, but everything else, meaning the warheads, they craft, everything they can't understand would pass to the torch. They definitely would not start to understand advanced physics, rocketry, quantum mechanics, relativity and so on right then and there.

My point is: That doesn't make any sense.