01-14-2018, 04:26 PM | #61 | |
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01-14-2018, 05:24 PM | #62 |
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I had a similar idea where benefactor aliens export humans to an artificial habitat -- essentially allowing humans to rebuild their societies on the (insert cool Big Dumb Object here).
Then there's the actual rescue process. Aliens show up to explain that a phenomenon that doesn't match our know physics is going to destroy Earth. What method do they use to explain the problem? Do they try to teach us first where our physics is wrong (which requires accelerators of much higher energy level than what we currently have), or do they try emotional, or even manipulative means in order to save humanity? |
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I think though the problem is that if the aliens have 80 years to work with and the tech to lift 1940s human population off the Earth, they should be able to run a megaproject to shield the planet anyway. Maybe they have excellent wormhole tech and everything else is TL9. The disaster is going to strike in less than 1 year's time. The aliens can erect multiple large wormholes to a human-habitable safe planet. Everyone can get out, they have to be willing and able to travel to a wormhole and walk (or drive) through. Of course, many millions of people simply won't want to go. Some governments will actively prevent people from leaving or reaching wormholes which are activated in their territory. Actually this is probably a bigger story than the Return To Earth. |
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01-14-2018, 06:25 PM | #64 |
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The Mandate: Instead of a faux Rome in space, a faux Chinese Empire in space. NeoConfucian legalism and bioroids instead of eunuchs.
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01-14-2018, 07:31 PM | #65 |
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There's a sci fi trilogy or longer series with Earth ruled by a brutal racist Chinese empire. Those seeking FTL drives are hunted rebels.
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01-15-2018, 05:02 PM | #66 | |
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I could see great migrations of peoples seeking peace and security.
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01-15-2018, 07:24 PM | #68 |
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Ringworlds possess millions of times the area of Earth, so humans would be very spread out (around 1 person per million square kilometers). Humanity would go extinct within a century just because it would be impossible to find anyone to breed with.
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01-15-2018, 08:22 PM | #69 |
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Well they'd go extinct if the aliens decided to make human population density uniform across an entire Ringworld, but they might decide to apply a less extreme version of 'scattered'.
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01-16-2018, 05:43 AM | #70 |
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Agreed! They'd scatter the nations and communities. The people who make up these communities would be more clumped together. England might be twelve thousand miles from Wales. Nations might be on different sides of the great oceans or maybe even on one of the island maps of worlds.
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