Rationalizing a Firefly - Serenity type setting

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Originally Posted by Flyndaran

So these people that farm literal cattle are the dark age descendants of people capable of creating, moving, and setting up rosettes of habitable earth like planets using magi-tech?

That's bordering on STNG's Q power.

Or just massive inequality. The descendants of the terraformers are likely the Core worlds, with the Rim people just dumped out on the more marginal worlds. The crew/passenger divides of Lord of Light or The Steerswoman were more extreme, in their ways.