Ensuring post-apocalyptic survival at TL8?

Agramer · 11-25-2009, 11:34 AM

I think you would need around 2000 people there.All adult pairs 1000 males +1000 females....due need for population growth speed.

Starting 2 years would be spent in hard labour of setting things up.Next 3-8 years,depending on climate,would be spent in consolidating things,moving from makeshift homes to sturdier ones,"building civilisation"..from plumbing,electricity,kindergartens(very important due labour needs),schools....made to last.

From 5th year on baby-boom is to be expected and enforced.Anywhere from 50-70% of female population will be pregnant.On TL7/8 artificial fertilization would be used to speed process up and more importantly to gain on genetic diversity (If cloning is available all families would be required to foster few clone kids).Most likely minimum number of children would be prescribed per family,anywhere from 4+,somewhat again depending on climate and other conditions of life.

Targeted goal for baby boom would be minimum increasing twofold population/generation though more likely it would be up to 3 fold increase.

Major problem such community would face in early years is food.So you could expect 65-70% of population becoming farmers.Further 20% would be miners,due extensive need of higher TLs for mineral ores.5% would be in science/education(preserving TL knowledge) and 4-9 in construction,with 1% in exploration/security/hunting....
This numbers are very rough and there would be much overlap,community projects pulling on whole or part of population base,wast majority of people chosen would be multiedisciplined....

Than Big question is:

How much technology,spare parts can they bring with them? ...

If unlimited (as theyre in bunker on Earth in stasis for 20y before opening vault) than things look peachy for them.

If theyre going with starships,multidimensional devices...etc..anything restricting amount of gear they can bring with them than ...

....First generation will have to downscale their TL by 2-4 TLs depending on discipline....than they will have to extract ores,build tools to build tools to build tools to start producing their TL stuff.Process could last several generations depending on area/discipline/science involved.

Thats from top of my head..interesting topic though :))

11-25-2009, 11:34 AM	#2
Agramer Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Zagreb,Croatia	Re: Ensuring post-apocalyptic survival at TL8? I think you would need around 2000 people there.All adult pairs 1000 males +1000 females....due need for population growth speed. Starting 2 years would be spent in hard labour of setting things up.Next 3-8 years,depending on climate,would be spent in consolidating things,moving from makeshift homes to sturdier ones,"building civilisation"..from plumbing,electricity,kindergartens(very important due labour needs),schools....made to last. From 5th year on baby-boom is to be expected and enforced.Anywhere from 50-70% of female population will be pregnant.On TL7/8 artificial fertilization would be used to speed process up and more importantly to gain on genetic diversity (If cloning is available all families would be required to foster few clone kids).Most likely minimum number of children would be prescribed per family,anywhere from 4+,somewhat again depending on climate and other conditions of life. Targeted goal for baby boom would be minimum increasing twofold population/generation though more likely it would be up to 3 fold increase. Major problem such community would face in early years is food.So you could expect 65-70% of population becoming farmers.Further 20% would be miners,due extensive need of higher TLs for mineral ores.5% would be in science/education(preserving TL knowledge) and 4-9 in construction,with 1% in exploration/security/hunting.... This numbers are very rough and there would be much overlap,community projects pulling on whole or part of population base,wast majority of people chosen would be multiedisciplined.... Than Big question is: How much technology,spare parts can they bring with them? ... If unlimited (as theyre in bunker on Earth in stasis for 20y before opening vault) than things look peachy for them. If theyre going with starships,multidimensional devices...etc..anything restricting amount of gear they can bring with them than ... ....First generation will have to downscale their TL by 2-4 TLs depending on discipline....than they will have to extract ores,build tools to build tools to build tools to start producing their TL stuff.Process could last several generations depending on area/discipline/science involved. Thats from top of my head..interesting topic though :)) Last edited by Agramer; 11-25-2009 at 11:37 AM.