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Frezik
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Posted - 2007.01.18 22:47:00 - [1]

Edited by: Frezik on 18/01/2007 22:44:38

Originally by: Wyckoff
But all of them? Did no one keep a basic library? Were they all dependent on Oil from Earth, because I would hope that Solar Power and other renewable energy sources would have caught on by then and that relatively self sufficient communities would naturally arise.

Energy wouldn't have been a problem. Once you have a cheep, reliable way to escape a planet's gravity well, you open up a lot of renewable energy source. Orbital solar arrays can beam energy down with microwave emitters. Hydrogen harvested from gas giants can be put into fuel cells. Some gas giants (like Jupiter) may have such a strong magnetic field that you can pluck energy out of the air.

The problems likely came from a lack of other natural resources, such as metals, without the industrial capacity to get them without trade.

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When has collective humanity really taken such a dramatic technological turn-around? Even the Dark-ages of Europe only refer to the loss of a strong central government and the relatively fair legal system.

All together? Never, but until the 19th/20th century, humanity was segmented enough that a downfall of one civilization wouldn't affect others. This isn't the same situation today, or what is described in Eve history.

The European dark age was hardly the only dark age, though. Greece went through a dark age of its own around 1000 BC. During this time, they lost their original written language (the new one borrowed its alphabet from the Phoenicians), and artwork become much simpler.

Edit: woah, didn't catch the major necro-post here.

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