Gerard Deneth
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Posted - 2007.03.29 04:37:00 -
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Another thing to contend with is the implication about colonization this side of the EVE gate. My understanding is that much of the major industry that supports a high tech race never was moved onto this side of the gate, and what was moved remained in New Eden. Naturally when the EVE gate went boom, technological collapse followed. The main suggestion is that the various races that now populate EVE never succeeded in using what little they had to down-gear, that is to say to use their remaining tech base to manufacture the basic hardware to maintain a lower, yet still advanced technological base and retain the technological and cultural knowledge that existed in the collective mindset.
Granted, it is indeed possible that the Jovians were the only ones who succeeded in doing this. It would explain quite well both why they are so far ahead of everyone else technologically, and perhaps why they retain the name "Jovians" as well. Why else do they not only retain the name of Sol's greatest planet, but the name of one of (terran) history's most powerful and arrogant gods. It might do well to explain the nature of the Jovian Disease far more than CCP would care to admit...
As for life on the other side of EVE, the distance between Earth and the gate has never been established. If the gate was a substantial distance away (which seems plausible, otherwise current day scientists might have detected the gravitational distortion a naturally occurring wormhole would cause. With this assumption, and the secondary, somewhat supported one that humanity had spread far and wide within our own galaxy, I doubt that Earth was unduly affected by the collapse. Yes, civilization on the other side would have been dealt a blow equivalent to a tunguska-scale event on earth today, but it would not have caused a total failure of civilization.
On the same note, Sol isn't big enough to go nova. Just not massive enough. Now, when it does eventually die it will swell up to becoming a large orange giant (when it switches from fusing helium to iron, IIRC). When this happens, Mercury and Venus will be absorbed, and Earth most likely baked to a crisp. Mars is about 50/50 for maintaining something resembling habitable conditions, and suddenly working out around Jupiter will be much, much more pleasant.
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