Xauxau
Caldari
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Posted - 2007.12.18 21:29:00 -
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Originally by: Jayson Sharpclaw But, seeing as how the home systems beyond EVE gate would not have suffered the same 'Fall' that we did, they would have not lost ANY technology as we did. Thus, they would have continued to advance technologically over the thousands of years that we have been here.
Maybe. Or maybe not.
I once had the rare privilege of meeting a Jovian while visiting the data library at the Impro logistics station in Airaken. When she found out I was there browsing historical fiction for purchase, she struck up a conversation and we had a long talk about the known history of Old Earth, The Eve Cluster and our respective civilizations.
What became clear from the conversation was that she was as almost as uncertain about the distant history of the Jovians as I was. The Jovians have expanded out into the cluster, and collapsed from a self-inflicted wound, on at LEAST three previous occasions. They are in the midst of another demographic collapse now. And each time, they've lost an enormous amount of technology, culture and history.
BTW, the wonderful woman I spoke with in Airaken died a few weeks later. Jovian Disease. She just ... stopped ... a few hours after diagnosis. Her digital assitant AI sent me a pleasantly worded funeral invitation and bio. She had lived four centuries and had a score of offspring, all of whom predeceased her. Jovian Disease. Her entire line going back three generations is dead. Jovian Disease. I attended the funeral. Only one Jovian was in attendance. All her other Jovian family, friends, colleagues and co-workers ... gone. Jovian Disease.
We may well see the final, complete Jovian collapse in our lifetimes.
There is no reason to expect our distant cousins on the other side of the Eve Gate have fared any better than the Jovians. Given what we know of Old Earth, they may have done much worse. The collapse of the Eve Gate may have been a direct consequence of Old Earth suddenly falling into a very dark, destructive age. The various Old Earth Empires were building weapons that make Jovian Disease look like the common cold and Rogue Drones look like bamboo swords. The Eve Cluster might well contain all thats left of humanity.
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