RE: [OOC][PLOT] Planning for Arc 2 - Crisis on Infinite Earths
08-22-2021, 08:12 AM (This post was last modified: 08-22-2021, 08:15 AM by Dartz.)
08-22-2021, 08:12 AM (This post was last modified: 08-22-2021, 08:15 AM by Dartz.)
The Prime Directive makes for good drama, but the basic ethos makes a sense.
You don't get involved because interplanetary politics becomes a race to find uncontacted Civ's to get them involved
Uplifting Civis is a lot like putting a Turtle on a Post - it's fun at first -- but they'll probably fall off and hurt themselves if you don't spend a lot of time trying to keep them there.
And generally, even when Contact has been entirely peaceful and well intended - the contacted Civ tends to get fucked over hard and end up mostly dead. Lets not be King Leopold in Space ---- too much Sci-Fi is like that.
You don't get involved because interplanetary politics becomes a race to find uncontacted Civ's to get them involved
Uplifting Civis is a lot like putting a Turtle on a Post - it's fun at first -- but they'll probably fall off and hurt themselves if you don't spend a lot of time trying to keep them there.
And generally, even when Contact has been entirely peaceful and well intended - the contacted Civ tends to get fucked over hard and end up mostly dead. Lets not be King Leopold in Space ---- too much Sci-Fi is like that.
I love the smell of rotaries in the morning. You know one time, I got to work early, before the rush hour. I walked through the empty carpark, I didn't see one bloody Prius or Golf. And that smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole carpark, smelled like.... ....speed.
One day they're going to ban them.