Timeline for How can a Dragon keep humanity in check?
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| Jan 17, 2018 at 19:26 | comment | added | Alexander | @NickDzink I agree, the goal is to keep overall tech level of humanity at the lowest possible level. For that, dragon's followers should be advanced just enough to crush their more advanced, but less militant neighbors. Think about GoT's Dothraki as an example. | |
| Jan 17, 2018 at 19:06 | comment | added | Ajedi32 | @NickDzink If you purposely try to limit the technological progress of your loyal followers though then they might not fare very well against their more technologically developed adversaries. | |
| Jan 17, 2018 at 15:27 | comment | added | Nick Dzink | I guess this answer needs to elaborate why exactly it picks nomadic tribes instead of sedentary cultures. Their labour division is subpar and therefore their technological progress would be slower allowing more room for operation before culling and less risk. Also the Dragon might want to promote 'harmful' cultural norms among these people like: 'never raise crops' 'don't breed animals but warhorses' 'never negotiate' 'might is right' etc making them dependable on raiding the other people and living off someone's expense instead of developing themselves. | |
| Jan 16, 2018 at 15:20 | comment | added | candied_orange | Wait a minute. I thought the plan was to stop humans from getting better at killing. | |
| Jan 16, 2018 at 13:28 | comment | added | Binary Worrier | +1. Also limit technology so all labor is manual and man won't develop any "energy harnessing" device more powerful than a bow. All research into explosives or other "fast energy release" tech must be stopped too. Religion is your friend here, with the All Powerful Dragon God backing it up. | |
| Jan 16, 2018 at 12:39 | comment | added | Peter Wone | @Graham - To prevent proliferation of his own followers, Ghenghis Drake will need to employ the usual tactic of totalitarian regimes: a lot of rules that are contradictory. Since everyone knows they have sinned, people think it's their own fault for not trying hard enough, those who are not accused are just grateful no-one has noticed their backsliding and the priesthood is gleefully zealous in a desperate demonstration of its own piety and loyalty. Once his followers are victorious this mechanism can stabilise the population. | |
| Jan 16, 2018 at 12:13 | comment | added | Graham | Worship is unnecessary. Following is all that is needed. Pick a tribe, and offer its leader world domination in exchange for doing your bidding. If he refuses, toast his tribe. Eventually a tribe will accept, and then they can say "join us or die" to every other tribe. Repeat on every continent. Of course there'll be occasional rebellions, but you can deal with them "pour encourager les autres". And by being a benign dictator (be scrupulous about not eating your followers!) you'll minimise rebellions. | |
| Jan 16, 2018 at 12:08 | comment | added | Joe Bloggs | @Shardmartin: You dare speak against our Lord and God? He who bringeth fire and fury upon our enemies? HERETIC!! Thou shalt burn in the belly of the brass dragon, so all may hear your screams! | |
| Jan 16, 2018 at 1:56 | comment | added | user32862 | But the fact that a dragon is flying around murdering people will be enough to unite around a common threat. Sooner or later other humans will turn on the dragon and his followers, feeling they have little to lose. | |
| Jan 16, 2018 at 1:35 | comment | added | Willk | Fine idea. Set a thief to catch a thief. | |
| Jan 16, 2018 at 1:02 | comment | added | HDE 226868♦ | I like this. Humans are unfortunately skilled at killing each other in our world; no reason why they shouldn't apply their abilities here. | |
| Jan 16, 2018 at 0:45 | history | answered | Alexander | CC BY-SA 3.0 |