Timeline for What could prevent my world from progressing past the early industrial age?
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| Mar 31, 2021 at 21:43 | comment | added | Nosajimiki | @MikeSerfas Ah... so something like Battlestar Galactica where humanity kept inventing Cylons over and over again to almost wipe us out because it is in our nature to invent Cylons. "This has all happened before and it will all happen again" | |
| Mar 31, 2021 at 21:07 | comment | added | Mike Serfas | @Nosajimiki: I'll admit I was a little cryptic. The dragons tried making an Undo feature like in Rick Cook's book. But it actually undoes everything in the area, so that they go back and do the exact same thing all over again. Maybe their actions change a little as plate tectonics alters the surrounding landscape, but they still get to some point in their magical construction activities for the colony that leads them to attempt another Undo. And every time ... it's right back to the boot screen for their civilization. | |
| Mar 31, 2021 at 18:52 | comment | added | Nosajimiki | That said, I guess there could be a forced Undo sort of thing. John Ringo had a book like that in his Looking Glass series where every time this alien civilization developed electricity, it would awaken an army of dragon like creatures that would come and destroy everything they had. | |
| Mar 31, 2021 at 18:49 | comment | added | Nosajimiki | This could delay progress but not prevent it over millions of years. Having a technological undo button is fine, but everytime they undo things, they would generally be inclined to try something else next time. In all likelihood, this means that after a few re-starts they will have a very clean and well balanced technological foundation established and not have a reason to undo past advancements. Eventually, they will have a very desirable outcome and not want to undo it. | |
| Mar 31, 2021 at 12:34 | comment | added | jmoreno | Sounds like Rick Cook, first book was Wizard’s Bane, available at: baen.com/Chapters/201602FT1/201602FT1.htm | |
| Mar 31, 2021 at 0:55 | history | answered | Mike Serfas | CC BY-SA 4.0 |