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Perfect eden - Whence conflict?
Let's look at actual Eden.
You say:
The planet is a literal Eden. ... Why would any conflict arise?
Have you read the story of Eden? Adam and Eve are placed in the Garden in chapter 2 of the book of ...
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Perfect eden - Whence conflict?
As others have said: because humans.
In the first instance, no matter how much of an "Eden" the planet is, there will still be resources that are limited. And that generally leads to ...
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Perfect eden - Whence conflict?
Love. Similar to the story of Helen of Troy. You've got a guy that is just so perfect and beautiful that every woman wants to have his babies. When he finally chooses a mate it turns out to be someone ...
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Perfect eden - Whence conflict?
Selfishness
As you are talking about Eden, let me draw a comparison with the Biblical account of what happened in the Garden of Eden. Coincidentally (or not), this is what most, or even all, of the ...
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Perfect eden - Whence conflict?
There will be conflict over resources. While an Eden may have plentiful resources, they are still limited. And to make matters worse, a society is limited not by the sum total of resources, but by the ...
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Perfect eden - Whence conflict?
elemtilas has an excellent, but somewhat depressing answer:
"Because humans".
That might be true, but one can still wonder what set off the conflict. What were the first two groups to fight?...
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Perfect eden - Whence conflict?
Since the dawn of agriculture and the end of hunter gathering, humans have been tied to specific areas of land for farming purposes. Farming under ideal conditions can lead to a great abundance of ...
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Perfect eden - Whence conflict?
Ideology clash
Hello ye olde SMAC, which actually described how humans can war endlessly about some hand-waved dogmas or ethical principles. Your planet is a lot more friendly to humans than Chiron, ...
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Perfect eden - Whence conflict?
Just an option that I find personally compelling:
You could have a conflict arise from a perceived crime committed by a member of the colony, perhaps one colonist takes the life of another, but the ...
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Perfect eden - Whence conflict?
Economic Change
At the beginning of the settlement, there were lots of economic benefits from being near the point of landing, because that was the highest concentration of labor, useable materials, ...
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Perfect eden - Whence conflict?
The basic observation is that nothing created by imperfect mortal men lasts forever. Not buildings, not machines, not political systems. Buildings, and machines, and political systems need constant ...
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Perfect eden - Whence conflict?
Human Colonists
You answered your own query. Humans are broken creatures. Almost by nature, it seems. They are contrary, restless, easily gruntled, and even more easily disgruntled. You can give a ...
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Perfect eden - Whence conflict?
Your answer lies in what the world they left looks like more than what the world they landed on looks like. A similar but different piece of world building would be the vaults in the fallout series, ...
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