Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-25479664-20160418125948/@comment-10380701-20160418164115

The CCT is what happens when the space race doesn't happen and World War II ended with world peace.

Any kingdom who bothers to attack a CTT is gonna fuck themselves over, because all the CTTs are connected.

Once a CTT in a kingdom goes down, all allied forces are pretty much cut-off from whoever that stupid kingdom is. And as it's the only form of communication array in the world, it is not a very advisable tactic unless you want all of mankind to get fucked over.

Thus, all the four kingdoms will never do that.

The White Fang is unlikely to do it either because despite being terrorists, communication is an important thing.

So besides absolutely crazy mofos, no one in the world has any reason to attack the CTTs.

It's the equivalent of attacking an outpost where the Internet is being hosted. Sure, you can deal a critical blow on communications. But you also lose contact with your Facebook buddies all over the kingdom.

Thus, the very existence of the CTT hinges on the idea that no one is crazy enough to destroy it. And it's been that way for a long time.

For the record, we've only been using satellites for around 60 years. Our world is still changing, so the likelihood of our satellites actually being vulnerable is still out there.

TL;DR Alternative energy sources and space travel is not a high priority in a world where "world peace" is established, as they're both too busy with the Grimm, and effectively have no threats to speak off, nor any reason to go to space besides a few test flights.

Of course, all that changed when Beacon fell. But I don't see why that can become a reason for the search of alternate energy sources for space travel yet. Right now, all of Remnant is probably arming up instead in preparation for bullshit.