Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-25857155-20150116082950/@comment-26018514-20150219053027

^my point shadow was that they could have already been down to that kind of hard-drive tech, you don't necessarily pack a library of books onto a ship travelling galaxies with space at a premium... and after the loss of the tech, mass extinction from grim... then about a generation later, some survivors find dust... then in that generation or the next they discover Aura, with those kind of advances coupled with the relatively useless information of "where are we from?"(especially as with my theory they are "post earth", no-one home to phone) you could easily see everyone with that knowledge dying off.

I would suspect their current tech is at least partly based on the old stuff they found(which explains the mishmash of futuristic and retro), and further that some of their "most talented" inventors could know the truth and just choose to not tell the masses to keep the option of leaving remnant off the table... as well as the ability to profit off what essentially should be free "public domain" tech.

and this is not the theory I am necessarily going with, just one of them I consider possible.