Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-25479664-20161122145839/@comment-30096930-20161122232952

Cyber security/ Encryption... if they travel through years or centuries of spaceflight, our Species likely won't be bringing books... so you have all of human knowledge on a single server...

Now you land on a planet without your technology or a way to synthesize your computers, or your newly created tech isn't recognized by your older operating systems encryption...

How long do you think society can protect their knowledge of the past while fighting a war using skills they haven't used for generations?

How many modern teenagers do you know with the capabilities to build a modern computer from unrelated scraps, let alone the base component minerals?

Just a single generation relying on long unused oral traditions would relegate centuries to myth, in 1-2 more most attempts to restore the server would likely stop, while once the first generation to restore it succeeds the human race would likely long have forgotten their encryption methods... even assuming none were used, it seems unlikely the old computers would be able to recognize whatever the new ones are doing.

In any work of fiction when has a race (of any kind) that has traveled through space and reached another planet not been able to use their technology? Aside from crash landings from an emergency. I mean we use our tech on the moon and Mars. Also if they were smart enough to create space travel over vast expanses of space it's pretty certain there were also arrogant enough to create advanced weapons along with it. You don't go somewhere to colonize without being able to protect yourself.

Let's say they were a couple generations deep since launching their space craft, I find it hard to believe that they wouldn't have books or written material of any kind. Sure everything would be on their computers but you always have a contingency when things go wrong.