Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4010415-20140802105040/@comment-24891101-20140816033225

True. I've not seen it that often, but that's down to my media preferences. Mostly, I have it hovering in the wings as an explanation for how early man was not utterly extinguished by entities that actively seek their destruction, and with whom there can be no quarter. Early hominins, on Earth, only had to deal with natural predators, against whom they could retreat to the trees, and eventually repel with fire. If the usage of Dust was essentially the fire and weapons of early man on Remnant, then it had to occur in easily accessable pockets, near the surface. And a host of other implications. Obvious parallels to conquering the natural world, but given that the natural world is still quite capable of fighting back against people with tech levels far beyond our own, and humans have not completely subjugated the world, then the prospect for early man, developing naturally, are grim. Another option is the religious one, again, depending on the activity of the metaphysics. And I'd also like to trust the prologue.