Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-25479664-20161122145839/@comment-4948848-20161123034656

Atebox wrote: 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.

Not just a couple of generations try thinking of maintaining high technology with a limited population over several centuries.



The real question is can you maintain, repair, and replace your technological items? Think of how only a relative few facilities in the world manufacture computer core processors. What about the equipment used to manufacture those processors. What about the  resources that go in to making all of the above?

