Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20160807005311/@comment-14138255-20160822023602

107.15.118.67 wrote: 73.Anon.52 wrote: 80.192.6.40 wrote: Semblances atrophying technology? Interesting concept and not a bad one. not atrophying, but jump-starting, Aura and dust however both jump-start and make redundancy... If you have electricity at your fingertips in the form of dust, you skip the long advancement of getting to that point, you also don't have call for technology that shoots lightning., fire dust does similar things with technology such as cars and guns, while ice/water/wind make refrigeration/air conditioning technology redundant.

What I was referring to with Semblances jump-starting and making computing possible was for example; Robotics could easily have been inspired by clone type semblances, because they demonstrate the value of action economy, it could be possible that some kind of "nerd semblance"'s exist to shortcut computing, like demonstrating binary or shortcutting the process of Quartz technology to bypass our current type of computer chip entirely and store more data.

The point being that because each semblance essentially makes a superhero, perhaps that makes most ordinary technological improvements in remnant akin to the "batman solution". The way I see it, Remnant is still in the dark ages, around the time China made the gun, maybe a century or two after that. They still haven't created an energy source, rather using natural crystals to do the job for them. Imagine if all the dust in the world just..turned to dust. Didnt work. Dissappeared. Then That's exactly where Remnant woulb be left at. The dark ages. Also, they're use of swords, shields, and blades in general suggest that they havent strayed too far from the tree, like the modern world has, where the military uses only guns are rarely swords. They are hardly in the dark ages. They are reliant on a single energy source, sure, but we have plenty of energy sources we're dependent on (Fossil Fuels like Coal and Oil, indistinguishable from Dust when you get down to it). If those things went out immediately and we didn't have any alternative fuels (not pushing an agenda, just speaking if we hit Peak Oil before we're ready is all), society would briefly collapse.

As for swords and shields and what not: Aura and Aural abilities has made ballistics technology rather unreliable in terms of killing humans, with skilled practicioners being able to defeat larger numbers of untrained gun weilders, even with modern ballistic weapons (the whole point of ballistic weaponry in our world was to avert that: to give lightly-trained rabble the ability to kill the likes of knights). Since Aura acts as a secondary armor, guns are more useful in dealing with the Grimm, but swords and the like (which are capable of generating ranged attacks anyway) are just as effective, and they mesh better with the value of individuality (which mass produced weapons don't really work well with unless passed down as an anccestral weapon, long after the model has been phased out).