Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-25479664-20160418125948/@comment-7622429-20160419223947

Well, I brought it up because the situation its universe is facing is almost exactly the same as Remnant in a theoretical "Dust go bye-bye" scenario. Although, unlike Remnant, Imulsion works in space and they used to have working satellites......... that were used for doomsday lasers.

This is actually a bit of a niche genre in science fiction, whereby entire civilizations have arisen around a single substance, depending on it like humans do on water and air. Often times, these substances are a miracle material that propels scientific progress like a rocket, but in turn leaves other kinds of technologies behind in the dust (no pun intended).

The civilization grows complacent with its usage, and in situations where something goes wrong with it at large, sh*t goes down because dependency is a two-way streak of fortune and terrible foresight.