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2300 AD predicts the near future.

Started by BronzeDragon, February 22, 2021, 04:38:40 PM

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Marchand

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March 25, 2021, 06:17:37 AM
Quote from: Hixanthrope on March 24, 2021, 07:20:36 PM
The Kafers and their satraps the Ylli from 2300AD are a great representation of alien psychology.

Hell to the yeah. The aliens in 2300AD are excellent - playable/relatable, but not just people in costumes, like Klingons or whatever. They meet the old SF definition of an interesting alien - something that thinks as well as a man, but differently.

The only issue is there are too many of them near Earth at a similar stage of tech to us to be believable, but never mind.

The Sung were sadly underdeveloped in the official materials - they were the ones who believed it was only right and proper for more technologically advanced societies to conquer the less advanced, but that the conquerors then had an obligation to transfer tech to level up the conquered.

They couldn't see why it was a problem that after they conquered another less advanced species, the Xiang, the Xiang didn't seem to want levelled up, and just kept slaving away in the mines or whatever. Not our fault right?

At the time the game was set, they were starting to think it was a problem that after humanity defeated them to free the Xiang, the humans didn't then pony up their FTL tech.
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