Its funny how this story tends to invert when the roles are reversed and we see it in a lot of sci-fi from Avatar to Word for World. I even have a world-building project where a human exploitation...
Its funny how this story tends to invert when the roles are reversed and we see it in a lot of sci-fi from Avatar to Word for World. I even have a world-building project where a human exploitation fleet is stranded on a desert planet. And the primitive native tribes use what tech they find to also take themselves beyond the point of extinction.
Then the hiding humans step in by covertly repairing the damage as best they can. But around this time, the fleet is able to re-establish contact with civilization. And this is where things get messy. Because you now have a planet in the midst of colony, salvage, IP, trade, licensing and a host of other disputes that could have arisen in the centuries since contact was lost. And of course, the most predatory entities would capitalize on that chaos, with the native population considered little more than pawns.
And just like that, the planet becomes just another rock, ripe for marerial exraction. One that's complete with a primitive workforce on site and an acclimated administration ready to go. And they waste no time getting to work. It's just a rapid transformation from tribal feudalisim, to apocalyptic world war, to corporate colonialism. This subjugation only further radicalizes the native species, driving many of them to even greater violence which is used to justify harsher controls and conditions only spiral
A core theme of this narrative is the sort of twisted ideals born from this sort of perversion of morality. Not just for the perpetrators, but also the victims and survivors. And the narrative I want to tell here follows a growing group of outcasts who find each other by falling out of these ideological extremes by imagining a better world.
Still debating the ultimate outcomes for this timeline. Because while this setting is a sound board for the many horrifying things that I see as part of human nature, I keep coming back to the characters that can't help but push back against the hopelessness of it all.
Its funny how this story tends to invert when the roles are reversed and we see it in a lot of sci-fi from Avatar to Word for World. I even have a world-building project where a human exploitation fleet is stranded on a desert planet. And the primitive native tribes use what tech they find to also take themselves beyond the point of extinction.
Then the hiding humans step in by covertly repairing the damage as best they can. But around this time, the fleet is able to re-establish contact with civilization. And this is where things get messy. Because you now have a planet in the midst of colony, salvage, IP, trade, licensing and a host of other disputes that could have arisen in the centuries since contact was lost. And of course, the most predatory entities would capitalize on that chaos, with the native population considered little more than pawns.
And just like that, the planet becomes just another rock, ripe for marerial exraction. One that's complete with a primitive workforce on site and an acclimated administration ready to go. And they waste no time getting to work. It's just a rapid transformation from tribal feudalisim, to apocalyptic world war, to corporate colonialism. This subjugation only further radicalizes the native species, driving many of them to even greater violence which is used to justify harsher controls and conditions only spiral
A core theme of this narrative is the sort of twisted ideals born from this sort of perversion of morality. Not just for the perpetrators, but also the victims and survivors. And the narrative I want to tell here follows a growing group of outcasts who find each other by falling out of these ideological extremes by imagining a better world.
Still debating the ultimate outcomes for this timeline. Because while this setting is a sound board for the many horrifying things that I see as part of human nature, I keep coming back to the characters that can't help but push back against the hopelessness of it all.