Quote:I was going to say Tasmanian devils... but you took one of my points. Some problem will include knowing where most of the really good catches of resources are. A few oil/natural gas sea born rigs will take care of your major power needs. They know that silicon valley is full of sand useful for microchips and that taking over most of the world is going to be far too much effort. Taking over Australia on the other hand... thats a good idea. lots of land. Almost no people. Sunny enough for solar power...
The well can also transport information, both digital and DNA. How much is a live dodo worth?
Also, documentaries. Lots and lots of opportunity to make good documentaries on sights destroyed in modern wars and by modern (often backwards at the same time) regimes.
Anyway, after the first wave 'What happened?'s and such and people take stock your going to get to the social order thing. First off, their major industry/mechanized military has a female CEO (with female bodyguards)... so a major force is going to be that women aren't going to be made second class citizens. This is a truely Earth shaking idea for the time. Ranma may be elected a rep as a political move as he is also a she physically and therefore the ideal example of how the sex of a person is rather irrelevant to ability.
Next, the whole idea on if they should have an expansive military empire or not. With such power in the industry sector there is going to be first get a resource base. Wall the city (with stone and metal or with troops) for defense. Get a path to the ocean and make a port. They'll need to fish before they get a rice farm going or whatever. A few villages that make rice should pop up from people moving near the area where they kill the demons and pick on the peons far less.
Tatewaki may end up in a movement to start a samurai regime so will those wanting to wipe out the U.S. before it exists. Small things like picking certain streambeds clean of gold in California (no Gold Rush populating the west) and gifting the short stalk grains (while the rest of Europe ate the viable in the mini-iceage potato the French were already French. Never mind that there was a solution to the famine on their long stock grains The king should change the global weather, now they were not going to adapt adapting is for other people. (Im not bashing here, the refused the potato and blamed the king the bread riots that led to the French Revolution are largely, because the French wouldnt allow cultural contamination like logic to bug the.)
Actually solving problems does prevent major changes in history such as the Japanese having a typist that could actually type, say more than two words a minute, Pearl Harbor wouldnt have been a sneak attack. They would have got to officially declare war before attacking which they feel would have prevented them from being nuked little things like genocidal rampages through China and elsewhere and torturing starving prisoners to death for entertainment escape their minds. Granted that is partially true but they also ignore a ground battle would have killed off most of the Japanese because they wouldnt have surrendered if the Emperor didnt go over the militaries head and surrender.
Anyway, I wonder how much time Kagome will have to run around for a while... most of the people capable of dealing with the now forest area of Nerima more violent residents are elsewhere. So Kagome and Inuyasha are probably going to end up dealing with it. Who is else left to do it? There is evidence that was why the government half ignored the mess of Nerima in the Ranma 1/2 series... when something bizarre showed up it was time to hire the Nermites.
The Nermites won't even hear of the well unless say... Kagome shows up to get Sango medical attention. First time some randomite discovers that a place where lethal diseases and slow death mortal wounds can be healed word will get around.