Threepony Wrote:Well, I'm planning on messing with this point and upsetting the status quo after a fashion. I need to work on it today after I get my normal ponyfic done to get started on a revised opening (wasn't liking where the first was going), but yeah... the guy isn't going to like most of fenspace just leaving earth and the danes to their own business when they've got the tech to help improve lives all over the place, or barring that offer better economic opportunities to convince a pretty massive swell of danes from all over (including third world/undeveloped countries) to immigrate Up. Maybe pushing the population up to 15 to 20 million by 2021, with trying to make an immigration wave self-sustaining after that.I'm being a bit pessimistic about it, but the Thing With Earth is the central paradox of Fenspace, really--how to space when nobody wants to space, but then how to space when everybody wants to space? Whenever the question of getting Earth more involved pops up, and it does once or twice a year depending, we can build background on it but after it reaches a certain threshold somebody will always start throwing in "(insert country here) starts rubbing its dick over everything, isn't that (great/horrible)" bits and well, this is why we can't have nice things, y'know?
I dunno, at some point we'll square the circle, it'd certainly be nice to work on buying Earth into the setting more that didn't end with "and then the 'Danelaw took over." Maybe ponies will show us the way.
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