Quote:Making a big difference. I'm uncertain about this -- my biology classes are more than a quarter-century behind me -- but I have a feeling that any population of creatures evolved enough that it'll become human "just" two to five million years later will be seriously hurt by an extinction event -- the more complex the biological structure, the more aspects of their existence that can go wrong.
Humans are either arriving or evolving in the immediate wake of it.
And "arriving"? Then we have the question of whether there's any remnant of the means of arrival -- starship/shuttlecraft (a la Pern), space-time gate (Cherryh's Morgaine series), magic, etc. Potential for military use -- even if only as a bluff or psychological advantage? If they arrived two to five million years ago, "in the immediate wake" of the big impact, a purely technological means of transport is probably long eroded away, but how has all that time evolved the people since they got here? If the means was technological, how did they lose that knowledge and backslide to muscle power?
Sorry, I'm raising questions without proposing solutions.
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Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.