This made me wonder what if: An advanced civilization solved interstellar travel, but their own civilization was corrupt & ossified enough that they couldn't advance their tech much past ours, except in that respect?
Space Romans on the terminal slide side of the empire...?
Trying to enslave more races to press gang them to fight off the space barbarians at their borders?
Personally I think it's more interesting if the invasion is the way Earth discovers the distances between stars aren't as vast as they assumed (b/c Einstein was full of shit, and using redshift to interpret distance is more like redshit - all true facts, check out www.thunderbolts.info )
It hasn't come up yet, but the cosmology of this project is decidedly pre-modern. The cosmos is geocentric and bounded by a shell of frozen space-time, a 'crystal sphere' if you like. Only the local cluster of galaxies exist, the 'far stars' are reflections and reflections of reflections off the interior of the sphere. Earthmen mostly haven't noticed as such, because they've forgotten so much and haven't asked the right questions. But the Elves will be mystified and awed when they figure out these Dirtmen are from center, home of the Hidden King.
Closer than the history we're taught, heheh
This made me wonder what if: An advanced civilization solved interstellar travel, but their own civilization was corrupt & ossified enough that they couldn't advance their tech much past ours, except in that respect?
Romans with Stargates?
Space Romans on the terminal slide side of the empire...?
Trying to enslave more races to press gang them to fight off the space barbarians at their borders?
Personally I think it's more interesting if the invasion is the way Earth discovers the distances between stars aren't as vast as they assumed (b/c Einstein was full of shit, and using redshift to interpret distance is more like redshit - all true facts, check out www.thunderbolts.info )
It hasn't come up yet, but the cosmology of this project is decidedly pre-modern. The cosmos is geocentric and bounded by a shell of frozen space-time, a 'crystal sphere' if you like. Only the local cluster of galaxies exist, the 'far stars' are reflections and reflections of reflections off the interior of the sphere. Earthmen mostly haven't noticed as such, because they've forgotten so much and haven't asked the right questions. But the Elves will be mystified and awed when they figure out these Dirtmen are from center, home of the Hidden King.