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liesmyth · 11 months ago

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Rereading Tiptree is making me think about space exploration... I still maintain that the whole FTL trillionaire fleet carried a few thousand people at the most. And many of them didn't make it

Thinking about this...

I know that TLT seems to have a very high number of random planets that are suitable for human life compared to what we currently know about our universe + Tazmuir has been known to bend scientific details to suit her storytelling, and also this is a world where planets have souls so who cares about science anyway, but.

BUT. I still think that the FTL fleet was a last resort operation, the ships jumped blind with one (1) chance to settle without being able to count on the resources of a home base, and I think they were almost nearly wiped out.

#it was a SECRET operation and they needed the storage space for supplies #political leaders were left behind on earth! they kept the secret until the end! it wasn't a large scale operation AT ALL #tlt thoughts #FTL fleet #TM is not really writing scifi as much as she's writing character driven horror BUT sometimes scifi elements play a role #and I wonder if we'll ever find out how the FTL settlements fared #IMO The only reason why there are millions (if not billions) of their descendants right now #it's because thousands of years have passed — if not longer #who knows how long it really passed on earth in between the ending of NtN and the Resurrection #TazMuir said that NtN takes place over a HUNDRED THOUSAND years #so who knows #tlt

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