BSG fic: Settlement (R)
Fic OF DOOM is done. In addition to all the warnings below, I should also mention that apparently I can't resist fic as meta, either.
( a quick thought about the show finale )
( a quick thought about the show finale )
Subsistence-level living requires game to hunt and food to gather. No one area can support a really large group if they're forced to live off the land and don't have crops to plant.
But the thing is they didn't have to get rid of technology or stop at least trying to retain civilization. They could have the ships, the resources, the medicine, all of their shared skills and knowledge. Heck, they could have still had tent schools. Where was the paper mill on New Caprica? They could have tried do live how they did on New Caprica, minus the Cylon strife. How long it would have lasted? I don't know. Also, about crops, yeah, I don't know. I actually do not think these people would survive on Earth II at all, actually. Sorry, Laine! One bad winter or illness and it's over. I think people's strength is in numbers and helping each other. Prehistoric people had evolution and perhaps skills these people didn't.
That's why I like this story. Because it's hard. And they are trying. But it didn't have to be quite this hard. They chose that. We didn't see the choice (curses!) but it was said they agreed to this life.
I'm not really blaming Lee. He's one man. I expected a speech in a different direction but maybe he got tired. I don't know. But all of the colonists and 268s agreed to this too. I don't know if the laws of civilizations can be remembered or for how long. In a few generations I think it will be lost. I just thought they would have fought harder to hold on to it. It was a choice. That may not have worked either but I really thought they'd fight for that.
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