11-26-2016, 12:16 PM
(11-23-2016, 03:38 PM)stevebowers Wrote: The Sundering.
If the Technocalypse doesn't get you, the Last War might. Then you have to cope with the crowding of the Warrens or some other barely suitable habitat, with all the social problems they bring. Stir-crazy refugees might kill you for no rational reason, or for food, or water, or air.
But there is a chance - a very slim chance- that you might be among the lucky ones who escape Solsys altogether an travel to a distant star, in a cramped, inadequate starship using intrinsically dangerous cryogenic technology. Once you get there you will be faced with a set of inhospitable, uninhabitable planets with nothing to breathe but manufactured air - but you will be free.
It sounds like there would be a slim chance of escaping the nightmare. What is it about the information age that would make Sundering your preferred age? Do you believe it will be or was worse in the information age than the Sundering?