Basically, we're the ancient race that some younger expansionist race digs up and becomes in awe of the faster than light gateways that we constructed.
oh wow you're the first one to thnk of that holyshit
A. E. van Vogt did you one better: what if we're the ones who discovered time travel and caused the Big Bang, thereby creating the universe and ourselves?
We are Babylon 5's "the first ones"
Or Mass Effects, well, "progenitors"
or the ratakan in KOTOR.
as a side topic, ever notice that most sci-fi is canadian in origin? Bioware is canadian. BSG and the Stargate series have a strong canadian flavor.
cold temperatures outside and ugly women causes lots of imagination?
it's more about space being the final frontier I think. Canada is still a frontier country, largely. Also, Farscape was done in Australia and Australia as a whole seems to be where a lot of sci fi is shot.
The hope remains for an intelligent race more civilized, hospitable, and agreeable than our own.
The universe is in trouble if earth's humans are the progenitor race.
cold temperatures outside and ugly women causes lots of imagination?
It will end up being like Star Trek TNG's "The Chase," except that the message encoded in the genes of all life forms in the galaxy will turn out to be a Rickroll.
I hope not.
Our future is bleak and boring then. I want us to be the baby species of the universe, the ones who are a little late joining the party.
Because that means we'll probably get our asses kicked and we'll be better off for it.
Then again, we could be the galactic/universal badasses who are only so late to the party because we are so effective at bickering and fighting it out across massive wars that we stagnated ourselves.
What if we are the ones who are late joining the galactic arena, yet end up easily taking control of the empire over the span of a few generations?
I'd like to think we'll be the feared ones, due to our military strategic prowess... but again, we could be woefully at odds against advanced weaponry.
We are Babylon 5's "the first ones"
Or Mass Effects, well, "progenitors"
or the ratakan in KOTOR.
Basically, we're the ancient race that some younger expansionist race digs up and becomes in awe of the faster than light gateways that we constructed.
A. E. van Vogt did you one better: what if we're the ones who discovered time travel and caused the Big Bang, thereby creating the universe and ourselves?
Basically, we're the ancient race that some younger expansionist race digs up and becomes in awe of the faster than light gateways that we constructed.