Kobol

somuj

Whats the story with this? After they left here and seeded the 12(13) colonies did they forget where they came from and degress technologicaly??

GSPfan

Well they didn't have faster than light travel, we know that, and who knows how long they spent in space. The details of Kobol are patchy tho. Its interesting reading about Kobol. I'd love to see a show made about Kobol.

And the whole Technology thing..... Imagine you and a group of random people were moved to another planet and told to live there for the rest of your lives. Even tho you are aware of technology, what can you actually create? A simple example, how would you make toilet paper? It would take centuries to get close to the level you were once at.

FreudianSlippers

GSPfan wrote: »

Well they didn't have faster than light travel, we know that, and who knows how long they spent in space. The details of Kobol are patchy tho. Its interesting reading about Kobol. I'd love to see a show made about Kobol.

And the whole Technology thing..... Imagine you and a group of random people were moved to another planet and told to live there for the rest of your lives. Even tho you are aware of technology, what can you actually create? A simple example, how would you make toilet paper? It would take centuries to get close to the level you were once at.

battlestar wiki says they spent 2000 years in space

Goodshape

Probably made up of kobol's brightest and best telephone sanitizers, hairdressers, and advertising account executives.

"you guys take this one.. We'll all follow... Shortly."

(Hitchhikers Guide joke )

noodler

GSPfan wrote: »

And the whole Technology thing..... Imagine you and a group of random people were moved to another planet and told to live there for the rest of your lives. Even tho you are aware of technology, what can you actually create? A simple example, how would you make toilet paper? It would take centuries to get close to the level you were once at.

Very well put and a strange question that I keep hearing.

1) You use the tech - you have no idea how to mass produce it (even if yopu had the industrial ability to)

2)Its tech that has been rotting for years

3) Its Tehcn you may need to dismantle when you arrive on your planet.

4) With such a small group of people I think it is eay to imagine how much of the knowledge they do have could be lost after the first or second generation.

Scráib

Not to mention that in BSG they only found Kobol accidentally, so obviously things had degenerated to a point where knowledge was lost, such as the location of the actual location of Kobol.

AdmiralRazor

The Powers That Be (i.e. Ron D. Moore) say that after landing on the Colonies, humanity entered a dark age where all high technology was lost and Kobol became nothing but a distant, slightly contradictory, memory.

mawk

day of the triffids had a quote about the survival of progress after losing most of a population. about how you need your children to do work for everything to survive but in doing so they cannot be educated

first generation; labourers. second; savages