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driftfleet2016-03-06 06:38 pm
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Who: Crew and visitors for the Starstruck!
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Action: The SS Starstruck
When: March! And, y'know, until the next mingle too.
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Broadcast: None!
Action: The SS Starstruck
When: March! And, y'know, until the next mingle too.
[EVERYONE GET IN HERE AND MINGLE AND STUFF OKAY.]

OTA! kitchen mostly because well
I don't suppose there are any actual books around? [ This is mostly a rhetorical question that he doesn't expect an answer to - at least, not a satisfactory one. ]
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Oh. Um. ... Do those still exist?
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[ HOW CAN BOOKS NO LONGER EXIST? ]
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I mean, except in like-- museums and holos and stuff.
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Datapads...?
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Anyway, why stop using books? What was wrong with them in the first place?
[ Help a poor medieval boy out, Ahsoka. ]
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[ Was that even the common speech? ]
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[Okay. Smaller words then.]
Let me rephrase. Books are made out of paper, right? And paper comes from trees. And trees come from planets. And most forested planets need trees for life there to survive.
So when the population on your planet is small and you haven't gotten off-world yet, cutting down a few trees for a few books isn't much of a problem. But what do you think happens when the population of your planet is hundreds of billions, and you're part of an inter-galactic network of planets that are also home to similar population numbers.
Either you have a situation where it's impossible for books to be generally accessible to everyone, or you cut down trees faster than you can regrow them. Some planet, somewhere, is going to suffer for it.
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I suppose that makes sense. But that assumes you have the ability to use something else, I guess. In my world, we don't. We have to write on - cloth, or paper, or maybe chisel it in stone in a pinch.
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Right. And that's probably fine for you guys. For now, anyway.
Historical research tells us that most pre-tech civilizations mostly survived in balance with their planet's ecosystem without doing too much damage because any time the population got too big, something would happen to reduce the population back down to manageable numbers. Usually plague or famine.
Almost universally, when civilizations find ways to beat those things, populations soar dramatically. Which means so does the demand for resources. And if the demand outstrips the rate of renewal...
[Ahsoka leaves it hanging. She's sure Alistair can follow the thought along to the logical conclusion.]
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[ Ahsoka plz. ]
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Curing disease is fine. Not making sure that alternate resources are developed before population growth outstrips your natural planetary resources is the problem.
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Anyway, it can't hurt anyone if you start working on it early.
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[ He says that thoughtfully. He might act like he's dumb as a pile of bricks, but he's not, and he's keenly aware of the fact that when - if - he ever gets home, he'll have a country to run. And while he may not think much of himself or his own abilities, he's going to do the best he can. Ahsoka has, all unknowingly, given him quite a lot to think about. ]
I might have to start keeping notes on some of this stuff.
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i'm sorry this is sO OLD
No worries!
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