The Maghiz

[rancke]

Peter,

Growing food is one thing.

Distributing food is something else entirely.

With the collapse of Darrian's TL13(1) transportation network and the complete lack of any "leftover" transportation capabilities beyond TL4, you can neither move the food to the survivors or the survivors to the food.

When neither the mountain or Muhammad can visit the other, the feces definitely hits the rotary ventilation device.

Yes indeed. Which means that if it is impossible to get food, everyone dies. If food is hard to get, some people die, and the rest are now able to get food. This happens within a few months or years after the Maghiz. After that, the recovery may take a long time, but people won't be dying in droves -- there won't be any droves.

I'd like to point out that we have very little information about how long it took the people on Darrian to recover, except that they hadn't reached TL9 in -275. For all we know, they could have been TL4 and only recovered over the next couple of centuries with plenty of help from Mire.

1 - I keep mentioning TL13 because, IIRC, that was the general maximum TL of the Rule of Man and thus the general maximum TL that the Itzin Fleet would have brought to Darrian. Darrian most certainly did advance beyond TL13, but I believe TL13 was the most widespread high-tech level in use, albeit used rather "thinly".

The Rule of Man were generally TL12. There may or may not have been some TL13 technologies around.


Hans

 

[kafka47]

I wonder if the [FONT=arial,helvetica]Maghiz was all that it was cracked up to be? Killing off much of the biosphere and an EMP knocking out everything sounds like the ultimate killing machine. Perhaps, there is another reason for [/FONT][FONT=arial,helvetica]the Maghiz? Perhaps, they suffered nuclear bombardment from a threat yet unknown and the [/FONT][FONT=arial,helvetica]Maghiz was just a cover story.

I was thinking the Zhodani might be up to the bombing part and it would explain their silence in the aftermath.
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[DonM]

Loren Wiseman once remarked that "DGP never quit their day jobs" and the account of the Maghiz written up in AM:8 is further proof of that.

Actually, a quick perusal of the credits in AM8 does not show any DGP personnel involved in the project.