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To answer the second question, so that I can be the bad guys from the end of that Cixin Liu trilogy. Exponential growth is infinite and resources are not, so t

To answer the second question, so that I can be the bad guys from the end of that Cixin Liu trilogy. Exponential growth is infinite and resources are not, so take any available advantage. Short answer to the first, because the speed of light is the top speed at which information can propagate in the Universe.

xupybd 5y ago
Thank you another book/trilogy to add to the reading list.
- Elora 5y ago
  I suggest you also add The Wandering Earth by the same author to your list, which is a collection eleven of his short fiction stories. I'd even go as far as say it's better to read it first before the trilogy.
- bashinator 5y ago
  You’re welcome! Incidentally, there’s no FTL in the story.
imtringued 5y ago
I don't think a gold standard is a viable pyramid scheme for a multiplanetary species. There's too much of it in space. You need something that is rare even after traveling for hundreds of years. A lot of wars were simply fought over resources. It's even better if your society uses the resource as money. The only thing I can imagine is using habitable planets as currency, this would require your galactic empire to have a dozen planets though because a single planet does not make a currency and the debt trap of borrowing 1 planet at 3% interest would fall apart because colonizing the next planet may take too long to pay off the interest. I.e. you need some planets to lose before you take that loan. Edit: Great filter hypothesis to explain Fermis paradox. The pyramid scheme needed to enslave the galaxy is also powerful enough to destroy a planet before it develops space faring technology.
- me_me_me 5y ago
  Just to point out obvious, you are applying a human logic to an theoretical alien species of theoretically any type of behaviour/value/technological/political angle. Who knows what they are like and what they value.

xupybd 5y ago

Thank you another book/trilogy to add to the reading list.

Elora 5y ago
I suggest you also add The Wandering Earth by the same author to your list, which is a collection eleven of his short fiction stories. I'd even go as far as say it's better to read it first before the trilogy.
bashinator 5y ago
You’re welcome! Incidentally, there’s no FTL in the story.

imtringued 5y ago

I don't think a gold standard is a viable pyramid scheme for a multiplanetary species. There's too much of it in space. You need something that is rare even after traveling for hundreds of years. A lot of wars were simply fought over resources. It's even better if your society uses the resource as money. The only thing I can imagine is using habitable planets as currency, this would require your galactic empire to have a dozen planets though because a single planet does not make a currency and the debt trap of borrowing 1 planet at 3% interest would fall apart because colonizing the next planet may take too long to pay off the interest. I.e. you need some planets to lose before you take that loan. Edit: Great filter hypothesis to explain Fermis paradox. The pyramid scheme needed to enslave the galaxy is also powerful enough to destroy a planet before it develops space faring technology.

me_me_me 5y ago
Just to point out obvious, you are applying a human logic to an theoretical alien species of theoretically any type of behaviour/value/technological/political angle. Who knows what they are like and what they value.