The Dangers Of Brahmard Nuclear Fusion

"Progress."

With nuclear fusion, the Brahmards would have been able to manufacture endless war materials and thus to displace the Maurai as the leading world power. If the Maurai had competed militarily using the same technology, then this would moved the world toward a Second War of Judgment. Even if the Maurai had not tried to develop nuclear power, others would have done so. Also, the missionary Brahmards would have tried to convert everyone else to their industrial-urban ideal whereas the Maurai have learned to value and protect cultural and technological diversity. A Maurai cites four historical examples of creative cultural interaction:

Egypt and Crete in the Eighteenth Dynasty;

Phoenicia, Persia and Greece in the classical period;

Nippon and Sara in the Nara period;

the current period when Maurai, Mericans, Okkaidans and Sberayks find different solutions to common problems.

OK. This is one reason why Poul Anderson could write historical fiction and future histories and I can't.