Small genetic pool.
Hostile environment.
Natural selection.
Intense radiation.
Mutations.
High birth rate.
Many deaths.
No intelligent competitors.
Rapid evolution.
Exploding population.
Mining and forging.
Respect for learning.
Wars.
A common tradition.
Rediscovered scientific method.
Rapid progress.
Knowledge of what had been possible.
Ancient texts.
The ancestral ship.
Moon rockets.
A first hyperdrive craft.
The respect for learning is described as practical but would also have been inherited from Aeneas which had begun as a scientific base.
4 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
I dunno, I would have expected all memory or knowledge of Aeneas to soon have been lost on Kirkasant. A hard struggle for bare survival would have driven everything else out of mind.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
Right.
Paul.
But the respect for learning inherited from Aeneas, would have helped survival & so been preserved even if most other aspects of Aenean culture got lost.
Coming from a somewhat marginal place for living (Aeneas) would have helped them to survive on another somewhat marginal place for living (Kirkasant).
The similarities of the two worlds may have made Anderson like the idea that the Kirkasanters were descended from Aeneans.
Parallels with Troy->Rome make it attractive too.
Kaor, Jim!
Good points! And Kirkasant was a good bit even more marginal a planet for humans to settle on than Aeneas.
Yes, it was scholarly minded Classicists who first settled Aeneas.
Ad astra! Sean
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