On 9/11/2020 3:26 PM, xxxxxx@quibell.org.uk wrote:
> See that’s the rub. There are no “bottom-dwellers” on Vland. Everyone
> contributes to society. You have to have a job, and that job has to
> contribute to society. The tribe is not going to go to all the effort to
> produce edible food for you if you don’t contribute. Who is going to
> give the food from their child’s mouth to feed someone who drains
> resources without a very very good reason (sitting on your arse doing
> nothing isn’t a very very good reason). Everyone has their place, every
> job is essential, all contribute to society. Society is everything.
>
> President walks up to a cleaner in NASA and asks “What do you do”
> cleaner reply’s “I’m helping put a man on the moon”.
>
> In fact a person who specialises in cleaning on Vland is incredibly
> important, because if you get the wrong bits of Vland in your mouth …
> that will kill you.
>
> No the Vilani got off Vland and then realised there were resources just
> for the taking.
>
> And then they got out of the Vland system and realised that there was
> food you could eat that didn’t kill you and that you could Terraform
> planets much more easily than Vland itself (something that they had
> perfected for thousands of years on Vland itself (they Terraformed parts
> of Vland everyday just to stay alive)) to be able to produce food in
> excess, and sometimes you found a planet you could just pull fruit off
> the vegetation itself and eat it, or eat the vegetation itself, and they
> even found you could eat the animals.
>
> And then they created the largest empire chartered space has ever seen …

And then they got their teeth kicked in by a bunch of hungry upstarts /
Sollie-come-latelies / the OG flava. :)

j/k this was a great post, +1

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