The Road Not Taken

Gravity manipulation, the secret for FTL travel, is relatively trivial, and most civilizations develop it before the industrial revolution. When aliens arrive on Earth in a pitch-covered wooden ship with muskets, they are suprised to find the advanced weaponry on a planet without FTL travel.

Motifs

• Impossible Drive

  The gravity drives used by the Roxolani contrast the low technology of the rest of their society.