Black Dragon Wrote: The quarantine didn't just not fix things, it made them worse and locked out anyone that would have come and fixed it. They made the mess, refused to fix it, and then locked out anyone who might do so and left us to rot. That's pretty heavy-handed and not very loving. The whole situation benefitted the STS side's agenda. They should have removed the elite and THEN put up a quarantine for a while, and like you said, let us start over on neutral ground. It's not even such a good opportunity to come polarize, because just like too little adversity, too much and there's less opportunity for growth, hence the small and relatively unsuccessful harvests. The way I see it, their decisions were not indicative of either love or wisdom.
The q was to stop orion from setting up shop else where. Direct landings are not permitted. Orion has dead man trigger bombs implanted into nearly all humans. These will disintegrate soul memory and wipe out all xp, reset to 0.
Would you land in a dictatorship if everyone there were rigged with suicide bpmbs?
As for being abandoned by higher density civs.... you were not. It is .... complicated. Certain things are on a need to know basis. They are secretively incarnated to help disarm the bombs and doom triggers. Esp the keepers. They are source s secret divine weapons.