it's not precisely that they never come up with anything new, it's just that it never goes anywhere. Which does beg the question, what's different about the Vallista house?
Yeah, I'm really curious about this, too, and hope we'll get an explanation!
Because, OK, cyclical military technology or writing systems that change but don't drive large-scale change elsewhere, I can believe that's not material change. But teleportation for sure, and I think also revivification, is something they come up with over the course of their history, and those seem like pretty major developments with far-reaching consequences!
I was going to say that it ought to be comparable to time-travel, but on the other hand, hm. Teleportation allows you to do FASTER something that's possible without violating physics, and maybe revivification is sufficiently comparable to reincarnation that it's not a qualitatively NEW thing, either. But time-travel allows for something that's not possible with normal physics at all and that could be the difference? Hm!
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Yeah, I'm really curious about this, too, and hope we'll get an explanation!
Because, OK, cyclical military technology or writing systems that change but don't drive large-scale change elsewhere, I can believe that's not material change. But teleportation for sure, and I think also revivification, is something they come up with over the course of their history, and those seem like pretty major developments with far-reaching consequences!
I was going to say that it ought to be comparable to time-travel, but on the other hand, hm. Teleportation allows you to do FASTER something that's possible without violating physics, and maybe revivification is sufficiently comparable to reincarnation that it's not a qualitatively NEW thing, either. But time-travel allows for something that's not possible with normal physics at all and that could be the difference? Hm!