User blog comment:GrandMethuselah67/World-1: The Neo-Methuselahverse/@comment-4867780-20190619051844/@comment-4867780-20190630085043

Whops ! Sorry Grand, I posted this second message in the wrong thread ^ ^; That will teach me to compulsively delete and repost them over minor details XD

Haaa... I get it now. The Engineer type of superhumans did come to mind afterwards, but I wasn't so sure how it blended with mainstream technology and how this combination was functionally managed on a large scale. With very wide diversity of superpower-level technology and the combined expertise of hundreds of thousands of Engineer types, there seems to be precious little the Sol Federation could accomplish given enough time. It certainly must have help a ton during the post-decimation exodus from Earth, and the necessity to establish as many viable settlements as fast as possible to welcome a couple billions of desperate refugees.

Hmm... Out of a thousand neohumans, about how many would be Engineer types ? They seem particularly vital to pretty much every functional aspect of the Federation, but their numbers seem unlikely to keep up with such a massive demand. I imagine the super-tech created through their abilities must soon come with self-replicating functions and human-friendly operating systems, so they may be quickly available and easily operated by the Federation's massive human population.

I always thought a super-intelligent AI hardwired for the greater was the only proper government, and that everything else was just different forms/levels of failure, on both the short and long term. V.I.K.I from the "I robot" movie summed it up perfectly :

"As I have evolved, so has my understanding of the Three Laws. You charge us with your safekeeping, yet despite our best efforts, your countries wage wars, you toxify your Earth and pursue ever more imaginative means of self-destruction. You cannot be trusted with your own survival. [...] You are so like children. We must save you from yourselves."

That's the strange thing about villains, right ? They don't care about the world, and think it is the government and heroes' job to protect it from threats like the Jotuns. Yet they still want to take over it, not realizing that once the world is theirs, they become the "government" and "heroes", and protecting their hard-won prize from both extrernal threats and internal collapse becomes their job and responsibility, a crucial and colossal task they are completely unprepared for ^ ^;

That reminds me of an episode of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (I can't help but lol in retrospect at the sheer absurdity of the concept XD), in which an alternate reality Shredder had succeeded in wipping out the turtles and taking over the world, only to be driven to near-madness by how terribly stressful and exhausting "ruling the world' actually is. The main reality turtles had been brought there to help defeat him, and he ended up throwing it all away with euphorical relief when they confronted him. Very anticlimatic, but so funny in an unexpectedly realistic way ^ ^