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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Switchblade" data-source="post: 3939088" data-attributes="member: 56246">Firstly you are assuming every university is in a highly populated area - they aren't (most, yes, all no).Two, you are expecting everyone with a scientific or technical background to be in the cities.  Rather a lot of engineering firms and defence research offices seem to be in small villages strangely enough.Thirdly, doing something once is difficult, repeating it is not.  For example: the steam engine, key to the industrial revolution.  To think that up took a genius.  However the prinicple is really simple and once someone knows it this could be recreated from scratch from trial and error simply because you know it should work so the odd setback wouldn't cause someone to give up because it is percieved as imposible. Even if all books were destroyed we wouldn't have to wait thousands of years to regain our tech from scratch.  It is common knowlege of the basic prinicples of making iron into steal, steam engines and crude internal combustion engines.  Within a generation or two we would still be back to the early 20th century technology.  The more advanced stuff and medical knowlege may take longer to recover but give it 200 years and there you are.If you have a ship full of telepathic mindflayers over a populace of non - psi humans though... <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious    :]" data-shortname=":]" /> Picture this, a concerted magically boosted mindblast disigned to wipe the memories blank of the planet, leaving drooling idiots.  An unexpected backlash stikes the mindflayers and they do not survive such an effort unscathed, preventing their dominance of the unresisting planet below.With people reduced to near animalisic intelect civilisation collapses and there is no one to pass on an oral knowlege to the next generation, who have to develop almost from scratch.</blockquote>

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