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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HatWearingFool" data-source="post: 4149568" data-attributes="member: 54658">Well there is a theory (can't remember it's name off-hand) that the reason we haven't me other intelligent life with interstellar travel capability is simply that 99.9% of civilizations destroy themselves at a certain level of technological development (that occurs before the advent of interstellar travel). Ie. most civilizations wipe themselves out after developing nuclear power or giant particle colliders or nano-technology. This easily transfers over to a reality that replaces technology with magic.A sci-fi book that I read a while ago involved a giant cloud that sat in deep space. Basically the cloud sat in stasis until it detected non-natural emissions (radio, energy, whatnot). It then activated and moved towards the source eventually engulfing and destroying it. At the end of the book you find out that the cloud is one of many "magnetic mines" created by an ancient star-faring civilization that just dropped them throughout their travels so that every other civilization was wiped out before it could become a threat. This is also easily mapped into a fantasy reality. Some ancient race/civilization created a magically monster/threat (perhaps the turrasque) that sits in stasis until some condition is met and it is activated and sent out to destroy it. It could even be something less obvious like an illusion of a higher power that slowly leads a civilization to it's doom.Thanks for this thread it has sparked some great ideas for me.</blockquote>

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