29.6.04
Mathematics is a weapon
Mathematics is one of humanity's greatest weapons in wars against non-Humans. It allows for planning much more precise and accurate than what pre-cognition and telepathy can afford; it allows for more widespread and accessible communication; it allows for charting the future paths of projectiles and bodies; it allows for statistical analysis and proper logistics.
The mental powers of non-Humans give them a heavy weight in the spiritual world, and it's often easy for them to scry what the other is doing, so military surprises are rare outside of humanity. Mathematics renders null in the spiritual world, and plans concocted on calculations register as background noise. Human activity after the barrier drops shocks and surprises the rest of the universal community.
The alien community reacts in as many ways as the humans due. There are plenty willing to buy or steal the technology, and plenty of humans willing to sell. There are humans who want to horde technology for their protection and human domination, and there are aliens who think it a heresy to be shunned or even abolished. There are those people who don't even worry about the transfer, as long as it happens after humanity has established itself as a dominant species - unfortunately, these excite the tendencies of the alien jihadists, who band together for war on Coera.
There are no small few, though, that see humanity as a promised Messiah, and maths as the magic that will deliver them and disrupt the established castes - they secretly root for humanity while suffering the subjegation of the supremal races.
The mental powers of non-Humans give them a heavy weight in the spiritual world, and it's often easy for them to scry what the other is doing, so military surprises are rare outside of humanity. Mathematics renders null in the spiritual world, and plans concocted on calculations register as background noise. Human activity after the barrier drops shocks and surprises the rest of the universal community.
The alien community reacts in as many ways as the humans due. There are plenty willing to buy or steal the technology, and plenty of humans willing to sell. There are humans who want to horde technology for their protection and human domination, and there are aliens who think it a heresy to be shunned or even abolished. There are those people who don't even worry about the transfer, as long as it happens after humanity has established itself as a dominant species - unfortunately, these excite the tendencies of the alien jihadists, who band together for war on Coera.
There are no small few, though, that see humanity as a promised Messiah, and maths as the magic that will deliver them and disrupt the established castes - they secretly root for humanity while suffering the subjegation of the supremal races.
// posted by Wray Davis @ 5:36 PM 
