Suisei no Gargantia

[Buffalobiian]

UTW-Vivid - Episode 03


Chamber rules. Spinning the pirates mercilessly in the air while chanting "Give up. Give up. Give up. Just Give up." made my day.

I can see Ledo's logic where he questions why it's okay to kill animals while it's not okay to kill humans. Gargantians are also dipshits for blaming Chamber. You asked for help, you got it. If anyone was to blame, it's Amy. She asked for help she didn't actually want.

Bellows reminds me of Yoko, so we need more of her.

Overall, great 3 episodes. The retro feel is like steampunk but not. I have to wonder at how they source all their metals. There must be one hell of a recycling plant on board since manufacturing from fresh ore seems highly improbable. The turnover must be pretty high given their maritime use.

Also, about the premises. If all the ice in the poles melted we'd still have some land left, right?

[Death13a]

Also, about the premises. If all the ice in the poles melted we'd still have some land left, right?

Assuming no other apocalyptic events happened like nuclear war for remaining of land, meteor bombardment, ice age, etc, or all of above. Those that escaped into space assumed that Earth was beyond recovery to point that they didn't bother to actually map their way out of their solar system so that someday they might attempt to recover it. What surprises me is that they managed to travel between stars almost instantaneous and they aren't able to terraform a planet, not to mention to find a livable one.

[Kraco]

What surprises me is that they managed to travel between stars almost instantaneous and they aren't able to terraform a planet, not to mention to find a livable one.

Did they actually say that, or could it be that they have lost all the promising planets they found to the aliens? Otherwise, in light of what we know now in RL and how sophisticated technology Ledo's people seem to possess, finding and terraforming suitable planets should be relatively easy. Although that would also depend on if they took anything with them from Earth. If they have got no Earth bacteria, algae, plants, and animals essential in terraforming, it could be much harder.

There should be plenty of land, especially mountains, still above the sealevel on Earth, but I guess they decided not to have any for the sake of the story. Maybe some huge water ice comet hit Earth and doubled the amount of water...

[Buffalobiian]

Assuming no other apocalyptic events happened like nuclear war for remaining of land, meteor bombardment, ice age, etc, or all of above. Those that escaped into space assumed that Earth was beyond recovery to point that they didn't bother to actually map their way out of their solar system so that someday they might attempt to recover it. What surprises me is that they managed to travel between stars almost instantaneous and they aren't able to terraform a planet, not to mention to find a livable one.

Places like Mt Everest and most "high" places probably aren't strategic enough to bomb the shit out of, so I wouldn't expect them to be blown to smithereens. It's all of your coastal cities these days.

As for the way back to the planet, it seems that they lost the records over the 1000s of years that mankind has left earth. If it was a desperate enough attempt to leave, space-mapping may not have been good enough back then.

Did they actually say that, or could it be that they have lost all the promising planets they found to the aliens? Otherwise, in light of what we know now in RL and how sophisticated technology Ledo's people seem to possess, finding and terraforming suitable planets should be relatively easy. Although that would also depend on if they took anything with them from Earth. If they have got no Earth bacteria, algae, plants, and animals essential in terraforming, it could be much harder.

From Ledo's reaction, it seemed that a planet with water and breathable air wasn't even considered a possibility. The lack of success from their pioneering efforts must have made them think that such a planet was an impossibility.