Quote Originally Posted by Death13a View Post
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.

Quote Originally Posted by Kraco
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.