advanced ancient technology is such a popular theme
Well one reason is it’s a good way to produce plot relevant artefacts. It’s hard to have dramatic battles over some object when a factory is churning out more.
Well that’s the usual reason to invoke it, I was more talking about the reason it lands as a believable or interesting explanation.
Notably, Terra Ignota managed to produce a mcguffin by having the canner device be extremely illegal by having even knowledge of its existence be a threat to the world’s information infrastructure, so I’d guess that’s the reason, iirc, they only made one.
Well one reason is it’s a good way to produce plot relevant artefacts. It’s hard to have dramatic battles over some object when a factory is churning out more.
Yeah.
Well that’s the usual reason to invoke it, I was more talking about the reason it lands as a believable or interesting explanation.
Notably, Terra Ignota managed to produce a mcguffin by having the canner device be extremely illegal by having even knowledge of its existence be a threat to the world’s information infrastructure, so I’d guess that’s the reason, iirc, they only made one.