There is also an alternative realistic scenario where Tsukasa [temporarily?] wins. That happens if upon killing Senku, Tsukasa buries or destroys his body himself.
Though, to get a scientist not trying to undermine the empire, Tsukasa would need to play Newcomb-like Omega (conditioning reviving the scientist on him cooperating, as any other option qualifies as a ignorable threat). Not getting any science advances would put the tribe on the edge of loss (due to illnesses, Petrification Kingdom, inability to revive people fast enough, inability to anticipate outcomes of any specific revival order, etc).
Yes, while Tsukasa has no particular reason to think Senku could revive himself, he might have done that out of simple guilt/regret. Just one of many reasons that specific plan was very shonen-idiotic. (Your tolerance for Dr Stone’s strange blend of oscillating rapidly between shonen-idiocy where everyone is holding idiot balls 24⁄7 in a world which makes zero sense, and Robinson Crusoe STEM nerd ratfic, will determine how much you enjoy it, I think.)
But even if Tsukasa accidentally deals with Senku in a definitive way, he still has the same basic issue: many people can defect and trigger a civilization-level reboot on their own, and he only has to screw up once. No matter how many ‘statues’ he destroys locally to prevent revival, and how carefully he selects who to revive, it just doesn’t work statistically. (Even handwaving away the wildly absurd worldbuilding which postulates that there can be at least 2 stable villages of hundreds or thousands of humans living at an advanced tech level for 3000+ years without anyone ever recolonizing the rest of the world.) His preferred plan leaves way too much ‘hardware overhang’; he needs a singleton, and it’s not obvious where he’d ever get that.
(And the worldbuilding further implies that Tsukasa’s plan is doomed because Senku is merely the first to wake up due to a double coincidence of location & his mental activity, and all the intact statues would revive eventually worldwide, and neither Tsukasa nor his successors could handle that.)
There is also an alternative realistic scenario where Tsukasa [temporarily?] wins. That happens if upon killing Senku, Tsukasa buries or destroys his body himself.
Though, to get a scientist not trying to undermine the empire, Tsukasa would need to play Newcomb-like Omega (conditioning reviving the scientist on him cooperating, as any other option qualifies as a ignorable threat). Not getting any science advances would put the tribe on the edge of loss (due to illnesses, Petrification Kingdom, inability to revive people fast enough, inability to anticipate outcomes of any specific revival order, etc).
Yes, while Tsukasa has no particular reason to think Senku could revive himself, he might have done that out of simple guilt/regret. Just one of many reasons that specific plan was very shonen-idiotic. (Your tolerance for Dr Stone’s strange blend of oscillating rapidly between shonen-idiocy where everyone is holding idiot balls 24⁄7 in a world which makes zero sense, and Robinson Crusoe STEM nerd ratfic, will determine how much you enjoy it, I think.)
But even if Tsukasa accidentally deals with Senku in a definitive way, he still has the same basic issue: many people can defect and trigger a civilization-level reboot on their own, and he only has to screw up once. No matter how many ‘statues’ he destroys locally to prevent revival, and how carefully he selects who to revive, it just doesn’t work statistically. (Even handwaving away the wildly absurd worldbuilding which postulates that there can be at least 2 stable villages of hundreds or thousands of humans living at an advanced tech level for 3000+ years without anyone ever recolonizing the rest of the world.) His preferred plan leaves way too much ‘hardware overhang’; he needs a singleton, and it’s not obvious where he’d ever get that.
(And the worldbuilding further implies that Tsukasa’s plan is doomed because Senku is merely the first to wake up due to a double coincidence of location & his mental activity, and all the intact statues would revive eventually worldwide, and neither Tsukasa nor his successors could handle that.)