Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-212.56.135.17-20160525143405/@comment-27565137-20160601163234

212.56.135.17 wrote: Bugthe wrote: what type of technology did you expect them to have?

I already mentioned a wind turbine which is what many DIY people do to generate some sort of electricity in remote areas. Once you have a source of electricity then what you can do becomes only a question of what you need and what you can salvage. You can create a home made light bulb with very little material for example. Even just scavenging would have given them access to a good pool of material. Them not using any guns is also strange. The continues war between the tribes and mount weather would have pushed to an arms race. Wind turbines would be useful if they had any way to use that energy. Which they don't. They may look at a light bulb and have no idea what it's for. That it needs electricity. Even the very basic knowledge about electricity would to them seem like magic or out of their world.

Guns are another example. I bet Grounders found guns at one point or another. But using a pistol or shotgun that's mostly rusted and with ammunition with so many years or decades on top of them. The moment a Grounded used a gun, it most likely blew his hands off. That or it did nothing. Either way there would no way for someone that was never taught about guns to know how to use them and even the dangers they represent. It would be like if you built a time machine and sent a fully loaded pistol to let's say... Ancient Egypt. They might figure out how to use it, or not, and even if they did they'd have no way to know how to make bullets, keep the gun in working conditions. And even how to make more.

Even if you sent a pen and instructions on how to make more, there's no way for sure they'd use that knowledge or if they'd want it. The only way to secure knowledge is to pass it on from generation to generation. Something Grounders obviously didn't do. Not about a lot of stuff.