Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-67.193.170.188-20170224122257/@comment-176.205.66.48-20171204184910

Hey,

About the traditions and whatnot, a hundred years is almost 10 generations (considering that a generation is 5 years older and 5 years younger than any given year), in 10 generations a lot of adaptations had to be taken into consideration for them to be able to survive in the hostile enviroments that they were forced to live in. Take people who live in countries where they mostly live in villages and wildlife for example, their traditions and their ability to survive is much different than what we need to do to survive.

And as for the language, I've recently read an article by the man who made the language himself, David J. Peterson, if you pay attention carefully Trigedesleng is just a more vulgar and bastarised language of how teenagers nowadays speak (slang). Keep in mind they do not raise their kids to be literates or educated, they pride themselves in becoming warriors and survivalists, so I do not think anyone tried too hard to preserve the language as it wasn't as improtant to them as surviving. But also, if you noticed, warriors and commanders in Trikru do know how to speak English, presumably to understand what the mountain men were saying, but hide that fact. So the change, or the gradual change of the English language might have been a way for Trikru to communicate without the Mountain Men understanding them.

And last, it has been almost a 100 years after the nuclear blast, so speaking rationally, the people who originally survived the nuclear bombings and radiation focused more on having a roof on top of their heads than having modern buildings and such. Think of the world at first, people then have lived in simple housings rather than extravageous buildings. Why would they waste their resources and energy on building or rebuilding complicated structures rather than build simple houses that could house them all? Yes, there were ruins when the nuclear bombs hit but I'm sure that as people started herding into villages, they "cleaned up" their territory and made it a place they could live in.

And last but not least, the guns. Trikru had this legend that if a grounder picks up a gun whether it be for the Mountain Men or other grounders, that the Mountain Men would wipe out their entire vilage, so they have resorted to other methods of hunting and killing (i.e spears, swords, knives, etc...) And after they wiped out the mountain, I believe that it is hard to convince an entire population that is acceptable for them to start using guns again, imagine someone told you that something you have been brought up to believe is suddenly untrue, or suddenly acceptable, it takes time for them to adjust. Plus, they're exceptionally good at using their own weapons, why would they need guns? Also, if you notice, most of Trikru's tactics in attacking others and defending themselves mostly rely on being undetectably silent, using guns would completely wipe out their only standarised way of planning attacks.

I know this is long :P but thought I'd explain everything rather than leave blank spaces in the explanation