Normal Powers
To get energy to live in the way in which they had become accustomed, the Ancients would have tried everything. There would have been physical methods tried out – ways to bring in more power, or to find new sources that could be used.
There may have been mental and spiritual efforts to boost the receptive qualities of people or to more effectively utilize the energy that would be available in the coming ‘dark ages’ as the Age of Silver progressed inexorably towards the Age of Bronze.
But some would have pushed the power to its limits, and maybe beyond, as they tried to boost the available energy levels so their lives could continue as they had known them – maybe trying to boost the power output of the Great Pyramid caused a blowout and precipitated a collapse such as they were trying to avoid?
Others may have tried to find better ways to use the power – sometimes the way we use things isn’t always the ‘cheapest’ way – look at the low-wattage bulbs that are on supermarket shelves now compared to the old incandescent ones.
They would have set up schools and other operations to research the best ways to survive, or failing that, looking for any means to either shorten the Dark Age they saw coming or to boost the long slow climb back up to the Light. From what we know, they don’t seem to have had writing – maybe they had telepathy instead so writing wasn’t a requirement. But looking around they seem to have made fairly major investments in structures that would hold knowledge in their very shape, layout and construction.
And they built them to last through time.
April 3rd, 2009 at 3:38 am
Hello. Great job. I did not expect this on a Wednesday. This is a great story. Thanks!