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Comments on What could be a believable reason for technologically advanced underground people to not notice the end of surface war for hundreds of years?

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What could be a believable reason for technologically advanced underground people to not notice the end of surface war for hundreds of years? Question

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Consider the following scenario:

We are in a far future. Technology has advanced quite a bit.

A large, devastating global war has broken out. One faction decides to hide from that war underground; thanks to their technology they can create an autonomous society that's completely separated from the above-ground societies. There still exist a few connections to the outside world, but those are well hidden from the outside, and have protection technology to keep surface people out who might accidentally discover those.

The war has now ended hundreds of years ago, and the people on the surface have lost all advanced technology. However for some reason the underground people didn't notice the end of the war, and still believe it is going on.

My question now is: What could be a believable reason that those underground people, who never lost their advanced technology, would not notice the end of the war for hundreds of years, and nobody ever went to the surface to look, despite the entrances still existing and being usable?

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I don't think that anyone can really answer that without first answering how they expected to know in the first place. …

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The war was devastating but nobody thought it would be so bad they'd nuke all advanced technology from their memory. Eve …

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I've read one novel with a similar setting where the answer was: a small number in the government know the truth, but th …

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They can only see a cut-out of the reality Depending on their technological capabilities underground people might hav …

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An alternative Maybe they did notice the war had ended, but still chose not to leave the safety of their underground so …

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Philip K. Dick would posit[^the-defenders] that the surface war is all done by robots. The robots lie about what is happ …

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The underground society may be technologically advanced, but they are still humans, and humans have a tendency to create …

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Vault-Net has control It was considered at some point to install an AI that would help the underground people to have …

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If they are acting rationally, it's not possible. It is only logical for them to monitor the progress of the situation t …

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First, this scenario is highly implausible. Surely the people that went underground intended to pop up again once the w …

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They lost the key The outside gate was rather "low tech" like a vault door. Then over time need arised to add layers …

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Undergrounds is a garden of Eden The people undergrounds love to live there. They have all they need and have not dev …

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Are supernatural elements within scope? (3 comments)
Are supernatural elements within scope?

I can think of a few reasons that may include something out of our world, either that one of the fighting factions was supernatural, that something supernatural lingers, etc, etc. Is this outside of scope?

celtschk‭ wrote 3 months ago

True supernatural would be outside the scope. But sufficiently advanced technology would not be.

Well, if the underground society believes there are supernatural elements, but that those are actually just illusions created with technology by one of the surface factions possibly since wiped out, I guess that qualifies as an answer.