Life on a "Backwater" Planet

>>50934363
Inb4 and then the fire nation attacked

It'd be better than living on homeworlds or developed colonies or...Flotillas, I don't know. Fewer people and a more laid back atmosphere, plus a reduced chance of being targeted in the event of war.

>>50934568
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You dirtfuckers will never know the simple pleasures of enjoying a cool antiradiation cocktail on the veranda after a day of plinking meteorites with the ciws guns

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>>50934363
If you've ever grown up in a quiet third world country like, say, Costa Rica, you'd know.

Live moves slowly. Peacefully. Everything big going on seems so far away.

...until the goddamn commercialization comes.

It starts slowly. Improved infrastructure for the main roads. Cuts down travel time by a good 30 minutes or so. Increases domestic trade. Better communications systems. You get more digital entertainment from abroad.

But then the foreigners see how nice and peaceful your home is. They start wanting it because it's "different."

Suddenly, the quiet sea side village that your grandfather helped found as a landlord is no longer a secluded, peaceful Eden untouched by man. You start seeing the changes. There is an expat bar. Then new hotels with casinos. Then rich movie stars build rich condos in on the overlooking mountain that they visit only 3 days out of the standard year. Then the rich prick oligarchs from backward countries with no culture build gaudy mini palaces. Pollution and climate change means the sea level rises. Entire meters of your precious coastline, to say nothing of your childhood memories, are lost. There used to be sea shells, now it's just sand and loud tourists speaking their foreign language. A new nightclub plays loud music at night. Light pollution means you can't even see the stars at night anymore.

All you can do is remember, mourn what has been lost.... and swear vengeance.

>>50935563
You forgot the Dinosaurs.

Jurassic Park is in Costa Rica right?

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>>50935619
There is no such thing as an island with dinosaurs there.

Move along.

You say it's not 'primitive', but hear me out: Firefly-style anachronisms actually make a lot of sense if the planet doesn't have its own industrial base. Having horses in space for farmwork and travel makes a lot more sense than having cars or tractors if you can't keep them supplied with fuel and replacement parts. With animals, you just need a breeding pair and you have self-replicating industrial automatons who can be maintained with a skill veterinarian and a food supply.

The opposite is true if food scarcity is an issue, so a lot of it depends on the climate of the planet involved, how habitable it is, and how easy it is to produce food there. Likewise, if your setting has any sort of nanofabrication technology (or even just really good 3D printers), the spare parts thing becomes less of an issue even in really isolated parts of the setting.

>>50935563
>Live moves slowly. Peacefully. Everything big going on seems so far away.
>...until the goddamn commercialization comes.

The island hometown I grew up in was consumed by this same process.
It isn't a hive/den for tourists, but there was at one point a ravine and a small section of forest separating one side of the town from the other: it was cut down, ravine filled in, and now it's more identical "modern" housing for retirees.

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>>50935727
>Firefly-style anachronisms actually make a lot of sense if the planet doesn't have its own industrial base.

Honestly, I've always pegged these sort of situations as having a soft-capped kind of mix of technology in the sense that you'd go to these backwater planets and:

There'd be a portion of them using Horses/ridable animal because naturally, why wouldn't they? But I'd also expect them to have some level of "comfortable cheap standard model equipment" akin to what we see in developing nations: small hearty cars, scooters, motorcycles, with a large dependency on public transportation established and maintained from colonization or hand-me-down buses.
I'm using terrestrial terms of course- if it were an Ocean world you'd have a similar sort of situation only with scooners n' ferries, etc..

Even with replicators though I still get the feeling that "science fiction" modern conveniences would still be QUITE expensive. Like, you'd see people with cellphones, radios, television and so forth, but their reception would most likely begin and end with their own planet- MAYBE their moon if they have a habituated one?

Maybe you'd see a few rich persons with access to space wifi, but overall I'd expect the public to be reliant on local broadcast for all their space news?
Enoch heads down to the petrel station on his Blue Tuenpeck to pick up some fuel for his farming equipment and maybe some ammunition for when he goes hunting this weekend. He takes the 1st and only highway down- passing a few tractors, 5 people sharing a motorcycle, and a bus spewing out black exhaust before he gets to the station where the sound of a local television buzzes out the latest news from outside their system that's so "out there" it's still listed as a number.
Something like that.

>>50935563

Holy shit another tico in /tg/!

Mae estoy buscando otro PC para una campaña de PF. Normalmente le damos los fines de semana le interesa?

>>50935563
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