Twilight Imperium wrote:Tarsonis wrote:They're technologically on par, but that doesn't mean they're scientifically on par. Science is one of those things that you get put of it what you put into it. If they're not putting a lot of work into stellar cartography for example, they're not gonna be as far along as the feds are. This is what I meant, their non military research is severely lacking. They might be ahead on military technology, but behind on astronomy and stellar anatomy.
I mean there's "we can't cause inverse space-time wedgies as well as the Feds" and there's "we didn't notice our own god damned star is being hinky". We'd probably notice our star moving towards nova with today's tech and telescopes.
we wouldn't even know what to look for