User blog comment:CrimsonAssassin/New BFE Map Game Anybody?/@comment-4758513-20130524192631/@comment-3528888-20130527190852

I agree for the most part...different alien nations can have different means of achieving the technology though(like one alien species uses slipspace-type, others use hyperspace, others use jump drives, others use tachyon propulsion etc...), but ammount to the same thing...for the backstory, we can have established "canon" BFE ancient aliens fill that role: "phantoms" and the "Guardians"...and we could have them wipe themselves out...or contribute to each other's downfall(like, the ancient gods or deities in the races could eitehr be the phantoms, or the guardians, or both), they may have had a war, and these races' remainders probably fled the galaxy for one reason or another to get away from it while everyone else died. Azarath technology will always be based on matter energy conversions, azaranians could have set up a instant transport network, like the ones in previous games, that can transport people instantly by adding and subtracting spacial demensions/transporting between universes/making people exist in 2 places at once, in two words, space magic, but need both fixed entry and exit points, cant transport somewhere without a transport relay. The Galactic UN, or maybe we could call it the Celestial summit or something like that, could contribute to technological eveness, because a larger galactic community sharing tech and so on(sort of like humans in mass effect, they went from wearing halo-esque marine armour during the first contact war, to wearing full body space armour with kinetic barriers less than 20 years later, as interactoins and tech trade made this affordable). Although, some nations that are older might be reluctant to share with "primitives" if they have done so before and the primitives killed themselves.