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** But later on implies that their records of of the industrial past are basically intact, if a bit threadbare (heh). After all, the society still has advanced technology, even if its resources are stretched so thin it can't afford to use it much. |
** But later on implies that their records of of the industrial past are basically intact, if a bit threadbare (heh). After all, the society still has advanced technology, even if its resources are stretched so thin it can't afford to use it much. |
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** The use of the God Soldiers in war, however, definitely counts--it resulted in the Seven Days of Fire, a planetary Class 2 [[Apocalypse How]]. |
** The use of the God Soldiers in war, however, definitely counts--it resulted in the Seven Days of Fire, a planetary Class 2 [[Apocalypse How]]. |
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** Similarly, ''[[Castle in |
** Similarly, ''[[Laputa: Castle in the Sky]]'' opens with a montage of gradually advancing aeronautic devices culminating with the titular Castle before [[And Man Grew Proud|disaster strikes]] and thin streams of people can be seen evacuating the ruins and returning to [[After the End|life on the ground.]] |
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* The anime ''[[Scrapped Princess]]'' makes use of this trope: it is revealed in the end that the medieval world that the characters live in was {{spoiler|an artificial enclave for humanity built on a section of a planet's crust elevated from the rest of the world}}. From the shots of the whole world, it is implied that {{spoiler|this planet is Earth. Mauser, the deity of the world as well as other mythological characters are actually individuals who lived and fought in the era when humanity was robbed of most of its technology, ostensibly after losing a war against an alien race.}} |
* The anime ''[[Scrapped Princess]]'' makes use of this trope: it is revealed in the end that the medieval world that the characters live in was {{spoiler|an artificial enclave for humanity built on a section of a planet's crust elevated from the rest of the world}}. From the shots of the whole world, it is implied that {{spoiler|this planet is Earth. Mauser, the deity of the world as well as other mythological characters are actually individuals who lived and fought in the era when humanity was robbed of most of its technology, ostensibly after losing a war against an alien race.}} |
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* It is unclear how much of the vague, over-the-top legendary backstory of ''[[Mai-Otome]]'' is true and how much is just an ignorant dramatization of the real events. The Administar, for example, is definitely something the locals have no idea about (given what Miyu does to it in the end), which doesn't stop them from reciting symbolic poems devoted to the "guiding blue star", supposedly written by the [[Ancient Astronauts]] from Earth. |
* It is unclear how much of the vague, over-the-top legendary backstory of ''[[Mai-Otome]]'' is true and how much is just an ignorant dramatization of the real events. The Administar, for example, is definitely something the locals have no idea about (given what Miyu does to it in the end), which doesn't stop them from reciting symbolic poems devoted to the "guiding blue star", supposedly written by the [[Ancient Astronauts]] from Earth. |
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