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** Well yeah... On the other hand, it can be argued that if the tech were redesigned with a different set of restrictions a functioning society could be constructed where the only difference is a proportionally greater quantity of power in a given individual. For example, just nanites gets you basic reaction-less acceleration and environmental invulnerability up to and including no atmosphere, with society authorizing individuals for larger allowed power-levels (increasing abilities and granting new ones,) culminating in combat-level and finally the old Meister Gems. Perhaps acquired similarly to driving licenses, with the combat-level and Meister Gems subject to the strictest regulation and years of training. It just seems like the ancients had a knee-jerk reaction to a new tech and applied some unneeded restrictions to it.

** [[Humans Are Bastards|Because humans]] [[Sarcasm Mode|are such a peacefull people]]. No matter what tech they would release, someone would at some point use it as a weapon. They are planning to slowly release technology at the end of the serie. Otomes are used to prevent long and costly wars, by having them tied to leaders. Decide to go to war? Better be sure fo your abbility to win or it's your funeral. However, we have seen what most of the old tech is: world destroying weaponry. You really want to give that to public?

 

=== Why didn't the Windbloom royal family get a new Otome after Rena was "depowered"? Not only that, from the way Sergei and others present the story (that the Windbloom invasion "coincidentally" happened right after Rena's "retirement", when she'd already been "retired" for about a year at that point) it sounds like Windbloom and/or Garderobe kept Rena's depowerment and subsequent pregnancy a secret from the public, only choosing to reveal it a few months after Arika had been born. Why? ===