"A race with strong Racial Value, the 'Chi Civilization', and another skilled in earth technology, the 'Giant Stone Civilization'."
He lowered his voice: "But the positions of these Second Generation Civilizations are generally quite vague... It's said... just said, that internal hedonism is severe, and oligarchic corruption is often evident."
"When the upper echelons are corrupt, naturally the lower levels will have no combat effectiveness."
"Of course, that's my conjecture, it's hard to say exactly."
Old Cat sneered: "These Second Generation Civilizations were originally at Level 5, now they've fallen to Level Four, don't expect anything from these incompetent fools."
A civilization's progress is difficult, but regression is all too easy.
Dynasties have their cycles, Ideal Technology has even larger cycles; once those few geniuses die, Ideal Technology can't carry on—this, in fact, is one of Ideal's shortcomings.
