From: nuny@bid.nes   
      
   On Sunday, October 1, 2017 at 2:06:15 PM UTC-7, 0something0 wrote:   
   > I am creating an SF universe where a natural event threw the entire Banks   
   > Orbital back into the (European)medieval age.   
      
     Like what, a rogue miniature black hole zips through the center at a large   
   fraction of c (to prevent killing everyone with gamma rays) and eats the Mind?   
      
     What other "natural event" could do this?   
      
   > However, there are physical records of advanced technology as well as people   
   > scattered throughout the megastructure. How fast could technology bound back   
   > to modern times?   
      
     The inhabitants will have the same problems as those of Niven's original   
   Ringworld after the Superconductor Plague, only worse. They can't mine for   
   ores and will be dependent on machinery that can work without the Mind's   
   assistance, and will die in    
   droves as that breaks down. The survivors will try to reuse dead machinery but   
   I doubt that Civilization-level machinery will be amenable to a blacksmith's   
   technology.   
      
     They won't be used to working in large groups to grow and harvest food   
   crops, either. That will take a great toll until they figure it out.   
      
     To me their only hope is that another Mind notices they haven't communicated   
   in a while and comes to investigate before they're all dead.   
      
      
     Mark L. Fergerson   
      
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