C. O. Thompson wrote:..snip..
The inner circle have the tools to make the tools to make the tools to build star-ships, they don't have the raw materials to build even one more PICA and they have the orbital and the Arch Angles clock to be concerned about so... the need for hidden space industry has to be at the top of the list.
True, they don't have to reinvent everything, but there is a lot of infrastructure that must be built up before they are ready to face the Gbaba again.
I think the rebuilding is going to go quite fast, having for example Owl running it means that the rebuild will be more of a geometric progression.
But as you say, the OBS and the return needs to be addressed before that can happen.[/quote]
The cultural rebuilding will take 2 generations. It will take that long for the NEATs have their impact. As soon as the archangels are discredited, NEAT interfaces can be implanted in children. By the time those children hit 40, 2 generations of NEAT educated adults hit the core working ages. Even if the elder Safeholdians get prolong treatment, they cannot really contribute without the education the NEATs provide. Those folks will begin being set aside in favor of NEAT educated individuals.
Many non-NEAT educated folks will still be able to learn how to do technology well. The majority will not.
As a side effect, I doubt more democratic institutions will arise soon after The Reveal. The disparity between those with NEAT educations and those without will cause all sorts of issues. Especially when the numbers will favor non-NEAT education for decades.[/quote]
It may take two generations till the general population is aware of what the inner circle is up to but... in that time, with automation and, if some of the older members of the inner circle 'retire/die' to relocate to the space industrial platforms, there may even be a fleet to work with.