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Author: bejjinks

Jul 29th 2014 at 1:22:56 PM

The trope has potential but needs clarity.

Another thing about the Star Trek example is that, not only did they lose a significant number of their population, they lost a lot of their cultural heritage and their government. Which brings up a point about all the other examples.

It would be like if France was wiped out, the French culture and government would also fall. Even though France has colonies and there are many French people in the rest of the world, they all still look to Paris for their government and culture.

Unless humans truly became an intergalactic civilization it does make sense that destroying the Earth would deprive humanity of their culture and identity. No matter how many colonies there were, they'd fall into infighting and civil war. There would be no unity.  The only surviving humanity would be in pockets and those pockets might go underground to hide from potential threats. So Titan A.E. does make sense in that way.

This is still a trope though. It doesn't have to be FridgeLogic to be a trope. It just has to be a meaningful theme.

How about Battlestar Galactica. They lose twelve planets and survive as only a few thousand refugees, traveling across the universe on almost derelict ships,