How would the world react

My story involve a alien device that contain great technological knowledge that uplift the planet from a early medieval society to modern age in like 100 years eventhough the inhabitant of that world barely scratch the surface of the device knowledge. The device is like a STC, it show the inhabitant how to built thing but not necessary understand how thing work . The device also being use at a deadlock between the world powerful nations, each given a piece so that they all on equal footing so no one can invade the others. Then one day, the owner of the device come a want to take it back since in his opinion, the inhabitant hadn't earn the knowledge to safely use the device, like they could accidentally built a doomday weapon and blow themselves off. How would the world goverment and ruling class react?

This is a very open-ended question. The easy answer for the question, "How would the world react," would be "any way you want them to". You're the one writing the story.

But let's roll with the premise. You take the Medieval world and add Imported Alien Phlebotinum to it: giving them the ability to build super tech without the scientific knowledge to understand it or the cultural advancement to use it responsibly. What you get is warfare. Catastrophic warfare.

Okay, less pithy. You say that the tech is divided up among various nations so that none has a decisive advantage. I'm not entirely sure what this means: do some get ray guns and others get shields that can stop the ray guns? Do some get food replicators and others get flying cars? It's difficult to imagine that you could achieve a stable balance of power in such a situation without an external force acting as referee.

Someone would gain the upper hand eventually by stealing the tech or just having more applicable tech (the battle mech folks stomp all over the Garden of Eden Creation Kit folks) and achieve some form of strategic dominance, but the general lack of political stability means that you'd have coups and infighting and Thor knows what other kinds of problems.

When the aliens come back to reclaim their phlebotinum, they'd most likely find a world that's quite a bit worse off than it was previously. Now, given that it's a century later, you could establish that some politically stable, scientifically literate power took over, claimed most of the tech, and forged a world government capable of organizing resistance. Again, it's your story.

Given the general lack of literacy and surfeit of superstition endemic to the time period, it wouldn't take much for people to start worshiping the technology and the aliens that provided it as gods. You could roll with this in any way you like.

Edited by Fighteer on Mar 15th 2019 at 12:09:18 PM

I guess my question was too broad. Basically the most important technology they manage to dig through the STC was the alien battlesuit technology due to the first guy who found the STC manage to use it to create the first battlesuit on their world and using it to establish himself as god and brought peace to the world during his lifetime. After the first guy pass away, the STC and the original battlesuit was split into multi pieces. Each country only manage to recreate lesser version of the battlesuit, some are stronger, some are faster but none are as powerful as the original one. This lead to each nation have advantage in certain aspect of the battlefield but not all of them( one specialize in melee and infantry, one specialized in aerial warfare,....). the rest of the tech is lock in the STC which is hard to decode since it was divided and the blueprint it provide is fragmented. Sometime they could discover something good from the STC by guessing, fill in the flank. No nation want to share their piece of knowledge due to fearing losing their own advantage or the enemies might accidentally discover more powerful weapon. The main referee for these nation is the church founded to worship the first guy who found the STC.

The story mainly follow the alien. There only one cause his entire team are dead. His ship crashlanded on this world while searching for the STC. Half of his team died on impact, the other half died from stasis pod failure and human scholar poke around. The STC technically not belong to them, it belong to their creators, but their creators are dead and the main character team mission is to retrieve the STC before it cause any damage.

Well, it sounds like you've already done all the world-building. The obvious answer to, "How would the world react if some alien showed up to claim the tech that they've been using for the past hundred years," is: badly. As in: arrest it, brand it a demon, and find out how its entrails look.

Now, there might be some humans sympathetic to this alien's plight: maybe they recognize that the tech is unnatural, maybe they resent the changes that it brought to their society, maybe they are plotting to claim it for themselves and want to manipulate the alien(s) into helping them. Or, you could have different groups representing all of these angles.

Edited by Fighteer on Apr 1st 2019 at 4:42:22 AM