: Re: Is it so bad to end up with a "done before" plot? I'm not delusional about the nature of the science fiction novel I'm (very) slowly working on. A brief run down might be as follows: Set

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Maybe what you feel is "story is unrealistic." If a race is so advanced, why would it need war? If they can build robots, they can build a self-replicating plant on some planet and wait until the robots have overwhelmed the enemy be sheer number. A million can't do it? You can build billions from the material of a single planet and that number is so low because you don't mine for every speck of ore. And if one planet isn't enough, take ten. Or a hundred.

I've always felt that "advanced" means "can't be forced to kill/harm/hurt." So how about this twist: Artifact appears friendly but starts to corrupt humans. Old race comes back to fix its mistake but the humans (dumb as they are) try to stop them, supported by the sentient artifact that doesn't want to "die."

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