The lost people may thrive in their isolated paradise, struggle to eke out an existence, or Go Mad from the Isolation.Ĭompare with After the End and Space Amish. Less commonly, a Lost Colony can occur in an isolated region of Earth, such as a hidden valley, rainforest, or shipwrecked on an uncharted island. These worlds are a popular venue for Planetary Romances.
Of course, the theory of panspermia, that the first bacteria were dropped on Earth from space, still enables a scientifically plausible "Lost Colony" in a far more general sense. Maybe they are part of La Résistance and they fear a reprisal if Earth vessels find them.Īnd of course, it's always popular to reveal that Earth was really a lost colony and that Humanity Came From Space, though genetic evidence that humans and other Earth organisms are biologically related, all the way back to the first bacteria, has made this increasingly hard to sustain. In some cases, a colony leader or faction may intentionally destroy the communications gear or sabotage the space vessels to ensure that there is no rescue, and keep the colony isolated. And sometimes the old technology and genuine magic are used side by side. Sometimes there is genuine supernatural magic happening, or something that can pass for it, and all advanced technology has been lost. Oftentimes whatever remains of the old technology will be mistaken for magic by the colonists' descendants. Over time, the descendants may also forget that their ancestors ever came from another planet, making the story at first glance seem to be set in a pure fantasy world. The first generations may continue to use the advanced technology, but over the generations, their descendants' politics, economics and culture regress to match their pre-Industrial Revolution technology level. In some cases, the colony may still have comms, but Earth has faced a calamity or apocalypse, so there's no one answering at Mission Control.Īlternatively, a spaceship having nothing to do with colonization is forced to make an emergency landing on a habitable planet in an uncharted star system, and for some reason, they never get rescued.Įither way, the colony must try to survive without any resupplying or new information from Earth.
A human colony on another planet experiences a disaster which destroys its communications or space travel capability, and for some reason the rest of humanity never checks up on that colony with which it suddenly lost all contact.
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