Alternate Adam and Eve Challenge

[Spacescifi]

Scifi allows for any narrative one wants, even playing god.

That is kind pf the route I am fascinated with, and along that route, I came to a strange conculsion.

Suppose you have an alternate scifi alien Adam and Eve scenario EXCEPT.

1. They stay biologically immortal (never aging past prime adulthood) and pass that on to their children.

2. Their maker has no vested interest in keeping control over them and just really wants to watch and see what happens. He gives them three commands:

1. Multiply.

2. Do not by action or inaction destroy yourself or your offspring...unless necessary for command 3.

3. Create/engineer to ensure that the universe itself is not totally destroyed along with all life in it.

This heavily implies that in the future they will have the tech power to prevent that one day if they survive long enough. This also implies that one day the very existence of the universe will be threatened.

After that their maker lets them do their thing...zero interference on an Earth-like world with wildlife that is like Earth's, in that some can be domesticated but others are wild and will kill for food.

Strange conclusion:

1.  Conflict with kids is inevitable: The first parents will initially rule over a large family of children. As the children grow up and begin to have children of their own due to mating with each other, soon they will develop clans of their own apart from their All-Father and All-Mother. Sooner or later someone will want to rule themselves intead of letting All-Father and All-Mother tell them what to do.

2. War is VERY likely although not necessarily inevitable: It would no doubt pain the original parents to go to war with their own descendants, but at some point that is the kind of thing that happens when talks break down.

3. How Long Would The Original Parents Even Survive?

Yes...big question. Since they would have to survive their own offspring, tech advances, any natural disasters that occur over millennia...and finally when they make contact with OTHER scifi races across the stars (they do exist). Space colonization is ABSOLUTELY essential given immortality and having babies. Too many would mess up planet resources.

 

What do you think?

How would you play it if you were an original biologically immortal parent who would pass that on to your kids and fill the planet?

Would you try and rule? Or keep a low profile and just support any tech advances you could to help get your race spacebound as colonists one day? 

Note: Other scifi races across the stars were given commands slightly different than your own, so do not be suprised if that becomes a point of conflict unless you can engender peace somehow nonetheless.

 

Bonus Question: What is the likelihood the original couple would stay together as a couple rather than break up and seek mates among their descendants?

Low to impossible? I think the ONLY way they stay together as a couple is if they have the same main goals.

Edited November 19, 2020 by Spacescifi

[TheSaint]

You should read Fall; or, Dodge in Hell by Neal Stephenson. I think you would enjoy it.

[kerbiloid]

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[Spacescifi]

4 hours ago, TheSaint said:

You should read Fall; or, Dodge in Hell by Neal Stephenson. I think you would enjoy it.

The plot seems generic (I have seen it before).

Unless the characters are written well it would not interest me since I have seen that plot before.

Playing God is not the concept I I really care about...rather the reality that immortality is both a gift and a responsibility

Something us mortals can still take to heart. Since either way...making wise choices is vital....I would argue even more so in the OP, since there are simply enough threats to their survival in the universe that simply being biologically immortal won't be enough to ensure survival.

 

Although I will say this...both mortal and immortal races would exist, and the immortal would achieve things mortals never could...which shouldbe expected anyway.

Knowledge compounded by a lot more experience and time is powerful.