I think that you still need to live long enough to at least be able to learn stuff and explore that knowledge. Too short a life and all you have time for is eat fuck breed kill someone else on your way out.
I don't know much about Skaven though other than a dozen hours in Vermintide 2 and the player characters werent saying much other than "fuck rats" 😂
Is there a Goldilocks lifespan that humans conveniently meet between too short and too long?
I suppose the alternative would be a fiction setting where humans are actually an outlier for inferiority and pretty much everyone else is more developed and has a more advanced civilization.
Humans being the new kids on the block with inferior technology is a pretty common thing. Babylon 5 had humans buy, trade, and negotiate for most of their tech and are barely more advanced than the average small independent world at the start of the show. Farscape had Earth as a backwater, uncontacted, pre-interstellar world and made humans unusually frail with poor eyesight compared to the other species. Even in Trek, humans are physiologically inferior to most everyone and ENT depicted our tech as being far behind everyone else.
The real advantage humanity is consistently depicted as having, regardless of setting, franchise, or even sci-fi vs fantasy, is that we develop new technology faster than just about anyone else. In sci-fi settings, we'll go from barely getting to Mars to colonizing the entire Orion Arm in a couple decades. In fantasy settings, we'll be first to develop firearms and rudimentary industrialization.
I credit Stargate for one novelty: it showed humans being mostly primitive compared to the greys, but the greys never thought about firing projectiles out of gas-powered cylinders, so they said that was interesting and effective.
Shorter lived species than humans should be even more widespread and rapidly developing. Skaven should invade 40k before 40k is 40k! 🐀
Great, now I have "I am the very model of a scientist Salarian" stuck in my head
DON'T swallow.
I think that you still need to live long enough to at least be able to learn stuff and explore that knowledge. Too short a life and all you have time for is eat fuck breed kill someone else on your way out.
I don't know much about Skaven though other than a dozen hours in Vermintide 2 and the player characters werent saying much other than "fuck rats" 😂
Is there a Goldilocks lifespan that humans conveniently meet between too short and too long?
I suppose the alternative would be a fiction setting where humans are actually an outlier for inferiority and pretty much everyone else is more developed and has a more advanced civilization.
Humans being the new kids on the block with inferior technology is a pretty common thing. Babylon 5 had humans buy, trade, and negotiate for most of their tech and are barely more advanced than the average small independent world at the start of the show. Farscape had Earth as a backwater, uncontacted, pre-interstellar world and made humans unusually frail with poor eyesight compared to the other species. Even in Trek, humans are physiologically inferior to most everyone and ENT depicted our tech as being far behind everyone else.
The real advantage humanity is consistently depicted as having, regardless of setting, franchise, or even sci-fi vs fantasy, is that we develop new technology faster than just about anyone else. In sci-fi settings, we'll go from barely getting to Mars to colonizing the entire Orion Arm in a couple decades. In fantasy settings, we'll be first to develop firearms and rudimentary industrialization.
I credit Stargate for one novelty: it showed humans being mostly primitive compared to the greys, but the greys never thought about firing projectiles out of gas-powered cylinders, so they said that was interesting and effective.
Most of the time scrappy underdog humans pull ahead and look more awesome in fiction with their inferior tech.