RyansWorld: Insect Civilization

From Future

Around the year 4000 A.D., the Earth will be relegated to a status of the center of an intergalatic republic. Once considered the only inhabitable planet of the university, it become just one of many planets by the year 2105. The Earth houses only government workers (who have to work on planet Earth), naturalists (who admire planet Earth), environmentalists (who want to help planet Earth), tradespeople (who work the high-tech green jobs on planet Earth), merchants (who have to sell stuff on planet Earth), and conservatives (who find living on a space colony to be disgusting).

As the center of the Empire, it is also subject to diplomacy meetings and intergovernmental conventions between humans and extraterrestrials. 200 million years later, a group of insects which evolved from modern termites evolve into a Bronze Age civilization. Algae (food) will be herded from nearby desert creatures and water will be found deep underground in caves. Humans will have evolved into a non-corporeal form using mainly pure digital energy instead of human or cyborg bodies; leaving behind a mass network of "old-style" urban cities and "post-modern" arcologies behind. Unlike the human civilization of the future, this civilization will have many castes, and the ideal conditions to develop a stable democracy or even to form religions are unlikely to develop as scientific progress is greatly delayed due to an excess amount of workers and an exceedingly small amount of intellectuals and aristocracy.

Insects tend to rule with an absolute monarchy, and sentient insects will most likely be no exception. Someday, maybe insects will see this when exploring ruins of the civilization that the "giant humans" once inhabitated when they were dependent on a physical body for breathing, eating, drinking, and living in general. They will find the letters much too big to read with their little insect eyes, but they will create a Rosetta Stone to translate this message into their little insect language.