>>279700437
>They could have had FTL travel and biological immortality, but were too scared to change,
>but it would have also allowed humanity to cross from a Type I civilization into a Type II.
This crap again!? (>>279435079)
No, you dumb sack of shit, you stupid fucking moron. The terminus for Newtype "technology" is Instrumentality. It doesn't belong in the physical plane.
The absolute best scenario is the Dune scenario: humankind being ruled by a caste of espers.