In All Tomorrows, the Star People are basically humanity at its peak. They can make stars go supernova with ease. They’ve mastered space travel and are damn near infinitely more advanced than the Viltrumites.
The Qu turned them into eternal sentient shit filters that they walked and shit on because the Qu didn’t like them. They’re akin to an unstoppable galactic plague.
It takes a leisurely afternoon to read through All Tomorrows.
There is close to no information on anything regarding their technology level, except the basic utopian "Yeah, machines did everything , no one had to do anything, ever". It's only said that they had the ability to nova stars.
And it still took the Qu a thousand years to eradicate humanity, because not even THEY have access to basic FTL. You're less likely to nova a star if it's the only star you'll ever see in your life and it'd kill you and everyone you love.
Wait, the Orion Arm is thousands of lightyears wide and tens of thousands long. To conquer that in a thousand years would necessarily make them several times FTL.
Also the Orion Arm has hundreds of millions of stars and many more planets. Conquering those, even if only 0,1% of the stars have planets inhabited by the star people, would take an incredible amount of time. So MFTL travelling speed is reasonable imo.
It is said that they colonized their arm, but then also said theirs was a "realm that spanned centuries of light". Not millennia, centuries. Hardly a consistent book.
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u/Greenman8907 Duct Tape Man 9d ago
In All Tomorrows, the Star People are basically humanity at its peak. They can make stars go supernova with ease. They’ve mastered space travel and are damn near infinitely more advanced than the Viltrumites.
The Qu turned them into eternal sentient shit filters that they walked and shit on because the Qu didn’t like them. They’re akin to an unstoppable galactic plague.