They originally planned to pass over Gunsmoke, as it was only barely habitable, but unfortunately one of the sapient genetically-engineered beings they were using as a power source chose that time to strike against humanity, causing the ships to crash on the planet's surface. Trigun: Project Seeds was a fleet of Generation Ships looking for a new planet after Earth got used up.Earl in My-Otome, while otherwise fitting this trope, at least remembers that the people and the Lost Technology came from Earth.Of course, the theory of panspermia, that the first bacteria were dropped on Earth from space, still enables a scientifically plausible "Lost Colony" in a far more general sense. And sometimes the old technology and genuine magic are used side by side.Īnd of course, it's always popular to reveal that Earth was really a lost colony and that Humanity Came From Space, though genetic evidence that humans and other Earth organisms are biologically related, all the way back to the first bacteria, has made this increasingly hard to sustain. Sometimes there is genuine supernatural magic happening, or something that can pass for it, and all advanced technology has been lost. Oftentimes whatever remains of the old technology will be mistaken for magic by the colonists' descendants.
Either way, not only do their descendants' politics, economics and culture regress to match their pre-Industrial Revolution technology level, they also forget that their ancestors ever came from another planet, making the story at first glance seem to be set in a pure fantasy world.
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