So they tried to set up Utopia, but a bunch of stubborn facts showed up, and they couldn't wish them away?
No wonder they're depressed. :(
OK, this feels less patronising, i.e. more sincere.
There were hints in the early pages that the civilisation they left - and were attempting to recreate - was distinctly authoritarian. I wondered at the time if the Event was the result of human sabotage. Now I have a different hypothesis (see my recent comments about the locals being not as primitive as they appear).
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