[ WP ] It 's the year 3012 , create a world totally different from ours today , take into account Social , Economic , Political and Environmental changes


 
 The experiment did not fail. It did in fact proved that bootstrapped uplifting was on the galactic scale prior to hitting the evolutionary wall nearly impossible. While using this particular planetary society as a control group against direct intervention was thought as trivial from the experiments critics. It was seen as one of many disappointments. 
 
 Naturally occurring sentient life on a world was generally accepted as being a rare occurrence, and that to not intervene and uplift their societies was generally considered not only taboo, but morally wrong. Some of the other sovereign states in the galaxy take quite the opposite approach. And challenged the practice. To prevent strife and to find an acceptable answer to the question. A grouping of twelve worlds were selected and subsequently seeded with a genetically modified animal that would gain sapience based off the most successful of the spacefaring species. 
 
 With each of the experiment groups, all were perfectly blended into the native environments and were allowed to progress for a period of 50,000 years. At that point for all but two worlds, intervention began at different stages of development. Some immediately were uplifted from their hunter gather tribes, others at each increment of the Kardashev scale prior to type I status. While yet another group of worlds were given technological boosts at key points in their histories. One world simply had technology placed on their lands for them to reverse engineer and replicate. Another had members of their society genetically altered at birth to be a genius to further their world. The 5th world even had the base species lord over them as a religious figure guiding them when they approached crossroads. 
 
 Through out the millennia the two control worlds were completely ignored. To mitigate the risk for contamination, the control worlds were each placed in secluded portions of the galaxy and system wide dampening fields erected around their stars to prevent artificial transmissions and supra-luminal travel. Locked away and isolated they were to remain throughout the course of the experiment until all of the experimental groups reached type I that controls would be observed for the first time. 
 
 Seven of the experiment worlds reached their goal-marks under 200 years. The remaining two had suffered some setbacks. One world experienced a collapse of civilization, notably the world with the god-emperor base speices. It happened in the grand hall of atonement where the God-emperor observed capital trials for the city. The accused was psychologically damaged from the extensive use of lead and had murdered several dozen citizens. It was during the God-Emperor's annoucement of the punishment that the watershed event happened. 
 
 A suicide vest crudely constructed from explosives and farming equipment was detonated within the hall of atonement. It was a new weapon that had never been used. Violence on this world was unheard of as the city state kept a homostatic balance following the God-Emperor's leadership. So no one had thought to check the deranged man's body for an explosive when he showed up from his house arrest. Needless to say, the God-emperor's immortality was suddenly no more than burning pieces of torn red flesh intermixed with the blue blooded natives sparking a dark age that lasted 27,000 years as the base species authority and guidance was ignored by practice. 
 
 The second outlier in the experiment as a world that took to it's intervention in a unique way. This world was provided the encyclopedia galactica with a translation table of one of the dead native languages. This caused their society to worship the books and adopt a generational culture war for the rights to the knowledge. It became accepted practice for one's offspring to challenge the parents for rights of wealth, property, and intellect through trial by combat. This expanded to cities, nation-states, and even whole continents. The planet's development up the scale from 0 to 0.5 was on track until Culture # 18,985 discovered nuclear theory, in which Culture # 18986 promptly used to wipe the previous two generations off the face of their planet. Culture # 1A arising from the global inferno started off back at the stone age with the tools and knowledge seeded from past generations. Which point Culture # 16A scorched their planet again with nuclear tipped artillery shells making way for Culture # 1B. 
 
 The actual Encyclopedia while designed to survive the length of the experiment was lost inside of the planets lithosphere when Culture # 12,945C had laid claim to the planets Vulcan power facilities and insured their supremacy. Which Culture # 12,946C to slight to as their birthright was lost inside the planet, paving the way for Culture # 67D marking their achievement to type I status in a little over 36,000 years. The teams sent to welcome them to the galactic community found that shortly before arriving to the system, Culture # 69D had detonated a quantum buster on their moon to claim their birthright. This however resulted in complete ecological collapse as their shattered moon descended on their world boiling the oceans and liquifying the continents. 
 
 As for the two control worlds. Direct observations were finally allowed. The first control was discovered to be a complete wasteland scorched by nuclear fire and subsequent ecological collapse. The extinction event had happen 400 years prior, largest living creatures on the planet were insects. The reached the median development for first contact for the galaxy. Thus failing the experiment. 
 
 The second world however was utterly primitive. The start conditions where exactly the same. And yet it had taken nearly 50,000 years to reach beyond hunter-gatherer states. The only variable was the planet was considered a garden. More variety of life on all the others combined. Sampling the local inhabitants found genetically there were six species of sentient on the planets. And the surviving dominant was a mish mash of genetic drift from the control that was introduced. They were barbaric, instead of cooperating they out reproduced or destroyed one another. One emissary was sent to provide guidance, he was killed by a con artist and took the act across known world. He was subsequently killed and inspired others. Other parties in the galactic forum said this was contamination, however it was decided the rules were not broke as the contamination was immediately snuffed out. 
 
 A Dark Age came as the primary civilization collapsed costing the control an additional 600 years with the birth of rationalism saw an exponential growth in collective knowledge as the the civilization approached type 0.8. Disaster struck. Entranced with their new found technology, space craft stopped departing the world to explore the other planets in the system. The radio fading started going backward indicating the EM burst events that has happened on several worlds in the past where a civilization suddenly collapses back several steps in technology before the final collapse. 
 
 And one night, the city lights started to go out. Over the course of two weeks the lights of the world died. Radio emissions that spiked started to fade away completely now. Atmospheric, Oceanic, and ground traffic stopped. And cities which once shined brightly, were replaced with orange glow at night, and dull trails of black that followed the trade winds during the day. 
 
 It was later learned that a religious zeal took over, dividing, and lobotomizing their culture into stupidity. Global population crashed as plagues that were once kept at bay by science, massacred the populace. Climate change from an intensive industrialization, broke them. It was a fascinating observation as most worlds are snuffed out by nuclear fire. This one came close several times, but it was fear and sickiness that wiped them out. 
 
 Their world was marked as a failure, an observation drone was placed in orbit and for a thousand years, Earth was dead. 
 
 The surface of the drone, now pitted with micro impacts from orbital debris came to life from a set of radio emissions from the planet. It was a blind message out to the galaxy, saying they were still there and the tribes of humanity have finally united.
