ok so I've been giving this some thought, maybe too much haha, but how much time is supposed to have passed between the Concrete v. Virtual war and the beginning of the game? Supposed to be ages right? And they were supposed to have given up on the cravers and bombed them into the stone age before the war was even done. But it just seems to me that an engineered super weapon like the cravers wouldn't have taken all those millenia to get back to the stars, or else would have depleted Husk and died of starvation long ago. idk, maybe they went into some kind of extended hibernation? It's been bothering me

Same thing here, after all, the Amoeba had time to devolve from endless, into single-celled life forms, to Amoeba again... so that'd probably be enough time for the Craver to either die or achieve space flight. (probably the former than the latter)

Husk's surface bombardment almost certainly destroyed its ecosystem, and its atmosphere along with it. Any surviving Craver society would have evolved to survive that kind of death and radiation, and colonies would have needed to be coastal in order to have a proper food source - i.e. no central colony for unity.

Don't forget that Cravers don't get along even among themselves. Splintered colonies would be waging constant war over resources with each other. Nobody said that all the Cravers gathered onto Husk were friendly with each other. With no networked communication and a world that's predominantly set in the Fallout universe (but much, MUCH worse), it would easily take hundreds of thousands of years to progress scientifically. Cravers were built for war, not science, and because they are so good at war, pretty much all of their time is spent on it and very little else.

In fact, the Haroshems were a kind of godsend to the Cravers, and are probably the reason why they haven't starved themselves to death. After enslaving that population, war over precious resources subsided just slightly enough to enable the Cravers to at least talk to each other. This was the start of a process that would destroy any outlying Craver colony not loyal to the Hive, and the beginning of what would later lead to the Cravers' first spacefaring ship. They didn't have the scientific expertise for it, but when they didn't have to worry about fighting for food, they finally found the time to reverse-engineer that ship and get off Husk.

hmmmm

gigabytemon wrote:

Husk's surface bombardment almost certainly destroyed its ecosystem, and its atmosphere along with it. Any surviving Craver society would have evolved to survive that kind of death and radiation, and colonies would have needed to be coastal in order to have a proper food source - i.e. no central colony for unity.

Don't forget that Cravers don't get along even among themselves. Splintered colonies would be waging constant war over resources with each other. Nobody said that all the Cravers gathered onto Husk were friendly with each other. With no networked communication and a world that's predominantly set in the Fallout universe (but much, MUCH worse), it would easily take hundreds of thousands of years to progress scientifically. Cravers were built for war, not science, and because they are so good at war, pretty much all of their time is spent on it and very little else.

In fact, the Haroshems were a kind of godsend to the Cravers, and are probably the reason why they haven't starved themselves to death. After enslaving that population, war over precious resources subsided just slightly enough to enable the Cravers to at least talk to each other. This was the start of a process that would destroy any outlying Craver colony not loyal to the Hive, and the beginning of what would later lead to the Cravers' first spacefaring ship. They didn't have the scientific expertise for it, but when they didn't have to worry about fighting for food, they finally found the time to reverse-engineer that ship and get off Husk.

Gigabytemon has the most accurate explanation. Also, the Cravers didn't have any technology that the Endless purposefully left behind (all of their tech comes from starship crashes and other species unfortunately landing). They were practically dropped off there with nothing. And so a trip back the stars would be even harder. Furthermore, only a fraction of Craver society is intelligent and able to think (the Bishops) which makes it even more difficult.