However, one civilization happened to get super lucky; their star actually survived and their orbit wasn't totally fucked.
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They formed an empire in this region of the supercluster and offer the decimated other species, including humans, roles as cloned servitors
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There are also several godlike/Cthulhu like entities in the cluster, mostly created as desperate attempts to survive the collision
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So humans have to decide if they're happy being clone servants to the one species that has a real population, or if they want t take chances
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Anyway, what IS the minimum number of surviving humans to plausibly repopulate?
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oooh, i know this one! coincidentally (?) the bare minimum is about level with our dunbar number at ~150
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Only 150 people? I thought it would have to be in the thousands at least?
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It's reasonable to 1 want a buffer 2 have a society that believes the number higher 3 have another reason a higher buffer number preferred
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The main issue is managing genetic diseases over deep time -- smaller the starting number the harder it is
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This is why IRL there's projects among communities like Ashkenazi Jews to have v detailed records to track diseases like Tay-Sachs
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Btw for this reason the 50/500 rule assumes a maximally diverse starting population
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The more consanguinity within the population -- i.e. families etc -- the bigger it needs to be obviously
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50 is big enough so that it's unlikely any one genetic disease can take over a whole generation if you're careful
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