[Geminex]

In regards to Drac's thing:

Well, see, the fact that they eventually managed to develop high-tech doesn't mean that they aren't still being held back by pokemon. I'm guessing a lot of the stuff they have was developed before pokeballs came into use. And like I said, if they're already on a fairly high technological level, imagine what they'd be at without the detrimental influence of pokemon.

And yeah, fighting types can't lift as much as cranes. But they're perfect for "personal" lifting, the sort of stuff you'd need equipment like forklifts for. Or exosuits. The existence of fighting-type pokemon greatly slows the development of personal, strength-amplifying, everyday exosuits. There can be no greater crime.

Water pokemon for personal transport is probably screwing over the advancement of fast, personal naval travel. There's a ton of stuff that can be done with hydrodynamics to make boats really fucking fast, but it takes a while to develop. If people are preferring to hop on pokemon, there's no need for a passenger boat that travels fast (cause pokemon will travel faster, to begin with), and, as such, you're never gonna be developing ships that go just a hair under the speed of sound, cause the prerequisites just aren't there.

Generators... fair enough, pokemon aren't that useful in that area, so they're not holding humanity back too badly. But still, no magnezone would mean better generators in general. Not to mention that pokemon everywhere else means that there really isn't very much of a knowlege base, or engineers, or manufacturing techniques, or materials. If you want generators, you're gonna have to take care of all of that yourself.

More simply, it's pretty much like a tech tree in a strategy game. You need to research basic stuff to get the more advanced stuff. And you need the advanced stuff to get the uber-advanced stuff. And so on.

Pokemon offer free replacements to pretty much all of the basic techs, and quite a few of the advanced ones as well. Free replacements, in that you don't have to research the originals. But if you don't research the originals, you don't have the prerequisites for the advanced tech. And you don't even know that the advanced stuff exists, so why should you research the basic shit? You've got what you need after all. Right. RIGHT?

The only ones who'll try to get the normal tech are the ones who, for some reason, dislike pokemon. The ones who're irrational, and don't use the free replacements that everyone else does.
The Ones... The Ones that are like Impact. The biased, bigoted ones. The ones with irrational hatred, who take the hard path just because they hate the easy path for some reason.
In a stagnating, decadent pokemon world, it won't be the trainers who bring progress. Won't be the Jennys who advance society. Won't be the Joys who heal the world.
It'll be the Impacts. The ones who took the hard way...
That turned out to have been the only right way all along.
They are the Heroes, my friends. They are the champions of humanity, the ones who will pioneer the mysteries of the world, the universe, of nature. They are the Bringers of Light to society's Darkness.
And they are shunned. They are hated for their hatred. They die far, far too often.
But they persevere. And they survive. They succeed. They save the world, save humanity a thousand times over, throughout the decades, the centuries.
They are the Heroes.
And I think we owe them some acknowledgment.
They saved our pokemon world as it burnt them like witches for it.
And I think to truly honor that, we should consciously realize. That they succeeded. That we owe them. That They were right.
And that we should ALL try to be like Impact.
And if you refuse, then...
Well...
Then that's the question, isn't it? Which ones are the true Heroes? And which... are the Villains?

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There that's my bullshit quota for the day!
I might actually have Impact use that speech sometime, slightly modified.

Edit:
Menarker, why'd Renny quit PATCA? Your post made some hints, of course. You gonna reveal any more?