[STM]

- The Proposal -

Oddworld is an enormous planet that holds so many species but look at how many are sentient, self aware and able to use tools and speak. There are civilisations of steef, grubbs, mudokons, sligs, glukkons, vykers and chronicclers to name a few but how has there been so many intelligent life forms? Perhaps the planet is extremely old but then, why do we not see gravity ports and amazing feats of technology, when you look at architecture, science of the vykers and other factors, I seem to think that oddworld is stuck in what would be our 18th to 20th centuries with the most revolutionary technology being their "Guardian Angel" TV screens...

- Hypothesis -

Oddworld saw a vast cataclysmic event that allowed the species to survive but a lot of the technology was lost, like the dark ages but on a grander scale.

Does anyone else have any ideas on this?