Board Thread:Theories/@comment-26472215-20160222034906/@comment-26472215-20160223010715

EternalLocket wrote: Nitrate55 wrote: I understand that, but if SnK is based off of our future, and titans are some kind of biological WMD, then why is it that humans within the walls are only as militarily advanced as cannons and muskets? Surely if it's in the future, they'd have better weaponry, right?

No? When Titans showed up, they devoured as many people as they could get their hands on, and destroying stuff possibly unintentionally along the way. Thus the First King created the walls and "told" people to go within them. According to, if I'm not mistaken, Armin and possibly Kenny's grandfather, people weren't allowed to bring any sort of pre-Titans material within the walls. So basically the people within the walls are only as advanced as the weaponry they knew/remembered how to make. Not to mention the central military has been keeping people back for years technology-wise to avoid some sort of rebellion and break down of society. There's also the part where the government was modifying what textbooks they did have, so people would know and learn what they wanted them to learn. Basically the government tried really hard to keep people within the walls dumb and controllable. Alright then, fair enough...but I have one more question: if SnK is in the future then why is the world is so...empty? Back hundreds of years in time in our world (15th and 16th century), there were cities and towns that were highly urbanized for their time and highly populated but those were mostly just the important cities and capitals; besides them, there was nothing but barren, empty nature. They've shown how the world looks like in SnK outside of the walls and it was just like that, just untouched nature for miles around, not even the occaisonal village was to be seen. If SnK takes place in our future, obviously there'd be at least some highly urban, 21st century cities around that got destroyed by the titans, the scouts would have HAD to have come across a few on their expeditions. Except there aren't. Isn't that proof that the world SnK takes place in is in the past, presumebly the 15th or 16th century as I stated in my theory?