User blog comment:Mr.Robbo/Darned FTL!/@comment-1743498-20130704151204/@comment-5135903-20130705082725

Remember: Micro-wormholes are a lot easier to construct than both conventional wormholes and warp drives. So if anything the proliferation of micro-wormholes in GC2 would represent a reduction in technological advancement.

Also, would GC2 necessarily be more advanced? Civilisations can become less sophisticated just as easily as they become more sophisticated. As a civilisation becomes more advanced it tends to become more complex and therefore more prone to collapse. Some people even think that intelligence and civilisation is just a (relatively) short phase to allow life to migrate off of the home planet (and therefore increase chances of survival).

Unlike human civilisations, galactic civilisations start millions, even billions, of years apart, so at any one time there would exist everything from primitive to god-like civilisations throughout a galaxy.