Thaddeus went to a chair and sat. He gestured towards the only other chair in the room. I sat in the chair and waited for Thaddeus to explain.
"Now for a history lesson, which doesn't leave this room! Do I make myself clear?"
I nodded.
"It all began a very long time ago Roric. Before the first settlers arrived here on this world that we call home they came from another world and before that they came from the first world called Earth. They as a people advanced extremely in all areas of science and technology. The people of the first world, who the Holy Scriptures of the Creator were first given to began to rebel against God exceedingly. Our ancestors left the first world, Earth, to escape the growing corruption of the people around them. They left and settled on other worlds that the Creator had made. Eventually after much time had passed they returned to Earth fleeing from a war going on where they had settled on the other worlds. They found the Earth greatly changed. Sometime after they had left the Creator had destroyed the planet with a worldwide flood and only one family was saved to repopulate the planet. That family had advanced considerably in both numbers of people and technology since the great flood that had decimated the earth, and it was these people our ancestors found when they returned. The Earth was much different from when they had left it and our ancestors decided that it was for the best not to remain on Earth, but instead they left and came here and this is where they stayed. Before they left the Earth the second time they took with them the one thing of value that they found there, the Holy Scriptures that were inspired by the Spirit of our Creator. Sadly the integrity of the Holy Scriptures was lost to us in the conflict that arose among our people after they settled on this world, which is why we are left with just the tattered fragments that managed to survive the civil war that befell our people. As I said our ancestors were extremely advanced far and above what we are today, but they came to look at their proficiencies in technology as their greatest downfall. I'm not sure why they came to believe that, but some felt it very strongly while others did not, which is what caused the conflict among our peoples after settling on this world. In the conflict that arose our forefathers later to be known as the Valley Landers were able to seize all the forms of higher technology and subsequently destroyed all traces of the technology. Or so it was said at the time. While it is true that most of the technology was destroyed some was kept in case there was some need of it in the future. This place is the last repository of our ancestors advanced knowledge and it has been our family's greatest secret and responsibility ever since then. The responsibility of keeping the secret is now passed on to you as well as the paradox of our ancestors as to what to do with it. All of these books contain the knowledge of the greatness of our ancestors. These books hold many wondrous things Roric, cures to diseases, sciences that would make our lives easier and would allow us to live lives of luxury, advancements to give us victory in battle and so on. The weakness of any great concept of thought or science though Roric isn't the knowledge itself, but it is the way it is used by the individual in control of it. The result can be either good or evil, but it can affect many, if not everyone on that world or even farther out to other worlds. This is why I think our ancestors abandoned their technology. In hopes that forsaking it would lead to a society where a single person's error of spirit would not lead to the downfall of many by the selfish use of knowledge by one individual or by a few. Like I said it is a paradox. The one thing that we could really use and that would advance our society is also potentially the worst pit fall of all, if used wrongly. What do you think of all this Roric?"