As cool as they are, they're a stone-age people, My personal theory about the Na'vi and Pandora (which admittedly isn't fully formed quite yet) is that they weren't always a stone-age people - mostly based on the fact that they are just too cool and I have a hard time imagining a planet-wide organic internet just evolving. So, what I think is that at some point in the distant past, the ancestors of the Na'vi was a technologically sophisticated people, who had a particularly fine grasp of bio-engineering - and who then made the choice to turn their own planet into what it is today, perhaps turning their own race into something slightly different and perhaps modelled on their own equivalent of noble savages, and adjusting a number of other species on the planet to fit the world they were creating.
Admittedly, this is just a theory, and like I said, mostly based on the fact that the Na'vi are simply too cool, whatever else they might be.
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My personal theory about the Na'vi and Pandora (which admittedly isn't fully formed quite yet) is that they weren't always a stone-age people - mostly based on the fact that they are just too cool and I have a hard time imagining a planet-wide organic internet just evolving. So, what I think is that at some point in the distant past, the ancestors of the Na'vi was a technologically sophisticated people, who had a particularly fine grasp of bio-engineering - and who then made the choice to turn their own planet into what it is today, perhaps turning their own race into something slightly different and perhaps modelled on their own equivalent of noble savages, and adjusting a number of other species on the planet to fit the world they were creating.
Admittedly, this is just a theory, and like I said, mostly based on the fact that the Na'vi are simply too cool, whatever else they might be.