Elf-Human relationships are a bunch of special-cases in the local area of any given elf. There just aren't enough of them for most nations to have more than a few. (Elf-Fall has a fair bit of balkanization, so we're looking at something like 20-40 elves per earth nation, assuming they don't cluster or go into space)
In general, the Elves were quite high-tech at the height of their civilization; pushing the boundaries of what can plausibly done in hard sci-fi and a medium to small economic base. They would have little to no tech which isn't a logical extension of existing ideas though. Thier biggest strength is a handle on biology and cog-sci needed to actually do AIs and in-situ transhumanism.
I'm not certain how much tech proliferation the elves have been doing, but it's not as much as they could have. I think they might be slowly selling it off in exchange for places to start putting down roots on earth? Even after a few hundred years, they still see everything as being in flux; very few elves feel comfortable enough to start settling down and thinking about having kids yet. So I think a non-zero number of elves sold off the next 50-100 years of tech development and then basically built themselves a villain lair and hid in it? I'm not sure. That feel appropriate for the mood, though. The more cosmopolitan elves are probably thinking along the same lines as the aquaans from Harbormaster; give them the quality of life tech they clearly need, but don't just dump everything on them; their society is changing too fast already, and it'd be wrong to just ruin thier entire tech industry by turning it into a "salvage the elves tech-lore" industry.
As far as politcal response goes in the wider world: earth-bound nations are treating them like a valuable resource to be courted and hoarded. this includes the near-earth groups who are basically extension of earth-based powers. The wider interplanetary groups, well my timeline is still a mess, so this is all subject to revision, but spacers treat elves as true-fey (powerful, honorable, dangerous) and will happly trade with them, but try to stay out of their way. The synthesis were already ahead on the tech-front (and if I move out of the rocketpunk tech levels at any point, that'll probably be them doing it), so they're probably annoyed, in as much as they view competition as annoyance (Probably a mild worry that this might let earth-based powers think a war is viable). They'd happily invite any elves who wanted to live with them to do so; they'd probably have a better time of it than normal humans do. The Elf-fall was sufficiently long ago that I think the second-wave genetically engineered Venusian colonists were probably built of martian tech? I have no idea as of this moment whether the steeplejack's guild would adopt all the tech they could get or reject it as being unholy because it didn't originate with them. Probably the former, with a conservative minority saying the later?
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In general, the Elves were quite high-tech at the height of their civilization; pushing the boundaries of what can plausibly done in hard sci-fi and a medium to small economic base. They would have little to no tech which isn't a logical extension of existing ideas though. Thier biggest strength is a handle on biology and cog-sci needed to actually do AIs and in-situ transhumanism.
I'm not certain how much tech proliferation the elves have been doing, but it's not as much as they could have. I think they might be slowly selling it off in exchange for places to start putting down roots on earth? Even after a few hundred years, they still see everything as being in flux; very few elves feel comfortable enough to start settling down and thinking about having kids yet. So I think a non-zero number of elves sold off the next 50-100 years of tech development and then basically built themselves a villain lair and hid in it? I'm not sure. That feel appropriate for the mood, though. The more cosmopolitan elves are probably thinking along the same lines as the aquaans from Harbormaster; give them the quality of life tech they clearly need, but don't just dump everything on them; their society is changing too fast already, and it'd be wrong to just ruin thier entire tech industry by turning it into a "salvage the elves tech-lore" industry.
As far as politcal response goes in the wider world: earth-bound nations are treating them like a valuable resource to be courted and hoarded. this includes the near-earth groups who are basically extension of earth-based powers. The wider interplanetary groups, well my timeline is still a mess, so this is all subject to revision, but spacers treat elves as true-fey (powerful, honorable, dangerous) and will happly trade with them, but try to stay out of their way. The synthesis were already ahead on the tech-front (and if I move out of the rocketpunk tech levels at any point, that'll probably be them doing it), so they're probably annoyed, in as much as they view competition as annoyance (Probably a mild worry that this might let earth-based powers think a war is viable). They'd happily invite any elves who wanted to live with them to do so; they'd probably have a better time of it than normal humans do. The Elf-fall was sufficiently long ago that I think the second-wave genetically engineered Venusian colonists were probably built of martian tech? I have no idea as of this moment whether the steeplejack's guild would adopt all the tech they could get or reject it as being unholy because it didn't originate with them. Probably the former, with a conservative minority saying the later?