I can be fixed in etahi, erua, etoru (one, two, three in "Easter islandian", no joke!)
If the long-ears won the civil war over the short-ears their culture would have survived. It was like this...
I 1722 when Roggeveen discovered Easter Island, it had ca 2000 inhabitants. But there had probably been between 10 000 and 15 000 inhabitants only a century or two before.
Easter Island have (according to local folklore) been populated by two different peoples, the long-ears (Hanau eepe) & the short-ears (Hanau momoko). The long-ears being an energetic people who always wanted to work, and the short ears who didn't, but had to help build walls and statues anyway, this lead to jealousy and discontent amongst the short-ears.
The last idea the long-ears had was to rid the whole island of superfluous stones, so the whole island could be used for agriculture. They started at the eastern most point of the island (the Poike plateau). The short-ears had to throw all the superfluous rocks off the cliffs, so to this day there the Poike plateau is a nice green meadow without a single loose rock. But the rest of the island is strewn with red and black lava stonewalls and -blocks.
Now the short-ears had had enough!
The long-ears all fled to the Poike, where under their leader Iko that constructed a moat (3 km long) to separate the plateau from the rest of the island. The moat was filled with sticks and logs so that it would be a long burning wall In the event of an onslaught from the short-ears.
The Poike was lying there as a impenetrable fortress with vertical dives up to 200 meters at 3 sides. The long-ears felt rather safe, BUT one of the long-ears had a short-ear wife, her name being Moko Pingei. She lived with her husband up on the Poike plateau and she was a traitor, she let an army of short-ears across the moat when she had watch. So when the main short-ear force came to do battle, the long-ears ignited the firewall as planed, but then the army Moko Pingei had let across fell them in the back. Only 3 of the long-ears escaped, Ororoina was one, Vai was the other, and the name of the third have been lost in the mists of time. They hid in a cave until discovered, the short-ears then stabbed two of them to death with sharp sticks. The locals can to this day still point out the exact location of the cave. When the short-ears dragged the last surviving long-ear out of the cave he was shouting “orro, orro, orro” in his own language, witch none of the short-ears could understand.
Just put the POD where someone sees the army Moko Pingei let through,
and the crafty long-ears will crush the short-ears in two desiding battles
and VOILA! Easter island civilization is resurrected.
If the long-ears won the civil war over the short-ears their culture would have survived. It was like this...
I 1722 when Roggeveen discovered Easter Island, it had ca 2000 inhabitants. But there had probably been between 10 000 and 15 000 inhabitants only a century or two before.
Easter Island have (according to local folklore) been populated by two different peoples, the long-ears (Hanau eepe) & the short-ears (Hanau momoko). The long-ears being an energetic people who always wanted to work, and the short ears who didn't, but had to help build walls and statues anyway, this lead to jealousy and discontent amongst the short-ears.
The last idea the long-ears had was to rid the whole island of superfluous stones, so the whole island could be used for agriculture. They started at the eastern most point of the island (the Poike plateau). The short-ears had to throw all the superfluous rocks off the cliffs, so to this day there the Poike plateau is a nice green meadow without a single loose rock. But the rest of the island is strewn with red and black lava stonewalls and -blocks.
Now the short-ears had had enough!
The long-ears all fled to the Poike, where under their leader Iko that constructed a moat (3 km long) to separate the plateau from the rest of the island. The moat was filled with sticks and logs so that it would be a long burning wall In the event of an onslaught from the short-ears.
The Poike was lying there as a impenetrable fortress with vertical dives up to 200 meters at 3 sides. The long-ears felt rather safe, BUT one of the long-ears had a short-ear wife, her name being Moko Pingei. She lived with her husband up on the Poike plateau and she was a traitor, she let an army of short-ears across the moat when she had watch. So when the main short-ear force came to do battle, the long-ears ignited the firewall as planed, but then the army Moko Pingei had let across fell them in the back. Only 3 of the long-ears escaped, Ororoina was one, Vai was the other, and the name of the third have been lost in the mists of time. They hid in a cave until discovered, the short-ears then stabbed two of them to death with sharp sticks. The locals can to this day still point out the exact location of the cave. When the short-ears dragged the last surviving long-ear out of the cave he was shouting “orro, orro, orro” in his own language, witch none of the short-ears could understand.
Ororoina was allowed to live, he married a short-ear girl and their descendants are still living on Easter-island.
Okai that was how it was in OTL - for real !!!
Just put the POD where someone sees the army Moko Pingei let through,
and the crafty long-ears will crush the short-ears in two desiding battles
and VOILA! Easter island civilization is resurrected.
What happens then I dunno, but to survive a century or two at the most shouldn't be that hard.