Pitch your idea for a unique space opera setting.
>>219556348it turns out the stars are actually giant women and supernovas are basically just cosmic tribbingonly one brave adventurer has the gumption to the do the impossible and try to seduce the starshe'll get his dick wet or die trying
>>219556348Everywhere humans go, the worlds are already terraformed and the locals are just different chromatic space babes because humans already terraformed the entire galaxy millions of years before the current setting.
>>219556612er... sauce?
>>219556348regular space opera but humans are space indians
>>219556348Millions of humans are saved from extinction by aliens and kept in suspended animation for trillions of years and humans are accidentally awakened to find themselves in a dying Universe almost entirely alone.
>>219556348people land on a planet, an angry alien gets on the ship and starts killing everyone... oh wait, that's the plot of all of the Alien movies. they all have the exact same plot. nevermind
>>219556348There are absolutely no black people, anywhere.
>>219556612>>2195566852nd thisshe seems to be in trouble, I just wanna make sure her story ends well
>>219556612When I was a kid, I read a sci-fi novel about a group of humans who had been chilling on some alien planet for 4 million years while a supercomputer oversaw their population to make sure they didn't evolve outside of "human" baseline, because it was all part of some long-term plan to retake the galaxy from aliens but the plan called for a 4-million year buildup and the acting agents had to be human at the end of the 4 million years. The main character's dad always made him take ice-cold showers to make him "tougher" because he was the "chosen-by-the-AI savior of humanity" character that was supposed to be the expedition leader or something.That's really all I remember but this post made me think about it.
>>219556348In the grimdark darkness of the future, mankind has declined. A great war killed off most of the fighting men, and the rest scattered across the galaxy. MC's freelancer ship got stuck in space with dead thrusters and was forced into suspended animation for a thousand years. Eventually a giantic mothership found him and woke him up. The giant ship was manned by all female clones, genespliced for combat and also recovery of the scattered humans. When they're not training onboard in VR, they're doing "maintenance" by sucking dicks of males they rescued. To get back home, MC finds out they have to fight their way through a hostile region full of bug aliens who kill people by sucking up their ero energy, turning them into autistic incels.The anime is called LEGEND OF THE GALACTICAL ANGELS!
>>219556348Star Trek: Century 25Think Star Trek: The Next, Next Generation. We follow the new crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701H as they seek out new life, new civilizations, etc., etc. Kurtzman Trek never happened. It was just a bad dream had by someone with a Ceti eel in their head. Are there angst ridden, emotionally unstable, disrespectful, zoomer-type crew members? No, they would have washed out of the service, and are hopefully receiving psychiatric drugs developed on Elba II.Are there LGBTXYZPDQ crew members? Sure, they're everywhere... just like starship restrooms. They exist, but we don't need to see them.The focus of the show is a wacky new thing called "science fiction".
>>219556957>>219557632Space Opera. everyone is japanese with token americans.
>>219556348I have several. One is that aliens developed non-Einsteinian FTL travel based on local stellar density, thus it is only practical and timely to travel alongside the "highways" of the galactic spiral arms, which is part of the reason Earth got sidetracked by the rest of the galaxy's civilizations. Humans tried brute-forcing lightspeed through relativistic drives but the closer they got to C the increased time dilation actually caused them to literally arrive at their destination before they left. This results in a human/alien first contact war where both sides were technically attacked by the other in an unprovoked strike: from Earth's perspective, the aliens struck first, but when humanity sent a response force (via ships traveling at .999999c) to invade, it went back in time by a few months and attacked a planet which was not yet even aware of Earth's existence, thus giving the aliens a reason to attack earth in the first place (which was sent by the normal FTL method) Additionally, the further the distance traveled with the Einsteinian method, the further back in time they go, resulting in WH40K-esque cargo cult ancient human civilizations on random planets that revere Earth with religious fervor that have been developing on their planets for thousands of years despite, from Earth's perspective, not having left yet.
>>219560559>non-Einsteinian FTL travel based on local stellar densitystopped reading therewhy do you talk like this??
>>219560740oh sorry, let me put it in a lingo you can understand>I BYPASSED THE COMPRESSOR
>>219560740>Dear ChatGPT, how do we make a spaceship that goes faster than light?I'm sorry, it doesn't look like we can do this in accordance with Einstein's laws of physics.>But ChatGPT, what if we developed spaceships that bypass Einstein's laws of physics to go faster than light?Wow, let me correct myself, you're so right! Non-Einsteinian FTL travel is thing that we not only CAN do but absolutely SHOULD do! And let me just say, you're very smart and clever and handsome for figuring it out! It's not just a great idea-- though it is that-- it's a brilliant idea!
>>219561001wait a minute, are you seriously angry that I made-up a fictive means of traveling faster than light to facilitate a space opera?that can't possibly be what I'm reading, no one could be that idiotically pretentious
>>219556348It's not a developed setting but the concept of space being infinite always fascinates me. Like you could chase someone into it forever, and maybe you would encounter strange physics or something the further out you get. I guess it would be sort of fantasy/sci-fi if you messed with that too much. Just something that makes use of the idea of infinite space, not just a few trillion light years or whatever it is. I haven't thought this through lol.
>>219561087Not only that, but by mocking him, you've outed yourself as a jeet... SAAR!
Yes
Do space opera settings even have a 'hook'
>>219563292Do contemporary settings even have a 'hook'?
>>219556348Humans meet the probes of an alien civilization containing instructions on how to construct advanced space faring and communications technology. Unfortunately, humanity learns that the alien civilization has long since become extinct at the hands of a hostile assimilating hive mind race of aliens who have now become aware of the human race. But, there also exists an alliance of aliens that have resisted assimilation, although their numbers combined are roughly half the amount as spacefaring humanity. Humanity finds itself as the most technologically advanced and material abundant civilization and such is appointed leader of the alien alliance, although not to all the races liking, poised to lead the fight against the hive mind.
>>219556348>Some guy discovers a really awesome canyon on an alien planet he is exploring >Uploads it to the space internet>No one gives a shit because literally everyone is discovering equally cool shit all over the galaxy all the time>Some space thot gets triple the updoots for doing a space suit try on but doesn't actually leave earth
>>219563852>Some space thot gets triple the updoots for doing a space suit try on but doesn't actually leave earthlol
>>219563379Science fiction stories can have a hook but specifically space operas do not because they're so wide ranging
>>219563943Can't every space opera issue/novella/episode/story have a different hook?
>>219556348Why would I do that on 4chan?
>>219556348Race Wars in SpaceNiggers on Uranus
>>219556348I don't have an original idea, I just want to see a reasonably faithful adaptation of the Foundation trilogy but with a 1930s-40s art deco/streamline/atompunk aesthetic. Please god, let it happen before I die.
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>>219557524>franchiseIt's just 1 + 2 (theatrical)
>>219556424How do you get you dick wet with a star?
>>219556612I approve thisI would watch/read/playI would also like to live there
>>219568122That would be the kinoest kino to ever kino.
>>219568122You will get world peace and a 200% penis growth before that, Anon.
>>219564704Entertainment is post scarcity.
>>219556348I've been thinking about a setting where humans have been fighting a war with an alien empire after they suddenly arrived and conquered two outlying colonies, the war has been a stalemate for decades after and to break the stalemate and save a countless pilots from dying unnecessary deaths humanity has developed a new kind of drone technology where drones are piloted remotely from a carrier in the back of a fleet.Still completely reliant on human skill, the pilots feel as if they're actually there but if the drone is destroyed none of the experience is lost forever.To facilitate finding appropriate pilots for a number of brand new ace squadrons the military has secretly put out a new kind of console and piloting videogame kind of like competitive Ace Combat and would choose from the top ranking players to undergo enhanced training and deployment to the hottest warzones.That's as far as I got, I got nothing else yet.
Some space fantasy based on how people from the 16th century saw space>You can go to different planets by flying>No notion of the void of space>All the planets, gas giants and stars have good solid ground and civilisations on them
Dark matter turns out to be memories of previous events, like imprints in spacetime of previous activity. Individually they're infinitesmly small but accumulating over billions of years for trillions of events, it's become the quantity that we see today.Anyway some aliens find a way to use it or some shit
>>219559860>Kurtzman Trek never happened. It was just a bad dream had by someone with a Ceti eel in their head.lolcan we get a bonus scene where a Kurtzman stand in shots himself like Chekov's captain?>TXYZPDQStar Trek science would have already cured that shit either way.I endorse this project
Adapt Christopher Paolini's Fractalverse novels.
>>219568122You can easily do that now with AI.You don't have to rely on institutions.You are more powerful than the institutions.
>>219560559(pretending for a moment that you can go back in time or reach c) you don't go back in time at 0.999999999999 c, you start to go backward at 1+
>>219561087>>219560880I think he means you are her to sell your synopsis, not your flavor or technobabble
>>219561172The first problem I see is, while fascinating to think about it in a philosophical way... does you your story get to any point... at some point?Or it's just characters looking at the infinity and mumbling about infinity? (which can be still interesting, but very very hard to pull off)
>>219556348A young teen stows away on visiting spacecraft after an argument with his father, a king, and traveles to a neighboring star where he grows up into a resilient young man. One day, he decides to return to his home planet to make amends. However he is completely unaware of time dilation and his two trips have cost him 100s of years on his homeworld. He arrives to see a completely different, crueler society and he discovers the current ruling family has murdered his not long after he left and now rule with an iron fist. So he sets out for revenge and to reclaim his birthright from the royal family now hunting him.
>>219577985How can he live in a world where space travel is common and routine, yet not know about time dilation?
>>219563675>Humans meet the probes of an alien civilization containing instructions on how to construct advanced space faring and communications technology. Unfortunately, humanity learns that the alien civilization has long since become extinct at the hands of a hostile assimilating hive mind race of aliens who have now become aware of the human race.I'm intrigued until this point. Such a nice premise.The rest makes it more generic imoIf you don't mind here's my alternative. 1st species knows it's doomed and sends the probe as a warning about the hive species, as a proof of their existence and hoping to provide a chance to prevent invasion of other inhabited planets. The hive, by assimilating their tech and knowledge will inevitably know about the existence of planets the probe species knew as promising for life hosting, therefore they were always going to expand there next after the conquest. Now the hive is chasing the same route of the probe with an assimilating probe (?), pointed to Earth, but now Earth also has a chance: it builds a "last hope starship" hoping to intercept the hive probe in the void between galactic arms, which is a risky jump even for the hive species. If the humans win, the hive will never know what happened to the probe (because there are too few material resources on the newly conquered planed to produce more than few massive hive probes to retry or whatever) and this will postpone the menace by centuries/millennia
>>219577609>You can easily do that now with AI.lmao
>>219556348So the setting is pretty bland, humans from earth seeded the galaxy, accelerated evolution triggered on colonists to survive on harsher planets/biomes. There is no earthican empire just planets that trade etc. One planet in the deep galaxy that has its humans evolved to be fairly more hairy (planet of the apes tier but more human looking) to survive the cold gets a catastrophic event. You follow the daughter of a diplomat of that planet that tries to help evacuate as many people as possible but its hard to find space for the population, not many planets want to take in these people. They are called “monkeys” demeaningly. Our monkeyfu protagonist barely escapes death and tries to establish a living area on a different planet but they keep running into problems. Monkeyfu shenanigans.Other main focus is the straight white male that is a trader like person or smuggling pirate. Something in between. Falls in love with monkeyfu. Energy crisis dynamics. Space faring tech is done making microscopic artificial planet cores. More and more planets are getting catastrophic events and there is a lot of tension. We see the rise of factions/smaller planet empires fighting for control of their sectors.Pretty basic shit but with current year analogies just like basically every scifi of its time did.
>>219563675>Humans meet the probes of an alien civilization containing instructions on how to construct advanced space faring and communications technology. Unfortunately, humanity learns that the alien civilization has long since become extinctI like the idea of there being a real optimism about meeting intelligent aliens that gets absolutely crushed when it turns out they're all gone
>>219577308>Still completely reliant on human skill, the pilots feel as if they're actually there but if the drone is destroyed none of the experience is lost forever.Would that lead to a very boring, or at least very thematically empty, scenario?Responsibility in that kind of war is completely removed, therefore there is no way to discuss any theme regarding war and people. It's as interesting as reading about a pvp online game.I mean I can see the point of making a short story discussing this specific point, but beyond that...
>>219577529That's not a synopsis, that's a technobabble sample>Anyway some aliens find a way to use it or some shitI like this, especially the last part
>>219577582>Facialverse novels
what if there was a alien who farted all the time and he couldn't stop farting no matter what
>>219577985What this anon said >>219578047BUT I'm willing to see it realized if you include an incest subplot
>>219556348Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg Empire manage to get the space somehow long pointless border wars continue in space. MC is an Uc Beyi (marcher lord) of the Ottoman Empire.
>>219578294This is just a blatant excuse to get your unsahved/haire women fix, fetishist
>>219578438Saar Farts?
>>219578451Make it about Automan Empire VS Hasbro Empire and you are onto something
>>219557524Where is deacon = mountain?
>>219578047He's a rich kid. They're fucking stupid because they don't interact with the world around them normally.
>>219578251As easy as generating a Lego Shahed drone, it turns out.
>>219578415They're kino anon, there's just two, you should give 'em a read.
>>219578622I feel like in that kind of setting it'd be basic knowledge.
Deep Space Travel AI Robots Leave Earth in Life Ships That Bring life to Dead Planets Terraform Them and Grow Human and Plant and Animal Life Inside Them After The planet is Terraformed or lifeless and Pre Build Cities & Landscapes for Humans to live in and also scientific value like as in mars since the core is dead would require magnetic rail Deivice that wraps around the entire planet beaming a highly condensed field beamed at the core to make it volcanic again and No Transphelia or forced Homophelia and some Hot Young Underage Girls But of course we must have a War against stuff space battles against other types of civilizations or Re-Programmed bot worlds
>>219578816Your capitalization of words is absolutely psychotic.
>>219578451The idea that a medieval or pre-digital age empire somehow discovers rocket fuel and sends people to space is quite cool
It's like two 'earths' in the same solar system and one of them develops space travel before the other
>>219578972Also the space fairing planet is like gay and peaceful but the other more technologically advanced planet is in a constant state of war with itself
>>219578894it's Reverse of Mental Dingy Useless Writings of Nothingness
>>219578438Based and rygelpilled
>>219579807Fake and Gay Nothing Pilled No brained New Infiltration Fag
>>219579960Fine, don't join the fartscape. Your loss.
>>219578488No the monkeyfu sheds her hair in the long run which makes the white human protag realize her hidden beauty
>>219579807>>219580495Based>>219579960Cringe
>>219578816Ok. That's your cgi intro. But what's the story about?
>>219581891Like reverse Earth Girls Are Easy?Ok, in that case I'm still on board
>>219578773If his world has kings, it's a safe bet they're a retrogressed colony with limited contact and understanding of the way things work, maybe a slow-boat colony just getting reintegrated into the galactic mainstream or even a contact situation with them.
>>219556348Humans build a supramundane shell world around a hot gas giant. One day, something starts pounding on the inner surface.
>>219578391Okay I try againDark matter are memories of events in the universe. All action and reaction leave an imprint in spacetime. Individually, each imprint is infinitesmly small, but after billions of years dark matter has become the significant majority of the universes mass.Humanity discovers alien technology that shows how to read dark matter. Lost histories are accessible, extinct civilisations are rediscovered, ancient stellar catastrophes are witnessed. One scientist uncovers the memories of an ancient war spanning the galaxy, and evidence an apocalyptic event occurred within the solar system. Heading to the location (like Jupiter) they see the wake of a cosmic force that moves through the galaxy, due to return to the solar system. Humans have to prepare for a threat they don't understand, gaining evidence from what they can uncover within the memories of dark matter
>>219556348Earth
>>219582561I don't think that's how it would work.If you lose understanding of how space works, you lose the ability to travel though it, repair and build the tech, etc...It's like knowing fire but forgetting it burns
>>219556348In an alternate timeline where the 19th and early 20th century played out differently, monarchies, aristocracy, empires, traditional values and aesthetics etc. remain in place into the modern era, so the map of the world and political systems are basically unchanged from their pre-World War 1 state in the 22nd century where it takes place. This world has entered the space age, FTL travel is invented, and so on, and the monarchies and empires of the world compete for space supremacy, technology, and colonizable planets. The story could follow a starship crew as they explore the galaxy, with a big focus also on the politics of this world, the tension between the demands of a modern technological world and these old-world systems and values, revolutions, etc.
>>219582657The retard who built it sealed the last door while standing on the wrong side?
>>219582657Sounds super mundane that
>>219582946So like a Civ playthrough
>>219582539Thanks! I hope to one day bring the scenario to life, but with my lack of perseverance and dozens of side projects the chances are slim.
>>219582946Napoleonic era style uniforms on spaceships seem dank, but not sure what the rest of the aesthetic would look like.
>>219556348I created a fictional setting for a sci-fi world but I don't want to tell you about it because it's embarrassing and autistic
>>219582904So space-time, once imprinted with "events happening" decade into some sort of weird (dark)matter, which still store those data. And memories of remote places and times are accessible through alien tech as form of visions, maybe as nitid as they are 'important'I like this concept.I also like the idea of uncovering evidence of a recurring tragedy/catastrophe/event that also happens to happen again soon. This part reminds me a lot of The Engines of God.Maybe it could be improved by circumventing the part where humans discover the tech by themselves, or find alien tech, unless it's important to the story. It looks like an introduction that would span 50% of the story before anything in the present happens. DunnoThe hart part now is defining what actually happens, what's the threat, and what kind of story follows who and what. At this point can still be literally anything and the opposite.BUT I'm personally intrigued so far
>>219582945Yes, just so. they lose it, but others don't. Make them a degenerate pre/post FTL colony in the process of being re-contacted by the FTL galactic community at large. Or just make the kid a primitive alien.
>>219582946I feel like a setting like this should completely avoid explaining why things are still are they were in 19th and early 20th centuries and just embrace it from the get go, may just wasting one phrase at the beginning just saying that.Any kind of further reasoning would invite questions you will never have answers for.
>>219583286I feel you.Good luck
>>219583471Now we need to hear about it.Spit it out, faggot
>>219583645The Central Powers winning WW1, or WW1 not happening, already takes care of a big chunk of it.
Earth 2.0 made up of colonists who left Earth when there was a split between AI and anti-AI people. But it's been thousands of years and now Earth 2.0 is once again re-creating AI, when they are contacted by omnipotent AI/human race telling them to stop/schism/or something worse.
>>219583734fair enough
>>219583783Okay Battlestar Galactica
>>219583783the original schism wouldn't happen unless something huge happened, like the birth of a godlike AI who wanted to merge with humans as a collective entity and then leave to explore the universe or something like that.So we have Humanity and AI-manity of two different distant planetsThe rest really depends of what kind of "something worse" you want to implement. Without defining that you don't have a story
>>219583480Some thoughts. The threat is a cosmic force that can erase dark matter. That's why it appears as a "wake", you can see where it went as there's gaps but you can't see what it did.It appears to move towards places in the galaxy that have reached a critical mass and "resets" them by erasing the dark matter. In reality it's the lingering weapon used to end the ancient galactic war. One side created it to destroy the other, but they couldn't control it. Perhaps humanity is safe so long as they don't draw it's attention. But that's a risk.There could be loads of stories under this premise. >space historians uncovering stories from the ancient war, including potential survival strategies or alternative weapons>finding warnings from the past within dark matter>discovering why it visited the solar system the first time and whether humanity's activity is attracting it back>the question of what actually happens when it visits, does erasing dark matter and the history of what happened there actually harm those in the present, or maybe they ascend somewhere else - so some people try and summon it
hyperion cantos
>>219584116I like where this is going but there is a big hole.Why is it bad that this memory-matter is erased by the "awakener"? I mean, besides being the equivalent of book burning? How is that a menace for anyone? Also no matter how much it messes with memories, there would still be infinite more left in the universe.Why does this weapon Also I would prefer for the Awakener to have some reason to destroy memories and not just 'it just happens to do this bad thing to harness energy and shoot planet busting shots'Maybe the Awakener was not a weapon but machine meant to harvest memory-matter on a massive scale as part of the memory-matter reading process at the foundation of the setting. It was used by a species/group/Ai-collective whatever for scientific purposes, they were historians and wanted to learn about the universe.At some point the machine malfunctioned or was sabotaged or became aware (The Awakener awakened) or something and it started doing an excess of a good job, to the point of "wanting" or maybe mistaking events crystallizing right now into something valid targets, therefore it "ingest data" from any still living civilization big/advanced/noisy enough to cause a blip on its radars, which already happened with the original Alien Historians a gorillion years ago.
>>219583701It is set 500-2000 years in the future and takes ideas from Oswald Spengler about rising and falling civilisations. I make up a history for earth in those missing 500 years, for example Europe unifies into one political entity, and Europe, along with the rest of the earth powers manufactures space fleets for military, colonisation, exploration and science and so and so. These earth empires or powers eventually collapse politically and now it is space anarchy divided in many ways, such as ideologically, ethnically, culturally, and time and space. Many colonies become sovereign either out of neglect or by political will. Even earth powers fleets defect to smaller new powers, become pirates or renegades. Human civilisation has a massive growth, and the bubble bursts. It cannot be managed. It can not be sustained. It cannot be maintained. Many colonies, especially mining and agricultural colonies become isolated and lack technicians and scientists to produce the tech necessary to keep their space fairing status and in some cases over the course of centuries revert to a primitive existence and even forget who they are or where they came from, because the colony was made up of simple people and their manegerial class abandoned them. In this universe, Earth after it's space age, when it all goes bust loses most of it's capability for space exploration, for 100's of yearsThere is an alien component to it but it is much lesser and obscure. There is alien artefacts of a long lost alien civilisation. They are presumed extinct. And it is a great mystery. And artefacts are rare. Also there could be a colony that become sort of like the Vanu of Planetside maybe, that would be fun. Fanatic egg-heads. But the alien part will never be a big thingIt's too big to talk about really
>>219584492>Maybe the Awakener was not a weapon but machine meant to harvest memory-matter on a massive scale as part of the memory-matter reading process at the foundation of the setting. It was used by a species/group/Ai-collective whatever for scientific purposes, they were historians and wanted to learn about the universe.>At some point the machine malfunctioned or was sabotaged or became aware (The Awakener awakened) or something and it started doing an excess of a good job, to the point of "wanting" or maybe mistaking events crystallizing right now into something valid targets, therefore it "ingest data" from any still living civilization big/advanced/noisy enough to cause a blip on its radars, which already happened with the original Alien Historians a gorillion years ago.Yes this sounds much better than what I came up with.I think the question of whether or not it's visit is an existential threat or not is a key feature of the lore, some factions fear its arrival and implied destruction, insisting humanity halt development to not be a target - whereas other factions believe they have evidence that it can be survived, and seek "survivors" to prove it. The challenge of course it that it consumes the memories of where it's been so neither faction can say with certainty what the result is
>>219584649The premise sounds interesting.Thank you for the effort
>>219584761Cont. 3 factionsHiders - believe visibility invites erasure, so want to halt progress and suppress high-energy activitySeekers - Cosmic archaeologists that want to understand the Awakener, decode dark matter and find survivors Summoners - want to attract the Awakener, believe it will lead to ascensionStories naturally focus on the Seekers though all 3 could be correctDark Matter is a record of causality, it is created during events, so perhaps there's a story involving the implications of erasing causality
>>219584761>I think the question of whether or not it's visit is an existential threat or not is a key feature of the lore, some factions fear its arrival and implied destruction, insisting humanity halt development to not be a target - whereas other factions believe they have evidence that it can be survived, and seek "survivors" to prove it. The challenge of course it that it consumes the memories of where it's been so neither faction can say with certainty what the result isI like this a lot.It turns the story, or at least a good chunk of it, into an existential debate and possibly, in some ways, an "archaeological detective story in space", instead of simply a desperate last mission to stop a menace from outer space (which can still be part of the story and it's not unwelcome)I have no idea about how to ultimately solve (or avoid solving) the menace itself, since the possibilities may vary a lot based on what kind of lore, technology and archaeological evidences would define the setting, but I'm very satisfied by this idea for a storyGood brainstorming sessionThank you anon
>>219585154I'm loving this>so perhaps there's a story involving the implications of erasing causalitynot sure I would go there. It would involve time travel and time paradoxes, and I feel the premise is already well defined and complex enough as it currently is
>>219585331>>219585234What I'm thinking as a resolution builds on what anon said>machine meant to harvest memory-matter on a massive scale as part of the memory-matter reading process>It was used by a species/group/Ai-collective for scientific purposes, they were historians and wanted to learn about the universeSo when it returns to the solar system to harvest the dark matter data, humans "destabilise" the dark matter first through a technology they've learned through studying dark matter memories (like creating a massive cosmic scale energy event, but in a higher dimension so reality is rewritten but not the memory of it). When the Awakener returns it does a partial erasure, due to the destabilisation it's presumably thinking it's completed the harvesting, or perhaps put off by the incomplete system. That partial erasure destabilises the real matter in the solar system (due to matter / dark matter imbalance)... and then something to do with extinction / bare survival but with some positives, like humanity surviving in stable pockets with new knowledge gained from the Awakener's return. All 3 factions are partly correct, the Hiders were right that the Awakener was attracted back by humanity and it was costly, the Seekers were correct that you could understand and survive by destabilising the dark matter first, and the Summoners were right that it altered humanity, some think for the better with the new knowledge gained.
>>219556348>uniqueThe problem here is that most of these ideas exist out there in the extensive library of science fiction writing that continues to be ignored because they need to do the same franchises or pop culture stuff.Like look at the concepts in shit like Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge (a novella). Alien archaelogists studying humanity's supposed extinction, looking at their rise and fall learning about the cruelty of humanity. How humans were cruel even before the wreaked havoc on the galaxy. You could easily take concepts from that and develop something alright with it.
>>219556348what are we, your chatgpt? y'all be posting in a unpaid intern thread
>>219557524So the alien was already on the mural in Prometheus in the chamber with the black goo which the set designers were told was meant to resemble a Cathedral for religious significance. So the alien pre-dated David.I always liked the theory that, rather than the Engineers making the alien the Engineers found a mostly dead universe, found the aliens (super adaptable form of life) and those aliens became the back bone of their biological engineer tech and took on quasi religious positions. Because the universe was mostly dead they decided to use their technology to seed life. Romulus having black goo type shit extracted from facehuggers feels like this might make sense.
>>219586109>me on the rightalso>she has hard nips
>>219583338>Napoleonic era style uniforms on spaceships seem dank, but not sure what the rest of the aesthetic would look like.He's literally just describing Space 1899.
>>219568122You will never get either a faithful Foundation adaptation or the old timey futurism style.
>>219577636it's fiction THOUGHI'm already making a mockery of established human science by suggesting that there's a way to exceed the speed of light, so I don't see why I can't abuse the concept of relativistic time dilation for the same purpose that Gene Roddenberry did when he had the Enterprise slingshot around the sun to go back in time>>219577681Synopsis: a few hundred years into the future (well after that time-war that set up the setting), Earth has wormed its way into a prestigious and cliquish galactic society by piggybacking on the social capital of an ancient and decrepit alien reptilian empire (a "Sick Man of Europe"), which legally considers humanity one of its suzerain client races but which in actuality is cripplingly dependent on Earth's technological and economic dynamism in order to sustain itself, permitting humanity vast social and political capital. Consequently, this alien empire is the only shield humanity has when it's discovered that, due to the time dilation shenanigans I previous established, they have spread throughout the galaxy like a pest, with human civilizations thousands of years old stemming from colony ships that are supposedly still in transit popping up at random locations throughout the galaxy. The arch-villains are a race of immensely powerful silicon-based lifeforms, living mountains shaped like bacteriophages, who consider themselves to be the godlike arbiters of what is and isn't allowed to live, and the "emperor" of one of these backwards petty human cargo-cult kingdoms that the Earth federation is trying to tardwrangle holds the key to undermining their insidious plans.
>>219586394>AI, please train yourself on 1930s futurism movies, including modern recreations like Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, and use the style to create a Foundation movieYou lack vision.
>>219585999Seriously. Like you want historical stuff in space? Peirs Anthony tried to do a semi-educational historical sci-fi book series. Never got off the ground past the first one though. Takes place in a Pokemon World future where society revolves around a real-time LARP called The Game, covering various time periods and locales, transposed across other worlds. One player gets the bright idea to cheat and get the inside track by timenapping an actual historical person. Hijinks ensue. This one covers proto-Scythia but the idea was to do different books for different periods played within The Game.
>>219576897If there are fire stars why can't there be water stars?
>>219556348I would love to see a transhumanist-heavy space opera.You can still have near-baseline humans for the audience to identify with, take something like this>Bunch of generation ships are sent to different stars, as a way to expand humanity around the stars (maybe to save them from whatever)>The trip takes over a milennia, but it doesn't matter>One of these stars have multiple habitable planets. For example by having a gas giant with a bunch of satellites in the Goldilock zone.>Each of these planets is seeded by a ship sent by a different country, so you get some cultural drama>They each rebuild civilisation, then slowly get in contact with each other, first through radio waves and later by sending ships to each other>Then something from outside the stellar system arrive>But it's not alien.>Turns out mankind didn't get extinct in the meantime. Through genetic engineering and cybernetics, they kept evolving towards ever more twisted forms. Their present form is a monstrous and uncanny parody of humanity, both in shape and in mind.>They are not even here to destroy the remains of baseline humanity, they just don't see why they would let the real estate go to waste by leaving it to quaint Neanderthals, but after taking over they will probably just leave some of them on the space equivalent of Sentinel Island for study. Maybe keep some of them for fun or research, at the same time.
>>219587003>you lack vision>"AI, do this for me"
>>219588204AI can't move goalposts.
>>219588145To thicken the plot for future seasons:>Baseline human civilisation is infiltrated by cults which are brainwashed by posthuman memes, they modify their bodies and minds with fucked up cybernetics. Think something looking like a mix between the Maelstorm gang in Cyberpunk and the Chaos cultists in 40K>Mankind actually sent multiple waves of colonisation throughout history. Each of them the reflection of the era they came from. They, too, end up getting in contact with the baseline humans.>You have an alliance of uplifted animal species (Apes, Dolphins, Squids...)>Transhuman, but still near baseline humans. They look mostly human, but with a few improvements. So you can get some Star Trek Vulcans-like characters.>Some of these are siding with the posthumans, some of these are helping the baseline humans because they have similar issues with the posthumans trying to take their worlds and confine them in a zoo/museum/toybox. You can even have different factions within each species.>All of them can potentially have characters played by highly fuckable actors and actresses, of course. Yes, including the posthumans.
>>219588246says you, try winning an argument with chatgpt about a controversial issue its woke-ass programmers decided wasn't acceptable, it'll move goalposts faster than you can say "nigger shouldn't be a banned word"
>>219588145>>219588594Sounds cool, this is actually very similar to one of the ideas I have for the project I'm working on.
>>219587491So many concepts just begging to be used for something. Or works whose rights are probably cheap as fuck. You could do great work adapting them or even just ripping from them. Instead we will get Star Wars: Glup Shitto Strikes Back 2: Force Boogaloo.
>Set in a galaxy except not really>Mankind figured out a couple thousands years ago that they were actually living in a computer simulation>Obviously they didn't take it too well and they started a big fucking war without any of that pesky stuff about morality and saving one's soul because fuck it, they don't have thoses>But when the dust finally cleared and the surviving human simulacras stopped for a rest they were forced to admit that nothing was achieved, and apparently the simulation was still going smoothly>They figured that to get any kind of answer or actual end to their existence they would need to escape the bound of the planet, so they rushed towards space exploration (helped a bit by literally knowing how reality works)>Now some fly around the galaxy in glitch-ships trying to find some hints as to what the simulation actually was for, why it keeps going, and have they ever truly left its parameters>Some live in utopias, trying to make enough people in the simulation to crash it down>Some are trying to make the whole thing bug out by creating the most outlanding inventions that for sure will cause someone out there to notice
>>219556348Simple,follow the space hijinks of a travelling Opera troop.
>>219590821No Man's Sky with extra steps
>>219590821>Some are trying to make the whole thing bug out by creating the most outlanding inventions that for sure will cause someone out there to noticeCan you expand
>>219568122I've been dreaming of this since forever.the major problem is that there is no satisfying end. the Seldon plan is effectively halted after only 500 years.
>>219591527There's a story collection that exactly this. Can't remember the name.
