Omniverse One

As a student of Chinese history, I am very intrigued by this development. Thanks. I'm still playing around with the concept, of course, but I'd imagine that while its structure and relative tightness will vary on the era, the core concepts it's built on - self-determination, sophont rights, extropi...

So, after hearing about it for sometime, I decided to take the plunge and create my own nation, the Autonomist Technocratic Commonwealth of Aedinor, in Nationstates. For those not in the know, Nationstates is an online political simulator where you create your own nation and roleplay it on their for...

So, I decided to vote differently this time around. Rather than being married to the Democratic party and bitching about them being way to far to the right for my tastes, I decided to vote Green. I would've voted Socialist, but I'd rather lend my vote to someone who could at least get more broad rec...

Thematic reasons aside, why would the inner system be like the Wild West? You'd think the outer system and Oort cloud would be more suited to that. Other than that, that premise is awesome.

I was working on a full-fledged article on this, I'd rather like to do a brief write up to get the idea across. Transhumanism in Accelerating Future is a major component in this setting, probably one of the biggest in terms of thematic elements. Almost all sophont species in the Known Universe, or a...

I gotta say that I'm immensely inspired by this thread. We're really getting back to our roots and creating what looks like a promising setting. And if we do have FTL, should it be more of a "jump" system that isn't very fast but helps reduce the time it takes to get to Point A to Point B?...

Pretty ambitious stuff here. I think my head exploded when I got to the politics of the Commonwealth. Then I have been successful. :) Remember, the Commonwealth is a supranational federation, not a traditional federation like the US. It's naturally going to give broad rights to its member-states. T...

Well, my original (very vague, half assed idea) was that the collab thread would serve less of a dumping ground for random shit and more of a place where ideas can be refined into a full fledged 'verse or interesting story. Anyways... Another idea I had was to try out a steampunk setting, but this t...

While it would be fun, I think it's better to put if off for some other holiday. Honestly, we need fresh blood with worldbuilding interests if we want projects like this to really take off. I think we've become way too complacent and forgot the point of OZ/O1. Either that, or we come up with ideas b...

[The following report has been declassified following analysis by Information Control Command. Its coarse language, unprofessional writing style, and dubious grammar have been noted.] “For tens of millennia, the Transgalactic Commonwealth has been the unassailable juggernaut of the Known Universe! N...

While I normally don't like politically homogenous species defined by a particular culture/mindset/whatever, I can dig the biomechanoids. It also speaks volumes as to the military-industrial power of Bragule that they can indefinitely keep the biomechanoids at bay because its politically convenient.

Throughout its history, Overwatch has diffused countless exceptional threats of varying magnitude, including invasive memetic viruses, would-be galactic warlords, and hostile Outside Context Problems If you can diffuse them. They probably weren't really Outside Context Problems at all. Not necessar...

Let's talk about Overwatch. Broadly speaking Overwatch would be officially classified as an unincorporated autonomous paramilitary governmental organization. What does all that actually mean? Well, unincorporated signifies that Overwatch has no formal charter of incorporation, founding executive ord...

"We're well beyond being a Type III Civilization but at least we don't build cocktail sticks out of neutron stars!" That best summarizes what the situation is. They're a Type III civilization ( just a Type III, like the Galactic Empire or the Culture, I may add - "well beyond" i...

Hmm, not sure how to take that.

Granted I don't have a strong sense of the general tech level so far, but it seems pretty high so far. I particularly want to know how FTL communication functions in this universe. Does its limitations help create the isolation of the Deep Spacers, or has it more to do with the sheer distance the D...

This sounds very promising indeed. I'm seeing some overlap with TEG , and certainly with the Culture. Personally I hope to see more of the former than the latter, but that's just me :). Thanks. As I mentioned, the Culture is a major inspiration for me, but not the only one. There's a significant am...

First off, thanks for all your support. I've put a lot of time into Accelerating Future and I'm glad people are enjoying it. Heretic: While that's probably a cynical view of the setting - it is supposed to be mostly optimisitc, after all -, you're closer to the truth than you realize. In many ways, ...

First off, I'd like to say that it's been a long time since I dropped by. Finally finding a job, and now leaving that for an actual career in my field of study ( :mrgreen: ), have sapped a lot of my attention, among other, personal things. In that time, however, I've been busy as ever worldbuilding ...

Yeah, that makes sense. BTW speaking of reactors, another thing that occurred to me a while ago is, unless you are using solar panels, the temperature of the reactor can be visible from the outside and give a hint as to your alert readiness. If you are just coasting, you probably don't need a great...

Well, this is CSW, after all; I would imagine that they are significantly ahead of us with space exploration. That being said, something like mid-late 2020s? Anything earlier is pushing it, unless the '60s CSW is filled with Orion spacecraft and moon bases...

This is a very interesting method of worldbuilding, and the format alone definitely has me interested. And, of course, psychics and cold war antics.

I thought XK-Masada was in the galactic bulge, or have the Americans been expanding into other eldritch dead worlds for presumably nefarious reasons?

Oh, and I have returned.

Really? My interpretation was that each D-brane holds a universe with its own unique physical laws, and that there was no real limit on the number of universes and the branes that contain them; I think the most recent estimation for the number of universes is 10^10^10^7. As far as I know, its never ...

Hmm, I guess I wasn't the only one to make use of string theory to explain hyperspace (though, I vaguely remember another physicist who was not Curtis Saxton suggesting that SW hyperspace was in fact based on string theory, so I guess it isn't that uncommon). It's definitely a comprehensive cosmolog...