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I’m working on a speculative evolution world on a Europa-like moon. It’s about 2/3rd the mass of earth orbiting a rogue Jovian planet about 5x larger than Jupiter. Around 400 million years after ...
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In my alternate Earth Cold War setting, I have an insular, non-aligned, theocratic continent particularly obsessed with nuclear weapons. It views nuclear weapons as a revolutionary new frontier to war ...
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My setting is a post-climate-apocalypse world. Essentially, climate got bad (a worst case scenario, or a little more than that, sea level rise, rising temperatures, bad weather, that sort of thing). ...
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Just take a 1st century AD Aeolipile, connect it to a gear powered flywheel with steam coming out the top of the bronze tea kettle heated on a metal pad with a torch. That spins a hemp or linen belt ...
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My setting includes a space faring civilization which builds massive terrestrial ziggurat-esque megastructures as one of their main identifying features. They vary in size but even the smallest ones ...
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How close could two sunlike stars be to each other without orbiting each other? They would be two separate solar systems, not binary. Each system would host a habitable planet. I'm working to figure ...
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From my reading (Sapiens by Harari, Debt by Graeber, various other research including Wikipedia) and general understanding of how gift/reputation economies work, they rely on relatively close ...
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I am currently planning on writing a short series of mini-stories about 'extraordinary' or unusual stellar systems where life still manages to emerge. This gave me an idea for a system. I am however ...
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I’m working on a speculative evolution moon that was once orbiting a rogue planet. The moon was similar to Europa in that it had an icy shell covering an ocean beneath. Life evolved under this ice ...
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So, to set the stage: I have a star 25% the luminosity of the Sun, a blue dwarf, which hosts a dwarf planet 470km across orbiting 0.06au away. Considering its distance, this planet is very hot, ...
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I am writing a fantasy series that is set on a planet that is also a moon to an evil, bigger planet. The idea is every 700 years, the planet the story is set on, we can call it Planet A, revolves ...
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So as many of you undoubtedly know by now, i'm writing a overarching narrative which is intended to be outright farcical and a parody of many well-known settings (like Dune, Chess, analogue horror, ...
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And before you even think of it, no, I don't want it to be magic. I wish to create from scratch an energy source for a planet very much like Earth but in a fantasy setting. The planet in question does ...
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For my cyberpunk noir in 2063 thirty years WW3, could there be a new dust bowl and a permanent aurora borealis caused by war and experimental tech??
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In my science fiction setting, there is a small, underdeveloped polity called the Kingdom of Kadar. At the time that the story starts, the polity is undergoing a brutal civil war. For the purposes of ...
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