Fenspace

In the first decade of the 21st Century, a miracle substance named handwavium appeared seemingly out of nowhere. Handwavium had properties that defied the known laws of physics, and could bring the impossible within reach of the ordinary person: space-capable flying cars, subtle and obvious modifications of the human body, even create new life from dead matter.

Scientists studied it. Governments feared it. The rest of the world didn’t care all that much. Science fiction fandom saw handwavium as the key to making their fantasies reality, and took advantage. Fans founded the Crystal Cities of Venus, the topless towers of Helium on Mars, the bottled city of Kandor on the Moon, built farms in the sky and sailed beyond the edge of the solar system to the near stars.

It’s a brand-new Space Age, and the people who want to go are the ones leading the pack.

Welcome to Fenspace

Fenspace is a collective writing project based on Bob Schroeck's Drunkard's Walk Forums, and is supported by both a wiki and a story archive.

Unmarked spoilers below.

Fenspace incorporates the following tropes (sometimes by deliberate action of its inhabitants)

 * Applied Phlebotinium : The Mysterious Handwavium. Alternative known as The Goop, Miracle Goo, Plotanium, etc.
 * Body Horror: "Joker" biomods. Forced biomodification. Arguably also the result of the Catgirling Machine.
 * Flying Car: The ISO Standard spacecraft for individual fen.
 * Hollywood Cyborg A.C. Peters, Jet Jaguar, The Panzer Kunst Gruppe. Far too many example to count.
 * Magic From Technology: The ultimate goal of both the Wizards and Technomages factions.
 * Magitek: One of the many explanations for Handwavium.
 * Superpower Lottery: Biomodification.