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{{quote|''"The future isn't here yet. But don't worry. It will be."''}}

 

 

The year is 10601 AT (probably), with the AT calendar beginning on the day man first walked on the moon in 1969. This means it is ten and a half millennia in the future, and as you can guess, the far future is an ''extremely weird'' place, where the only boundaries are imagination.

* [[Evolutionary Levels]]: Borderline example, the toposophic levels are this for mental evolution. Homo superior (often shortened to 'su') play it closer to this trope, as they are considered generally superior to baseline humans in most ways (hence the name). But note they are ''genetically engineered'' to be 'superior', not "further along in evolution".

** In the hunt for a cause for [[The End of the World as We Know It|The Chaos]], ais are looking for 'keys', which would be the physical equivalent of the mental evolution in the toposophics, which is closer to this trope.

* [[Exclusively Evil]]: A group of AI in the second millennium AT were worried that Terragen think too much alike, due to the inherent biases of their creators. So they created the [http://www.orionsarm.com/xcms.php?r=oaeg-view-article&egart_uid=47e9add0e5e11 Bitenic Squids], a highly diverse clade with every newborn member being a blank slate. Those that can function in the wider world are all completely selfish and without empathy, and go insane easily.

* [[Exotic Equipment]]: The [[Touhou|To'ul'h]] have sex with their [[Memetic Mutation|armpits]] somehow.

* [[Hive Mind]]: The [http://www.orionsarm.com/xcms.php?r=oa-story&story=travnotes_empledokcetics Emple-Dokcetics'] philosophy is one of the sharing of minds, with the end result being something somewhat like this. Closer to this trope are the Anttechians, which are essentially intelligent anthills.

** [http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/471eae8eb7f67 Unity] was a movement that died out with the emergence of the First Federation. However their software remains a popular method of creating small-scale group minds.

* [[Horde of Alien Locusts]]: The [http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-topic/45f0c580310bf Amalgamation] are something like this.

* [[Human Aliens]]: Borderline case. These exist, but are all descended from regular humans.

* [[The Singularity]]: This is treated as an individual-level event, and there are 6 of them, each one making the individual far more powerful mentally.

** Note that the first Singularity was sometime in the late 23rd century, instead of the mid-21st century as many predicted.

* [[So Bad It's Good]]: [http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/483ae5827604f Glarion: The Glorious Conqueror], a propaganda movie of Tylansia (a fascistic, racist, anti-ai, anti tech, communistic planet), is watched for laughs everywhere else.

* [[Space Amish]]: There are several varieties of such groups, generally referred to as "Ludds" or "Luddites", who may ironically rely on varying levels of technology to support their otherwise low tech lifestyle (such as a low tech society in a space habitat). One group in particular, the [http://orionsarm.com/xcms.php?r=oaeg-view-article&egart_uid=4887ee7944aff Synthetic Human Alliance] explicitly drew their memeplex from the Amish, although they did not take on all the aspects of the Amish. They even have to deal with younger generations leaving for the wider galactic culture.

* [[Space Station]]: The majority of non-virtual life live in space habitats, which are usually cylinder-shaped or ring-shaped.

* [[Space Whale]]: Provolved and transapient whales.

* [[Starfish Aliens]]: And how! Every truly alien species is just that - alien. Here is a small sample of extant species.

** The [http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-topic/4802a95fb92f2 To'ul'h], which look like bloated, headless bats, but are more anatomically similar to starfish, were the first to be discovered after stagnating in their industrial era. They are comfortable in high-pressure, acidic environments in excess of 130°C. They are considered to be the species most similar to humanity.

 

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