Standard Sci-Fi Setting: Difference between revisions

* Averted / subverted in ''[[OrionsOrion's Arm]]'', which tries to be a [[Mohs Scale of Sci Fi Hardness|hard]] sci-fi setting without sacrificing any of the appeal of the more traditional [[Space Opera]]. The result is a transhumanist setting ruled by godlike [[Artificial Intelligence|Artificial Intelligences]] called Archai, which have experienced not one, but several [[The Singularity|Singularities]] and rule over their lesser subjects like benign deities. Advanced nanotechnology and relativistic spaceflight are commonplace, and while true FTL is impossible, [[Portal Network|wormholes]] and [[Reactionless Drive]] technology have been created by the Archai. [[Creating Life]] is also not that hard, and baseline unmodified humans represent only a tiny part of the extremely diverse terragen (originating-from-Earth) civilization composed of genetically modified transhumans and sentient animals and sentient human-animal hybrids, cyborgs of all kinds, sentient robots, and several kinds of infomorphic lifeforms. And that's just the lower toposophic (read: number of Singularities crossed) levels, before you get to the various planet-sized AIs, [[Dyson Sphere]]-sized AIs, and the wormhole-based AIs that are the higher toposophic beings (the 'godlings' and full godlike Archai). And that's just the terragens, not counting the handful of ''[[Starfish Alien|very alien]]'' aliens that the setting features. Basically, any technology or lifeform that isn't banned outright by physics in in there, somewhere.