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{{quote|''"The future isn't here yet. But don't worry. It will be."''}}
The '''[http://www.orionsarm.com/ Orion's Arm Universe Project]''' is an online collaborative fiction setting which describes itself as a transhumanist [[Space Opera]] with many [[World Building]] elements.
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.
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* [[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.
* [[Holographic Terminal]]: "Ghost" screens were common during the late Information Age, but were largely replaced by [[Unusual User Interface|Direct Neural Interfaces]] and "wraith" screens that use a cloud of [[
* [[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.
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