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whereserpentswalk · 1 month

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It sucks trying to date as a human on a planet where humans are a minority, and all of the dominant races are ones who've had limited contact with humans. Most alien cultures either think of humans as disunitied conquerors and raiders who subjugate other races, or as a diaspora who live on other species' planets and who are useally involved in the criminal underworld. So everyone who wants to date you has all these weird fetishes, about how they're getting to fuck this dangerous amoral space monster, and you're just like, a normal person. And like, people from the more common races where you live don't ever understand that.

Both people who want to be domed by you and people who want to dom you specifically focus on the fact that you're from an exotic race that most people think of as violent. Everyone either focuses on how weird and unique you are, or how dangerous you are. And like, even when you want to do something kinky you don't really want to focus on the fact that you're human. And there's really nobody who has any fantasies about you that are wholesome or soft, even when they don't mention that you're human they never think about being sweet or kind to you. It is what it is.

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daisy-mooon · 8 months

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Sci-fi worldbuilding ideas for your city planets :)

If the planet is entirely city, where does the oxygen come from? Are their farms dedicated to producing oxygen? Special factories? Are there plants that produce oxygen very quickly all over the planet? Do you have to pay an oxygen tax?

Does the planet have natural water? Are the oceans untouched, incorporated into the city, or have they been drained and the water used for things in the city? What is it used for? Drinking, dams, hydroelectricity, food production, etc?

How deep does the city go? Has the planet been mined into to create more space? Is geothermal energy used? Are the bottom levels reserved for things such as sewage, electricity production, factories, prisons, etc?

What is transportation like? Are there roads, floating roads, or are trains and trams used instead? Are planes used? Is transportation fast enough to quickly travel across time zones?

How is food produced? Is it imported, or is it grown on planet? A combination? Think about greenhouses, factorised farms, vertical farming projects, etc. If oceans are left relatively untouched, is food produced in it? Are fish kept? Are there ration laws?

Are the poles less occupied than the rest of the city? Are they used for storing frozen goods, super computers? On a planet with no oceans, is ice and snow valuable?

The same goes for the equator of the planet. Is it more or less occupied? Is the heat used for anything? Are there solar panel farms? Air conditioning?

Are there parks and protected areas of nature? Ancient gardens, important forests, sacred land? Are there laws about chopping down trees? Are there farms for trees and plants? Are their plant shops, and are they expensive? In Star Wars, a part of Coruscant's highest mountain is a public monument that you can look at - are parts of mountains, rare ores, fossils, etc, preserved?

Not all sci-fi cities look the same. Coruscant has skyscrapers arranged in a very chaotic manner, stretching incredibly deep and incredibly high, and there is almost no plant life or natural parts of the planet to be seen. Xandar is arranged neatly with very similar style buildings whilst remaining relatively low rising compared to other city planets, and has lots of greenery and a fairly untouched ocean. Wakanda is relatively defined in layout, with a mixture of plants and buildings, houses and skyscrapers, with every building being unique. Draw inspiration from whatever you like.

Write whatever you want, even if it's common or cliche. It doesn't matter if it has been done before, because it hasn't yet been written by you.

Happy worldbuilding!

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thecrazyworldbuilder · 11 months

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Excuses for using melee weapons in a sci-fi setting:

Many battles happen on spinning space stations, and if you don't know why that matters watch this.

Range weapons are illegal. Like, very illegal.

Humans/aliens just didn't develop an evolutionary skill of aim. This would make any person who actually can hit a target with a thrown/shot object from a distance a complete menace.

Blasters exist but they suck at giving any damage at all as plasma evaporates midway to the target. Actual guns just cannot penetrate the armor tech developed by then, thus are totally useless.

#sci-fi #worldbuilding #sci-fi worldbuidling #sci fi #sci fi worldbuilding

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worldanvil · 7 months

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Journey with us into the cosmos of sci-fi worldbuilding! Unlock the secrets of crafting otherworldly landscapes, species, and technologies that will leave your readers and players spellbound.

#scifi #worldbuilding #world building #sci fi worldbuilding #writing scifi #science fiction #space opera

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mr-orion · 6 months

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Editing all my worldbuilding so its now an outrun scifi hybrid with dinosaur presidents

#worldbuilding #sci fi worldbuilding #outrun

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transcendragon · 5 months

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Talk To Me About Worldbuilding - I wanted to try my hand at a cute little design, and I’ve been thinking a lot about worldbuilding lately. I borrowed a lot from my earlier pieces, and added some new stuff!

My original art made in Procreate, image description in alt text.

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space-opera-slays · 9 months

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Is there any way a planet could have split biomes? That are opposites in nature, I want there to be three extremely distinctly different biomes on a planet but could that be possible and if so how.

#worldbuilding #writing tips #science side of tumblr #science #help #please help #sci fi #science fiction #sci fi worldbuilding #science fiction writing

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earthgeco · 1 year

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I have a question that I don't know if there is an answer to. I know the human lower backs kind of suck because our transition to being bipedal was pretty scuffed. So my question is, what would the ideal skeletal structure be for an upright hominid, and would the change the way we looked on the outside?

#science side of tumblr #ive been googleing other bipedal animals but none of them are upright like us so it isnt helping very much.#sci fi worldbuilding

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tlaquetzqui · 5 days

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The burning question for all serious science fiction writers: how to limit the FTL? Make it too long range or let it be activated too often and you basically make your setting infinite. So you have to figure out range limits, cooldown times, and things like “can’t activate it too close to a star” to keep things contained to whatever portion of a galaxy you want to set as the limit of exploration. (And probably keep people from being able to zip in, do something, and zip out again.)

Unfortunately the most plausible FTL is traversible wormholes, and those make things much more complicated, since they’re effectively instant. With something like Alcubierre warp (the distant secondmost plausible) you can say “you’re limited to x distance per y time” and then your exploration and other factors are limited just like historic travel times (“it took 52–82 millennia for humans to reach Tierra del Fuego from Ethiopia”). But with wormholes you have to consider…how often can I jump? How far? Does the drive need a cooldown? Because the travel itself barely takes any time—pretty much just however long it takes to get your whole ship in and out of the actual wormhole.

What I’m leaning toward: you can only travel a given distance with a given amount of power put into the wormhole drive, and then you have to move some distance away from where you emerged from the wormhole, before you can use the drive again. If you set it at something like 1/100,000th the distance you traveled, you wind up having to move about 7/11ths of an AU for every light year crossed. Obviously the real minimum would be something else—say a multiple or power of the gravitational constant or pi or Euler’s number—but the rule of thumb ship-crews use would be rounded to the nearest multiple of ten, for convenience.

#worldbuilding #world building #sci fi writing #sci fi worldbuilding

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whereserpentswalk · 3 months

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You live on a planet where humans have been forced to have only one biological sex. You're at the edge of human space, and early in colonization you planet was under attack from an outside source, for survival you had to switch to artificial breeding, which is more effective in mammal species if there's only females, as male reproductive cells are easily synthesized.

You're the only humans in the region. Most alien species you interact with just think of humans as a single sexed species that has artifical reproduction. Though you understand that humans used to have two sexes you barely actually interact with that concept. You don't really think of yourself as having a gender identity or anything, you're kind of just a person. The last male human on your planet has been dead for generations.

You first saw a photo of human male in a history class when you were a teenager. He looked so odd to you. He was deep in the uncanny valley, something that felt very familiar to you, something you evolved to interact with, but something so unfamiliar. Illustrations of males, especially outside of academic sources, always play up unfamiliar features to make them into something almost like a fantasy race, but you find something almost charming about the one in the photo.

That photo sticks with you in a weird way. It's kind of scary. Especially the idea of living at a time with actual male female dynamics. The idea of a man being inside you, however that must work, seems so viscerally horrifying to you. You've known people who've had sex before, it's controversial in your society for people to have sex with eachother, but it's legal, but it seems so diffrent then whatever you'd be expected to do with a male human.

Time passes. You end up living your own life. You major in music once you get to college, and end up with a semi successful career as a guitarist in the capital of one of your planet's countries. Things go well for you. You live your life thinking slightly more about men then most people do, but it's never that important to you.

One day there's word that ambassadors from another human planet are visiting. They're from several systems away, and very culturally diffrent. And it's most likely that they'll have men with them. It's strange to think you might actually be able to see one. You think of them as this strange race of monsters, so clearly linked to you but unlike you. Everything people say about men, that they're violent and warlike, that they're superior yet evil, that they're weaker yet more honest and good natured, rushes through your head.

You sign up to be a musician in the welcoming band to the ambassadors. It's scary but you enter. You win, partly because you're local and talented, partly because most other musicians were too afraid.

When the ambassadors from another human planet show up its on one of your city's largest streets, with cheering crowds and flashing lights. You play a song you realize your entire planet is going to hear. Then for the first time in your life, after about two and a half decades of being alive, you see a male human.

The males in the ambassadorial mission are mixed together with normal people. But you can easily spot the males. They're strange looking to you, the way they walk, and speak and move. Though you realize their foreign way of dressing is honestly more alien then anything biological. Despite your expectations, the males look oddly human, they are human, they're just more like you then you'd expect, they look a bit diffrent, but they're honestly just normal people. It's almost anticlimactic.

When everyone is talking to eachother later you're meant to interact with the musicians of their world, most of whom seem to be male. It's so strange to think you're actually talking to someone whose male. You were kind of worried some sort of mating instincts would set in, but after a lifetime of being raised to never expect to have any sexual experiences that involve more then one person, your mind doesn't really go in that direction, even if you did have those instincts.

You end up talking for awhile in your only shared language (a long dead one) to another guitarist. He's male but it's weirdly not a big deal, he's less obviously male then some of the others, and he seems like a nice freindly person. You realize his voice is deep, but it's not distorted in monstrous like you expected it to be. You realize you shouldn't talk about his sex, so you talk about music. You end up really interested in his culture's musical traditions, and kind of ignore his sex. You almost forget he's a man. Since he'll probably have to stay on the planet for at least a few months he tells you he'd like to meet again mabye. He shakes your hand, his skin doesn't feel diffrent then anyone else's, you don't know why you'd expect it not to.

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cybersoldier82 · 8 months

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Was doing some crunching lore wise last night and came up with this

#oc lore #world building #sci fi worldbuilding #sona lore #soft vore #safe vore #v.ore #obligatory vore tags #sci fi #cyberpunk #cyberpunk setting #also yes i kinda borrowed the bamw of UGH currency foe what they call money in cyberpunk 2077 #idk the term euros just rolls off the tongue what can i say #cybers input

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ohwormwoodlore · 3 months

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Tidbits: Sanguine

AKA, I give an unsolicited Tedtalk about word etymology and vampire bats.

Some fun facts and stuff about my vampire disease worldbuilding project >:)

Sanguine is kind of a pun/semi-ironic name: primarily, it means to be happy or optimistic, but in it's original latin form, it is derived from sanguineus (bloody) or sanguis (blood). How we got from gore to chipper I have ZERO idea, but I am a fan of latin so I decided to fuck around and find out.

The Seward Institute is also a reference! Dr. John Seward is a character from the original Bram Stoker Dracula, whose primary role in the story as a doctor is to provide a scientific POV on vampires.

Vampire bats contributed a solid 60% of the information that I used for the medical side of things, and I can't help but appreciate the fact that their entire existence is a meme. For one, their latin name is hilarious- the prefix desmos- translates to something along the lines of "bundle" or "group", dont means "tooth", and the classification of the common vampire bat is rotundus, which means that it literally translates to round bundle of teeth. Second, they produce an anticoagulant that they literally named draculin. Third, they are the only group of bats that can RUN, which Wikipedia describes as "a unique, bounding gait", and when I looked up a video all I could think of was the weird rabbit puppets from Dark Crystal. Finally, they're incredibly social to the point that they will feed other bats blood the way that baby birds feed... which is just. all weird. Long story short, vampire bats are weird little goblins.

I'll probably post even more tidbits as I go on, but this is all I can share for now!

#worldbuilding #sci fi worldbuilding #bats #vampires #vampire bats #they're just little goblins guys #round bundle of teeth

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fwdraws · 9 months

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Inoue KMKR-65 Ryōshi [GEN 3]

The third generation of the premier smart-round battle rifle. Utilising guided flechette ammunition, this modular combat longarm thrives in any environment, with a wide effective range. Whether you need an accurate long-distance shot or minimum-risk urban force, the KMKR is the weapon for you. As long as you belong to one of the few agencies authorised to purchase one, anyway. 2023

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tiredtransalien · 9 months

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Heres one my sci Fi OC's named Sakura Ito

She is a human native to earth and is indigenous American and japanese, she's the child of two women mari and Morgan with them being born since mari never having had bottom surgery, Sakura is currently 22, genderfluid(any pronouns even neo pronouns), the story shes in is a mix of non realistic sci Fi and more spec bio type stuff, she belongs to the unrealistic with her being a part of a human subspecies simply called mutants, and just imagine them as like mutants from x men with them being born with specialized organs in their arms that allows them to shoot fire from their arms like a dragons fire breath, they are currently the star lord of their group a chaotic goofy metalhead that uses a guitar as a weapon, she has two specialized made pistols that were made by their cousin, and their girlfriend Evelin is a half human half alien who is essentially a au Steven universe that became their own individual oc, with evelin belonging to @zomthenonbinary along with Sakura's sister issabella and their mother Mari

#xenobiology #sci fi worldbuilding #original character #original character art #Sci Fi art #Sci Fi #Science fiction #Alien #Cyberpunk #Cyberpunk oc #Queer art #Space oc #speculative biology #genetically modified #worldbuilding #Science fantasy #I know it's not an alien oc but they are in a story full of aliens and they are one of my very few human OCS #Chaotic neutral

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amorphousbl0b · 2 months

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Random worldbuilding tidbit I think people should use more: ICE HARVESTING

Before refrigeration, the only way to keep food cold was to bring in ice from elsewhere, making it an absolutely thriving trade, especially in the 19th century when insulation and ships had improved enough to transport it far away. Blocks of it would be shipped in, brought down from mountains, or harvested from local waters in winter and stored in icehouses for distribution in spring, summer, and autumn.

In your pre-modern worlds, where do people get their ice? Wizards able to freeze water might have a job selling it during the warm seasons. Gathering ice was also a winter task for many farmers, so consider incorporating that into your characters’ daily lives. If there’s no way to get ice — in regions that don’t freeze in the winter or are too far away from the poles for easy trade, or in worlds without insulation technology — how do people preserve their food?

And don’t think I forgot about science fiction, because space ice miners are a concept that’s been stuck in my head for YEARS. Asteroids colonies, space stations, terraforming projects, arid planets, and other settlements with little to no natural water will all require a reliable supply thereof. And if your setting has nuclear fusion or hydrogen fuel, more water is always appreciated for electrolysis. The great thing is that ice is pretty abundant in space. From pioneering terraformers cracking the poles of Mars to frontier Oort-hoppers wrangling comets at the outer reaches of the solar system to interstellar operations stripping planets of their rings and stars of their asteroid belts, there’s room for ice mining in every space setting.

Aside from worldbuilding, the profession itself would make for some excellent stories, no matter what setting. Ice cutting is a dangerous job, wherein the very ground you stand on is liable to break up and plunge you into freezing doom if your cuts are not precise. It would be no simpler in space, contending with all the perils of zero-G. Backgrounds could be diverse, from farmers simply providing for their own families to fully professional ice harvesters and sellers.

If nothing else, it’ll provide an excuse to reference the best song from Frozen.

#writing #worldbuilding #ice #ice harvesting #ice mining #ice cutting #frozen heart #worldbuilding ideas #fantasy #science fiction #sci fi worldbuilding #fantasy worldbuilding #history

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girlysword · 1 year

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Sci-fi/Fantasy Naming Conventions Idea

So Fitz means "son of", so Fitzpatrick means "son of Patrick"

So first come up with a prefix in your fictional language that means "child of". Then decide whether your fictional culture is patriarchal and put the father's name, matriarchal and put the mother's name, or neither and put the parents' ship name.

#sci fi worldbuilding #fantasy worldbuilding #naming conventions #conlang #also tag yourself #my prefix would be con #so my surname would be consark

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