A community-driven sci-fi universe
From time unknown since being sealed off, countless civilizations have risen, prospered, fallen, and turned to ashes on this space ark only for the pattern to repeat again. Roughly every 10 thousand years, the star heats up, scorching the surface and undoing any progress that sentient life managed on the surface. As the star cools […]
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Perhaps the only beings to remember the time before the fall, the harbingers are incredibly ancient and by the present have dwindled to only a few dozen. Yet each harbinger, immense and otherworldly, is a dreadful adversary to any who oppose it, capable of destroying entire armies of even the most powerful of terrestrial kingdoms. […]
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To survive the Cycles, many humans took refuge in vast underground caverns. Some chose to remain and, over time, developed a distinct society of their own. Physiologically, the Dvergr are a squattier yet more robust form of humans. They dwell in vast underground cities adorned with gold, diamonds, and all the vestiges of opulence imaginable. […]
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Before the first wave, life was simple. Tiny specks of life-powered by chemical decay filled the waters. Then the first wave came. The green wave. Being powered by light, life of the first wave quickly overran the ancient life and spread through the waters and lands, taking countless forms Then the second wave came. The […]
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Earth (Gaia) is the homeworld of humanity and is currently the de facto capital of the Galatic Commonwealth. Its surface is defined by a vast expanse of nature with pockets of super-dense cities all interconnected with underground vacuum tubes feasible for hypersonic transport. For movement between the most important of locations, the compression of space-time […]
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The star system TRAPPIST-1 is home to an unusually high number of life-supporting planets – 7 in total. Curiously, all complex terrestrial life found in the entire star system traces its descent from one common ancestor – Specimen 11b2. Researchers remain puzzled how this seemingly primitive omnivore was able to populate all seven of the […]
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To achieve sapience does not guarantee a species will continue to advance technologically. Rather, continuous technological advancement is a rare quirk bestowed upon the fortunate [or unfortunate depending on who you ask] few amidst the millions who have seen their civilizations emerge and disappear. The Ceberyen, hailing from the high-gravity world of Ayala, is certainly […]
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Suddenly cut off from the rest of the hive, the kayvara throng present on the ark, Infinity Horizon, was quick to degenerate into a feral and ravenous host…that is until the emergence of the first necromancer – the one who betrayed. Being cut off from the greater gestalt consciousness had little impact on him for […]
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The Kayvara are a progenitor hivemind, led by a semi-autonomous leader caste. They are a purely space-bound civilization. If they had a home planet, any information on it or its ultimate fate has been lost to obscurity for the Kayvara keep no written records and rarely share what they know. The Kayvara have no standard […]
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The daitya, hailing from the low-gravity planet of Laksha, are a race of super-massive intelligent beings with the largest specimens reaching heights of up to 300 feet. Aside from their immense size, two other aspects make the daitya notable: their unique means of communication and their syncretic relationship with another advanced species. Instead of visuals […]
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