So here's the pitch: Sometime in the future, an early spacefaring humanity encounters a gate and gains access to a system of FTL via hyperspace (or the astralspace) and gets its introduction to an ancient, galactic civilization with arcane rules and customs a bit like Brin's Uplift universe. At the "center" of the gates is Hub, a place with a gigantic neutral territory station--like Babylon 5 on a grander scale. Hub connects to all the various worlds. Here's a short sampling:
Archeron: A war world, possibly one where a decadent civilization has kidnapped warriors form different times and worlds to battles for their entertainment.
Beastworld: A planet where many animal species share a group intelligence.
Carceri: An environmentally hostile ancient prison planet.
Limbo: A world in an area of reality warping "broken space" where hyperspace spills in leading to a graveyard of ships.
Mechanus: Robotic beings out to bring order to the galaxy via assimilation. A somewhat (maybe) more reasonable Borg.
Pandemonium: A world only inhabitable in subterranean caverns, but even those are swept by winds that generate infrasound that can drive humanoids insane like the titular Winds of Gath.
2 comments:
Wow. That seems like a interesting combination of the Star Gate and after Colville’s meshing Star Trek, the potential for genre mashing that I hadn’t thought of. Maybe some more westerns or samurai, too
I recommend comparing this with Anders Sandberg's Ex Tempore setting, which while very similar, uses time travel instead of space travel as in your setting
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