Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈  ·  last week

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It was stories of Galactic Empires which inspired me to make my own in Worldbuilding, now I'm finally putting form to the vast story of meta-civilisations, meddling Precursors and planets named after 1000 year old Terran memes.
I know there are others like me out there with their own galaxies and histories, it's the joy of Worldbuilding!

If you hear Jungle music, it's because all Galactic starmaps play Jungle. I don't make the rules.

#Worldbuilding#Astrosynthesis#ScienceFiction

Astrosynthesis screenshot, a program which displays 3D starmaps. The view is rotating to give you a sense of the structure of the local Galaxy (all Hipparcos Satellite data, real stars, so many of them!) In the centre is a purple sphere containing many stars, some named in red, as the view rotates we see large Green, Grey and Yellow spheres. Purple - The Community; Star Trek's Federation and The Culture ,mixed into one, or at least the best attempt at it. Green- The Zarquon Imperial Confederacy; , fascist, colonial, occasionally well meaning but ineffectual liberals, can you guess who they are like? Grey- The Veld; 'The Party', Authoritarian communalists, bureaucratic, cold, the 'liberational' rhetoric is a hollow lie Yellow- The Sagre, hyper Capitalists, ones very digitalised soul can be on the market, the 'liberational' rhetoric is a hollow lie. Yellow and Grey had a big war before Humanity took to the Stars and learned some things, still haven't recovered. I would say more, but it might end up in an AI's scrape and feed back to me for money....like in the Green and Yellow parts of the Galaxy.
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈  ·  last month

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Watching a planet I created tonight slowly rotate.
This is one of the things I use the GnuIMP for, Astrosynthesis conjures a fractal map for me, I export it, give the landmasses colour and texture then add some lovely Earth-like clouds as a top layer in GnuIMP

I haven't download the new one yet. It takes spoons, I switched from Chrome to Vivaldi last week, ....give me space.

#Astrosynthesis#Worldbuilding

The Planet Porygon Prime, a terraformed world with dark blue oceans, and brown and green landmasses and swirling Earth-like clouds. In a blue circle around the world is a line denoting the Porygon Prime Loop, a Lofstrom Loop megastructure similar to a Space Elevator for intents and purposes.
Riley S. Faelan
Riley S. Faelan  ·  2 months ago

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What would the world be like if, instead of adopting magnetic storage, punch cards would have evolved into universal application of microfiche, with ubiquitous optical readers and significantly expensive tools for automated microfiche printing, but, naturally, ordinary photography serving some of the hobbyist fiche niche?

blobcatthinking #worldbuilding

müllermeier
müllermeier  ·  2 months ago

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A map for my worldbuilding project. This is an “eyeball planet” a special type of tidally locked world. 1 is supposed to look like what people living there would use. 2 is just to visualize what direction the winds are blowing. 3 is with major shipping lanes overlayed (I wanted to include them with the first, but left them out because I didn’t like the vibes)

Also thanks to Quanox, Shura, Dazze, Happy skies, @sequentialsnep Gotyoureyes and Remy for contributing one city name each.

#digitalart #muellermeier #map #worldbuilding #scifi #planet #hardsciencefiction #sciencefiction

inkscapes
inkscapes  ·  3 months ago

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If you feel that your world or character is missing something, it is almost guaranteed to be history. We are beings that are driven by personal, professional, cultural, religious, and scientific histories. Nothing bothers me more than when I am reading a story and the characters seem willfully disdainful of history. On occasion, that may be true to their character, but what I’m writing about here are those characters that lack depth and engagement because they have been denied history.

If your character encounters a ruined building, that building can tell us so much about the world. Even if you write notebooks of backstory but then decide to condense the character’s reference down to a single name drop you are still giving them both a history and a place in it. I feel that if your world building or character feels flat that the problem lies in their history. Flush that out, with a focus on how that history would shape that character and you will be amazed at how alive they feel to you.

#fiction #history #worldbuilding #Writing

Plumereine
Plumereine  ·  4 months ago

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A quick question for #worldbuilding, but does anyone know of a good, ‘easy’ #starsystem / #solarsystem generator?

By good, I mean one that can and will create a star system with possibly unlivable planets (I don't care if its vivable or not)) depending on the size of the star (very important)?

If it doesn't exist, I'll go back to my dice and chance, but it's worth a try ?

Thank you very much ! :D

Jon F. Zeigler
Jon F. Zeigler  ·  3 months ago

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I'm a writer, and one of the things I use social media for is to promote my own work.

I also know how annoying it is when authors never post anything *else*. So I limit myself to one post a week. That's today.

Here's my most recent book, published by Ad Astra Games. This is my current last word on designing scientifically plausible exoplanetary systems for fiction, at least until I produce a second edition.

#sciencefiction #selfpromotion #ttrpg #worldbuilding

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/483143/architect-of-worlds

randomwizard
randomwizard  ·  4 months ago

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Recent discussions about hypothetical D&D economies led me to look into Roman currency. Here is a great wikipedia image of the common currency in the 27 BC - 100 AD Roman era.

So instead of copper, silver, electrum gold (the D&D standard), the early Roman Empire used various iterations of Bronze, Orichalcum, Silver, Billon, and Gold.

And today I learned Billon is the name for an alloy of silver and gold, or silver and copper, or silver and gold and copper, or basically any alloy of silver and some base metal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_currency#Imperial_period:_27_BC_%E2%80%93_AD_476

#dnd #rpg #osr #history #gametheory #worldbuilding

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈  ·  4 months ago

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Painting worlds in that unfortunately named free image editing software, you know the one.
Anyway, Astrosynthesis slaps an image around a sphere and a world is born, see it spin prettily in Space....

#Astrosynthesis#Worldbuilding

The habitable moon called 'Auburn Falls' rotates slowly in it's orbit, the red light of it's primary tinging the Earth-like world slightly purple in the seas. Note also the orbital infrastructure, although Astrosynthesis doesn't allow such things to be accurate represented, at least they're there. Auburn Falls has a Loftstrom Loop (conventional space elevators are difficult for moons) and an cluster of space habitats, left over from when the moon was being transformed by the famed terraformers of Welcome Systems.
myrmepropagandist
myrmepropagandist  ·  4 months ago
I love it when fiction authors include:
* maps
* organizational charts
* profiles of characters with little images
* family trees
* timelines
* diagrams of weapons and ships with all the features labeled

I sometimes think there is some notion that such things aren’t “real writing” or even that they are “crutches”

But really it’s just enjoyable and makes the world seem more real.

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈  ·  4 months ago

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@futurebird I just enjoy Worldbuilding for the hell of it, barely has any story come of my Universe but it is a vast and documented place. I know there are others like me.

#Worldbuilding#Astrosynthesis

Or M. Bialik
Or M. Bialik  ·  4 months ago

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There is a subgenre of academic papers that could have originally started as someone’s homework for a #SciFi story or #worldbuilding exercise. This exploration of constraints on #life beyond Earth definitely fits that category.
Also, seriously, #writers , so many excellent resources now to explore and understand how life outside Earth could evolve and function… if you want to go for hard SciFi (or just get some out-of-the-box ideas), just reach out and grab them.
arxiv.org/abs/2409.14477
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