So this is just a pretty basic idea at the moment, but I also want to get input from other people on how this will pan out, it being a sandbox RP and all. What I know so far is that I wanna have a setting that justifies having people run around in spaceships to different planets and systems and shit all the time. Maybe it's 300ish years in the future and there's some very reliable means of traveling between systems in a reasonable amount of time, maybe faster-than-light, and there are human colonies on several stars neighboring Sol. However, the significant communications delay that the distance between these systems introduces causes cultures to generally be centered around single planetary systems. Faster-than-light communication via quantum entanglement is generally very expensive and is only used by governmental and news agencies. Most of the colonies are essentially huge city-sized space stations or rings around a planet's equator, but there are some planetary colonies, though humanity has yet to discover an exoplanet anywhere near as comfortable as earth. These colonies are generally just collections of vast geodesic habitat domes, though structures like mining camps and the like can be found on the bare surface. Terraforming is not yet a viable science and so, in general, human habitats tend to be entirely artificial and in need of constant maintenance.

That's kind of just the basic type of thing I'm going for. Obviously there's a lot of flavor and background to be added here, but I want to have most of that in the hands of the players! As far as what I'm looking for in terms of players you should:

-Have a very strong grasp of writing prose(which does not mean a strong grasp of how to constantly (mis)use 10-letter words)
-Either be pretty well-versed in the types of science and philosophy hard SF tends to touch on, or be willing to use wikipedia every once in a while
-Not be afraid of throwing weird ideas out there in the name of experimentation(or, you know, fun)
-Be committed to developing your character in a realistic way
-Respect the autonomy of other people's characters
-Not have a problem posting at least once a week(hopefully way more)
-(mom voice)BRING A GREAT ATTITUDE

I am interested ^^. I have a few questions.

Will there be other races?
Will we all be a traveling group of colonists or can we have personal reasons to be a spacer?
Are there pew-pew laser guns?
Are you looking for a more peacful RP or will there be pew-pew?

Most of that'll be contingent on the types of characters that we end up with. As far as other races go, tell me what you're thinking of and I'll consider it. I do want to keep this pretty "realistic", if you can really even use that term about science fiction.

Interested, especially if combat is involved.

There very well might be. What kind of experience are you guys looking for? Are there things you've always wanted to try in an RP? Just throw stuff out there.