Titan's Gaze
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2457 AD - 20 Years after the Inner Systems War
Colonizing the solar system was unlike colonization back when life lived only on Earth.
Far less it was a venture of pioneers and far more one of professionals and wealthy corporations. Under the guidance of the global oligarchy in the late 21st century, the solar system would be viewed a massive mineral depot. However, as time progressed and powerful figures came and went the solar system as a whole began to be viewed as far more than a mining depot- it began to viewed as home.
Colonizing the solar system was much more akin to a centuries long building project than a series of conquests and expeditions. Still, one fraught with centuries of setbacks and troubles from our own failings as a species. The construction of a greater domain to where life could exist in the solar system continued in the background even as the day to day troubles occupied the minds of many. These dramas proved disruptive at times, especially as humans lost their special place in the universe as the sole intelligent life form. Unseated not by some alien being from the infinite abyss, but instead from their own inventiveness. Biotechnology had opened a whole new world of what was and wasn’t possible, as had the development of the virtual networks where people could achieve, in theory, anyhow, digital immortality.
In the past century, the time of interest to all of us, billions of were not born on Earth, but in orbit of other worlds or even on other worlds. Even more recently, the Inner System’s War had broken out. In the wake of this war, a surprising new power to rose in the outer solar system - the Titanian Industrial Complex. In the inner solar system where the war broke out and elsewhere, tensions remain high in the unstable climate which has permeated throughout the solar system with devastation not seen for centuries scarring and altering entire worlds and billions of psyches. For the survivors of the war had witnessed themselves dying thousands of times over and having all too lucid memories of the seemingly endless slaughter and atrocity to which the Inner Systems spuriously ignited.
And worse still, the likelihood of another war breaking out increases by the year as tensions between clades erupt and living standards drop in the inner solar system from the trade collapse following the war. To many, the Inner System’s War had yet to end, simply enter a new phase.
Perhaps not.
Perhaps it is possible, that rationality may prevail in the face of collective madness, even as things continue to descend into the abyss.
Far less it was a venture of pioneers and far more one of professionals and wealthy corporations. Under the guidance of the global oligarchy in the late 21st century, the solar system would be viewed a massive mineral depot. However, as time progressed and powerful figures came and went the solar system as a whole began to be viewed as far more than a mining depot- it began to viewed as home.
Colonizing the solar system was much more akin to a centuries long building project than a series of conquests and expeditions. Still, one fraught with centuries of setbacks and troubles from our own failings as a species. The construction of a greater domain to where life could exist in the solar system continued in the background even as the day to day troubles occupied the minds of many. These dramas proved disruptive at times, especially as humans lost their special place in the universe as the sole intelligent life form. Unseated not by some alien being from the infinite abyss, but instead from their own inventiveness. Biotechnology had opened a whole new world of what was and wasn’t possible, as had the development of the virtual networks where people could achieve, in theory, anyhow, digital immortality.
In the past century, the time of interest to all of us, billions of were not born on Earth, but in orbit of other worlds or even on other worlds. Even more recently, the Inner System’s War had broken out. In the wake of this war, a surprising new power to rose in the outer solar system - the Titanian Industrial Complex. In the inner solar system where the war broke out and elsewhere, tensions remain high in the unstable climate which has permeated throughout the solar system with devastation not seen for centuries scarring and altering entire worlds and billions of psyches. For the survivors of the war had witnessed themselves dying thousands of times over and having all too lucid memories of the seemingly endless slaughter and atrocity to which the Inner Systems spuriously ignited.
And worse still, the likelihood of another war breaking out increases by the year as tensions between clades erupt and living standards drop in the inner solar system from the trade collapse following the war. To many, the Inner System’s War had yet to end, simply enter a new phase.
Perhaps not.
Perhaps it is possible, that rationality may prevail in the face of collective madness, even as things continue to descend into the abyss.
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All of which is dependent on you, yes, you. For you are to make a space age society and lead it to either a better future or a new dark age.
Politically, this world is in a place comparable to the interwar period with the Inner System’s War being a world war one analog.
Try to avoid being completely analogous- the interest is not in the prospects of space WW2 complete with space hitler, but more in creating a deeply unstable, unpredictable political climate in a multi-polar solar system. Making up techno-dystopic ideologies is perfectly fine though, but please keep in mind that your ideology will be built in the context of a world where genetic modification, mind uploading and interplanetary living are regular realities and have been for at least a century if not more.
You do not need to be world oriented, instead you can have multiple factions share multiple planets via orbital habitat complexes and such as most people live in orbital cities or on Earth still in this setting. You still have populations on-world, millions in fact, it’s just that the overall population in the solar system is just orders of magnitude more populous.
Warfare and technology here will be advanced. This is a time where AI systems, other species of humans made from genetic engineering, neural networking and animal uplifting have been reality for centuries as has regular space travel between planets. It’s to the point where even ‘poor’ people can make use of a public spaceship to get to another planet. It is still a minority of human history that these realities have existed, with uplifting only becoming common place around the 24th century and advancements in materials in megastructure engineering being a perpetually iterative force. It's the year 2457, so there's been lots of time between the first man on the moon and super computers on Titan.
A dyson swarm does exist around the sun, but it isn't huge. It is more just a network of thousands of orbital habitats and solar collection arrays beaming energy to the other worlds. Nothing too fancy.
As to the overall political situation, I am leaving that to some ambiguity so that you may have creative freedom beyond the following realities:
1. A major, pointlessly destructive war devastated the inner solar system just a couple decades ago.
2. In terms of weapons development, anti-matter production is on the cutting edge.
3. Life outside Earth only naturally evolved as bacterial colonies in some of the icy moons, there's fossilized
bacteria on mars. However, all this life shares a common origin with Earth so they're not aliens technically.
4. No one's responded to any signals we have sent out yet. It's lonely.
5. Interstellar colonization has happened, but it's still very recent. Only in the past fifty years has any colony ship reached its destination. Relaying minds digitally between star systems and even colony ships in transit is possible at the speed of light at most.
6. No stealth in space in enforced here, no stealth tech exists for space based faculties. Identification of individual components or people within a structure or spacecraft is a different story even if the class of spacecraft can be gleamed.Application Sheet
Here is the application sheet. You don’t need it filled out to start playing in the IC, nor thick descriptions. In tech and military, just place one-line notes on any tech worth mentioning as placeholders if you want to just go straight to the IC.
Culture isn’t a section because I expect your society’s culture and social quirks to be expressed throughout your app sheet and in the IC. Same with many military doctrine or political figures / characters of note (you still can mention them and make a roster for them in the other section, however.)
The app sheet is meant just to be the more mechanical lore aspects used so people have a reference on how your society impacts the setting (hence the need for an infrastructure section) and to define the extent of your society’s technological and military capabilities.
However, to play you only really need to fill out the history and organization sections. The other three you can detail out even after starting the IC. This is because it'd take too long to get things off the ground if you had to fill out every section!
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