MAP GAME VI
Space Race (two)!
Opening log.
The 21st century (Human calendar: 2000-2100 Anno Domini) had gradually seen a decrease in public interest and trust towards space industry. Aeronautics agencies of the time saw their budget go down by the year, misinformation and ignorance gained ground in the public eye, yet they kept researching for human-kind’s sake. Their efforts seemed in vain, until the Humans had their Traveller Encounter.
On the Human calendar’s 205th day of 2084 (Human calendar: 24 July, 2084 A.D.), a ‘’cloud of smoke’’ was seen from Terra (Human name: Earth) on the natural satellite of the planet, Luna (Human name: Moon), followed by a meteor shower of lunar fragments. The material was quickly located on a north-eastern landmass, an area called ‘’Siberia’’, and recovered for study: how could an object pass in their system and hit their satellite while remaining completely undetected? Of course, they discovered minor traces of exotic matter in the samples (the definition of Traveller Encounter is the discovery by a civilisation of exotic matter, commonly known as ‘’Exomat’’), recognising it by the well-known feature of not following or being outside of the Universe’s laws of physics and nature.
It didn’t take long for Human scientists to figure out theoretical applications for the Exomat, and thus private funding pushed for quick development of Luna’s colonisation to retrieve all exotic matter. By Human Calendar 2157 A.D., the Lem Colony was established, and extraction of Exomat went full regime, despite the awful living conditions at the base and the costs of such an operation. The Human Calendar 2219 A.D. saw the first manned vessel travel to the fourth planet in the Sol System, Mars, in two weeks, making full use of early Protean Field Generators and nuclear fusion-powering. By Human Calendar 2318, when planet and moon colonisation was at its peak, a natural wormhole was spotted completely at random in Earth’s orbit, previously classified as a possible asteroid sharing the orbit. Reverse-engineering, exploration and development of D-Sails quickly followed, and since then Humans have be
*DATA CORRUPTED*
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*DATA ERADICATED MANUALLY BY user##### . INSERTING NEW DATA*
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*WELCOME TO THE TRAVELLER BUBBLE.
Greetings, *insert data*. If you are receiving this message, you, like so many other species before and after you, have achieved exotic matter-based society, but were among the parallel universes that were destroyed in the process. Basically, when you tried making a wormhole yourselves, there was a 50% chance of collapsing space and time and eradicating your planet, solar system, galaxy or universe, and it happened.
But we ask you to not worry, for a large number of universes has your species survive and evolve into a galactic superpower that destroyed itself in billions of different ways. But it’s not over for you. The destruction of the wormhole gathered all information needed to bring you into the Traveller Bubble.
What is that? Hell if we know. Like, Tim just woke up one day and said ‘’Yo, let’s throw our matter into random realities and put the guys that blow up into a *DATA ERADICATED*’’ and we all said yes, except Bob, whom we promptly terminated. And it never went beyond that, so we just do that: throw exotic matter into your universes and reconstruct the ones that fail to make wormholes. There’s also the possibility of editing the data to create different things entirely, but that’s up to you.
So, welcome to the Traveller Bubble. Enjoy your stay.*
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*END LOG*
So, a lot of you might be wondering, ''Riko, what the hell is this thing?''
Well, a Map Game is something I invented long ago, where people would have free will and control over what to put in a specific universe (originally, to fill a map), writing whatever they wanted and how much they wanted. And so, I'm here to do it again in space (also again)! Sci-fi universe that you can fill with whatever you want, writing, drawing, or just ideas!
Are there any rules to your train of madness? Honestly, no.
The log above introduced you to the ''Traveller Bubble'', an artificial galaxy where everything could happen and everything could end up in there, thus allowing you for full control. You want to make a somewhat scientifically accurate thing? Go ahead. You want to make a civilization of pickles on a donut planet? Again, go ahead. You want an army of Bill Nye krogans? Do it.
Orion's Arm Universe Project: a collaborative writing thing that has basically made a hard-science (supposedly realistic), incredibly detailed universe. I can't really explain: there's just so much stuff there.
http://www.orionsarm.com
Mass Effect Wiki: Mass Effect pulled the sci-fi universe thing majestically (except for Andromeda), so I highly suggest taking inspiration from there. Just be wary of spoilers.
http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Mass_Effect_Wiki
Star Wars/Star Trek: NO.
Firefly Wiki: Yeah, why not?
http://firefly.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
Dune Wiki: Also check this thing. Dune's universe is really, really cool.
http://dune.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
DeviantArt: There's a lot of stuff on DeviantArt, and I've already found a lot of awesome drawings for aliens and whatnot. Check it out if you need inspiration.
https://www.deviantart.com
The SCP Foundation: This writing group has an ''extraterrestrial'' section, so you can have a good read while taking ideas.
http://www.scp-wiki.net
Shadiversity: Fine lad, he's made some videos about sci-fi and his own universe too. Go check him out.
https://www.youtube.com/user/shadmbrooks
Isaac Arthur: A whole channel dedicated to exploring concepts of science, futurism, space exploration and science fiction. Definitively check him out (be wary for long videos and quite a weird accent).
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZFipeZtQM5CKUjx6grh54g
Could add some more, if you guys want. Like, if you have any reference to suggest, I can put it here.
http://www.orionsarm.com
Mass Effect Wiki: Mass Effect pulled the sci-fi universe thing majestically (except for Andromeda), so I highly suggest taking inspiration from there. Just be wary of spoilers.
http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Mass_Effect_Wiki
Star Wars/Star Trek: NO.
Firefly Wiki: Yeah, why not?
http://firefly.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
Dune Wiki: Also check this thing. Dune's universe is really, really cool.
http://dune.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
DeviantArt: There's a lot of stuff on DeviantArt, and I've already found a lot of awesome drawings for aliens and whatnot. Check it out if you need inspiration.
https://www.deviantart.com
The SCP Foundation: This writing group has an ''extraterrestrial'' section, so you can have a good read while taking ideas.
http://www.scp-wiki.net
Shadiversity: Fine lad, he's made some videos about sci-fi and his own universe too. Go check him out.
https://www.youtube.com/user/shadmbrooks
Isaac Arthur: A whole channel dedicated to exploring concepts of science, futurism, space exploration and science fiction. Definitively check him out (be wary for long videos and quite a weird accent).
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZFipeZtQM5CKUjx6grh54g
Could add some more, if you guys want. Like, if you have any reference to suggest, I can put it here.
So, what are you waiting for? Draw, write, suggest, just fill up the Traveller Bubble!