New Sci Fi Setting Seeds

Astromancer · 10-14-2019, 12:19 PM

Try this one...

Technological advances in the next ten years make space flight far cheaper and the USA, the EU, China, and India, all see cultural and political reasons to invest in space. Japan, South Korea, South Africa, and Indonesia, club in with the EU. Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Mexico, and Brazil, club in with the USA. Russia, going through hard times stays out.

By 2050 there are stable self-sustaining cities of the Moon, Cylinders and other space habitats as far out as the asteroid belt. The project to create a backup archive of all human knowledge on the Dark Side of the moon is nearing completion. All known books and other documents in English, Chinese, French, and thirty other languages is functionally complete and only requires regular updating. All known films and audio recordings from before 2048 are already archived for all languages. The peace park was all set to be officially opened.

Then the plagues struck. Dozens of plagues, so many plagues at once had to be a planed attack. A quarantine slammed down the links between Earth and Space. Several orbitals already had plague and were soon derelicts, maned only by ghosts.

It is now Dec. 17th 2051. All radio signals from Earth have stopped. There are no signs of human life on Earth visible from low Earth orbit. If there are survivors, including whoever created the plague, they might as well be dead for all the difference it makes.

The space based communities must now govern themselves and build a working peace in the skies.

This setting has the needed food, fiber, clean water, and information. Most problems of Space Medicine are being dealt with at TL9. There are colleges on the Moon founded by both the USA and the EU (the Indians are sanguine about this, the Chinese less so). It will take work and co-operation to survive.

10-14-2019, 12:19 PM	#23
Astromancer Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: West Virginia	Re: New Sci Fi Setting Seeds Try this one... Technological advances in the next ten years make space flight far cheaper and the USA, the EU, China, and India, all see cultural and political reasons to invest in space. Japan, South Korea, South Africa, and Indonesia, club in with the EU. Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Mexico, and Brazil, club in with the USA. Russia, going through hard times stays out. By 2050 there are stable self-sustaining cities of the Moon, Cylinders and other space habitats as far out as the asteroid belt. The project to create a backup archive of all human knowledge on the Dark Side of the moon is nearing completion. All known books and other documents in English, Chinese, French, and thirty other languages is functionally complete and only requires regular updating. All known films and audio recordings from before 2048 are already archived for all languages. The peace park was all set to be officially opened. Then the plagues struck. Dozens of plagues, so many plagues at once had to be a planed attack. A quarantine slammed down the links between Earth and Space. Several orbitals already had plague and were soon derelicts, maned only by ghosts. It is now Dec. 17th 2051. All radio signals from Earth have stopped. There are no signs of human life on Earth visible from low Earth orbit. If there are survivors, including whoever created the plague, they might as well be dead for all the difference it makes. The space based communities must now govern themselves and build a working peace in the skies. This setting has the needed food, fiber, clean water, and information. Most problems of Space Medicine are being dealt with at TL9. There are colleges on the Moon founded by both the USA and the EU (the Indians are sanguine about this, the Chinese less so). It will take work and co-operation to survive. __________________ Per Ardua Per Astra! Ancora Imparo Last edited by Astromancer; 05-30-2022 at 03:57 PM.