Cool Backstory Syndrome

[Agemegos]

Originally Posted by whswhs

Have you ever seen the Web sites that list "what has always been true" for 18-year-olds now entering college? Things like the South always having been Republican, or people always having carried cell phones, or rap always have been a major strand of popular music? You could do a page or two like that for your setting.

That's an intriguing idea. "Mankind has always lived on hundreds and hundreds of different planets. There has never been any warfare in space. Weapons of mass destruction have always been effectively banned. There has never been an inhabited planet called 'Earth', nor 'Mayflower', nor 'New Aachen'. The Empire has always been a bunch of hard-nosed, steely-eyed party-poopers."