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Once upon a time, there was a shared world called Angwels, written by a bunch of people in and around the Dublin University Science Fiction Society, many of whom had better things to be doing, but couldn't be bothered to do them. Angwels fell in on itself and decayed (after a few attempts at implosion), and grand plans were formed for other shared settings. One of these was a cyberpunk setting, which was to be called Matrix. This film thing came out and swiped the title, though. Another was called Starflung. The concept was simple.
In 2048, scientists on Mars discovered a faster-than-light propulsion method. It was simple, it was cheap, and the only reason it had never been discovered before was it would only work outside a circle of a certain radius, centred on a star. Earth lay within the Sun's FTL suppression radius, Mars outside.
With this discovery, people started to leave Earth in earnest, not just to the colonies on the Moon, Mars and the Jovian satellites. Every minority group that possibly could sold all their assets, built colony ships, and set course for planets charted by Hubble and its descendants. This went on for about twelve years, and then, almost without notice or reason, Earth went mad. Nuclear war - nobody's sure why - and a nuclear winter. The colony ships lost contact, of course, and went their separate ways, finding all kinds of alien life, and each establishing their own civilisation - or in some cases, remaining as drifters and wanderers. Mars and the Jovian colonies found that there was equal investment in surviving without Earth, and in building colony ships, and opted for the latter. Earth and the solar system were left empty, and eventually, they were lost to the memory of the scattered starflung humans.
Now, skip forward three thousand years. An exploration ship has found ruins of a dead civilisation on the third planet of a minor star. Invesigation has shown that the inhabitants were human, and the time frame proved it. Earth has been found again.
Religious groups, archaeologists, fanatics, acadamics, pro- and anti-human groups from across the galaxy are converging.
So. Sci-fi is scattered, but a few of the people involved in Angwels are still about. Between those and new volunteers, I figure something could be made of this shared world setting. Is there interest?
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pennydreadfuls for providing the third reminder of the old shared worlds in a week.)
In 2048, scientists on Mars discovered a faster-than-light propulsion method. It was simple, it was cheap, and the only reason it had never been discovered before was it would only work outside a circle of a certain radius, centred on a star. Earth lay within the Sun's FTL suppression radius, Mars outside.
With this discovery, people started to leave Earth in earnest, not just to the colonies on the Moon, Mars and the Jovian satellites. Every minority group that possibly could sold all their assets, built colony ships, and set course for planets charted by Hubble and its descendants. This went on for about twelve years, and then, almost without notice or reason, Earth went mad. Nuclear war - nobody's sure why - and a nuclear winter. The colony ships lost contact, of course, and went their separate ways, finding all kinds of alien life, and each establishing their own civilisation - or in some cases, remaining as drifters and wanderers. Mars and the Jovian colonies found that there was equal investment in surviving without Earth, and in building colony ships, and opted for the latter. Earth and the solar system were left empty, and eventually, they were lost to the memory of the scattered starflung humans.
Now, skip forward three thousand years. An exploration ship has found ruins of a dead civilisation on the third planet of a minor star. Invesigation has shown that the inhabitants were human, and the time frame proved it. Earth has been found again.
Religious groups, archaeologists, fanatics, acadamics, pro- and anti-human groups from across the galaxy are converging.
So. Sci-fi is scattered, but a few of the people involved in Angwels are still about. Between those and new volunteers, I figure something could be made of this shared world setting. Is there interest?
(All credit to
bluedevi and pennydreadfuls for providing the third reminder of the old shared worlds in a week.).