Starbound: What Do You Want To Do In The Future?

[gothwalk]

So I'm working on this science fiction setting, Starbound. There's a post coming up on duekstreet.org wherein I'll tell you some of what I want to do in it. Meantime, though, I want to do some market research. What do you want to see and do in a scifi setting? Some bits are preset - it's going to be epic-scale, stretching across many solar systems, and high tech. It'll be used for short stories, maybe even novels, possibly comics, and certainly RPGs. Give me a wishlist.

(I'd really like to see a lot of responses to this, by the way - even if they're just "Die Shatner Die", or "I want lots of dakka", it's all grist to the mill.)

Comments

[mytholder.livejournal.com]

Currently, what I'd like is a stylish, upbeat galatic empire. Biiiig ships, big scale. Alien aliens, technology that allows wonders while still being comprehensible (no technological singularities here). Hmm...something lihe Regency Star Trek, only with less idealised and more stylish characters. Swashbuckling with lasers. Traveller, only not so hidebound and much, much cooler.

Travel should be steamship-esque...it takes you weeks or months to get to another system, but there is some sort of FTL drive or short cut.

AIs. AIs are cool.