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Pretty simple idea, this. If you've got a setting you love to work on but aren't ready to unveil it as a whole--or if you just came up with a great new detail or quirk that really ties the setting together--feel free to post about it here. This is for snippets about whatever creation you've got on your mind today. To start, today I solidifed how interstellar travel will work in my original setting. Humans and other races of the universe will use a form of Alcubierre drive, essentially like the warp drive seen on Star Trek; it operates by folding space around a vessel and moving the craft to a destination in less time than a beam of light could travel over the same distance. One theoretical problem with this device is that as the vessel warps through the space between worlds, microscopic particles may become caught in the spatial bubble formed by the warp drive. These particles could become "supercharged" by the experience, so when the ship slows to a stop, it would release a pulse of deadly gamma rays and high-energy particles powerful enough to obliterate the destination. Not good for colonization or peaceful space exploration. What I decided is purely speculative, and may not actually be feasible--in my setting, starships will actually turn this obstacle into an advantage. Instead of allowing these particles to form a lethal death pulse around the ship, vessels utilizing this form of faster-than-light travel will absorb the particles and use them to power the ship's internal mechanisms. Essentially, these ships will pick up their own fuel as they travel through interstellar space, both removing the threat of destination destruction and making faster-than-light travel much cheaper and more attainable for the average galactic citizen. (The destructive capabilities of the Alcubierre drive are not left untapped, however--the infamous voidrenders of the Risu Empire deliberately accumulate interstellar death-particles for use against unprotected planets.) So that's what I've been thinking about today. What's changed in your setting today?