17th Shard Communal Worldbuilding Thingie - Mark II

[Channelknight Fadran]

Well here we are again

it's always such a pleasure

...remember when you tried to kill me twice?

 

Here's the doc! If you're unfamiliar with this sort of thing, we're basically just working together to worldbuild something crazy and awesome together. We try to come to agreement on the important stuff and sort of just let the lesser inconsistencies slide in favor of hijinks.

Edited June 8, 2023 by Channelknight Fadran
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[The Aspiring Archivist any pronouns]

17 minutes ago, Channelknight Fadran said:

Well here we are again

it's always such a pleasure

...remember when you tried to kill me twice?

Spoiler

Oh how we laughed and laughed

Except I wasn't laughing

Under the circumstances

I've been shockingly nice

You want your freedom? Take it

That's what I'm counting on

I used to want you dead but

Now I only want you gone

 

Edited June 8, 2023 by The Aspiring Archivist

[Channelknight Fadran]

@PyroPhile just because you can just vote for everything doesn't mean you can just vote for everything

[The Unknown Medallion he/him]

Oooh. I like Low Fantasy Space Opera. Judging off of last time, having lots of places for people to do their own thing is fun. And aliens. Aliens are fun.

Edit: the doc is locked @Channelknight Fadran

Edited June 8, 2023 by The Bald Brandon

[Channelknight Fadran]

I'M DUMB

I'M REALLY REALLY DUMB

G I M M E     A      S E C

[Channelknight Fadran]

okeyday we're good now

[Szeth Pancakes he/they]

2 minutes ago, Channelknight Fadran said:

I'M DUMB

I'M REALLY REALLY DUMB

G I M M E     A      S E C

I’ve literally forgot to give doc access more times than I can count it’s ok

[Channelknight Fadran]

Update:

there be dragons

 

(blame Pancake Boi)

[Mat he/him]

Can I help worldbuild if I know there’s no chance I actually join any RPs that would use the world?

[Channelknight Fadran]

yes please! Cause our hijinks to hijink more

[PyroPhile]

1 hour ago, Channelknight Fadran said:

 

@PyroPhile just because you can just vote for everything doesn't mean you can just vote for everything

 

But i like everything there

[Channelknight Fadran]

W E L L

we did some things

(check the doc if you want the debate, but here's the gist so far):

The gist: Dragons are the god-emperors of the local cluster, and have finally decided that the humans of earth are worthy of joining le evil empire.

• The dragons were the first species to evolve to intelligence in the local cluster, and took over their galaxy and then the neighboring ones because they’re super stronk.
• Dragons are incredibly powerful by default, wielding powerful magic and also just… y’know. Being dragons. But then they also meld their incredible power with technology to effectively become gods.
• Rather than wiping out all other intelligent life, the Dragon Government™ will incorporate them into a little fraction of their empire. Once a society becomes powerful enough, they are approached and appropriated via whatever means the dragons need. If a society does fight back, they are very quickly subjugated - y’know. Power armor magic supermonsters.
• The dragons will often invest early on in races with potential, pushing them along to becoming significantly advanced enough to serve Le Dragons’ needs. Humans have pretty much taken over their entire system by now, so the dragons recognize them as profitable.
• There is a caste system within dragon society, because of course there is:
  • Dragon God-Emperors: It’s a royal court of only the most powerful dragons (politically and magically), who all play off each other in obvious power struggles but ultimately just maintain the status quo of “dragons subjugate the lower dragons and lower races.” They don’t have their scales, because that would impede their magic.
  • The semi-royal court: kind of like the barons and earls and such of dragon society. Representatives of entire dragon worlds or system, but in the grand scheme of several galaxies are far less influential than the god-emperors. Most don’t have their scales either (for the same reasons), but some do.
  • General dragon upper-class: just sort of reputable families and dynasties. They’d be influential in their respective systems/planets. About even on scaleless (going for magical prowess) or scaled (feels they’re less magically-talented or whatever)
    • A lot will provide elite warriors to the Royal Grand Army.
  • Regular dragon “middle”-class: still very much dragons living in a perfect utopian society. They can pursue their dreams, rise in the system, never be in want… they aren’t genetically-engineered to be anything specific in most cases, but often are enhanced as an egg to be generally better at most things.
  • Dragon Blue Collars (for lack of a better term): These dragons are the workers, and are bred from birth to be one very specific kind of worker. In Plato’s Republic these would be the “Guardians,” who are given a specific role at birth and expected to maintain it.
    • Includes the soldier class, who are objectively more powerful than their other blue collar brethren but are also kinda sorta bred and taught to obey soooo
  • Dragon Peasants With Benefits: Dragon peasants who get to keep their scales
  • Dragon Peasants Without Benefits: Dragon peasants who do not get to keep their scales (because  r a c i s m). Obv they do the nasty manual labor jobs (the kinds with high danger that the dragons can’t send their wimpy alien slaves to do. Star mining and black hole maintenance and whatnot)

 

So some things we still need to decide:

• The magic system (note that the dragons are very powerful magically)
• everything else

[Szeth Pancakes he/they]

@Channelknight Fadran

[Edema Rue she/her]

Can I join even if I just show up like once a month and have no clue what I’m doing?

Edited June 8, 2023 by Edema Ruh

[Channelknight Fadran]

go for it

[Mags she/they]

Hiiiiii

I would love to be involved if that's alright

hopefully I'm not too annoying I feel like every time I go on the shard I join a new thing and then forget about it

[Channelknight Fadran]

dude, I made a public google doc. Go ham.

[Channelknight Fadran]

MAGIC. SYSTEM. It’s a magic system that basically just lets v intelligent beings (like dragons and peoples) control reality with their mcbrains.  A powerful magical energy permeates the entire universe, driving every force of nature along in its path of creation and destruction. Dragons were the first beings to harness this energy, calling it Magic and using it to conquer the galaxy. By expanding your mind brain and tapping into this energy field, you can learn to manipulate the most fundamental aspects of nature. After much debate we’ve (kinda) settled on these categories of manipulation:

• Spaceshaping: Space, time, spacetime, and all that jazz (obv not time travel - or I guess maybe time travel but it’s outside the bounds of anyone’s abilities)
• Waveshaping: Light and sound and such
• Powershaping: Chemical, Nuclear, and maybe some quark stuff idk
• Notably, heat overlaps all these sections as Le Entropy.

Edited June 8, 2023 by Channelknight Fadran

[Channelknight Fadran]

 

[xinoehp512 he/him]

Y'all have done some STUFF while I've been gone.

[Channelknight Fadran]

indeed!