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Hello.
I am designing a sci-fi universe. And it's still very rough around the edges, though a lot of the core stuff is there. The basic premise is that a few decades from our modern era, a small percentage of humans begin manifesting an ability that allows them to manipulate the rules of the universe in a way that allows advanced space travel.
Fast forward about two thousand years, and there are now hundreds of planets in the Worlds of Humanity, organized into groups of worlds called Unities, many of which are based on cultures back on earth. (For example there's a Unity that's primarily inhabited by the descendants of the Polynesian people, one by the descendants of Africans, several that came from Asian cultures...) Others have developed entirely new cultures without any analog to old Earth peoples.
In order to get a better feel for this universe, I want to write character-focused stories that take place in the universe. But I lack a lot of ideas.
So here's your mission: Give me character-based writing prompts. I don't need anything outlandish. Just things you'd like to see a character doing in this universe. Some can be everyday actions, others could be more drastic.
I have one idea right now, which is where a parent (or parents) are telling their child the story of how they met. They'd both be scientists assigned to survey and colonize a frontier planet, and their child was one of the first born on this new planet.
But yeah. Any ideas would be great. No promises I'll actually write them...but I'll try, and if I do, I'll share them.
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Ranting too much? About a fictional world?
Never heard of it.
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No, no, I'm hooked.
I'm feeling a cross between Skyward and TSSoS, but I don't know if that's what you're going for.
SpoilerTSSoS because of the lack of aliens, and then sudden discovery (the Xenosuit and the Planet-speaker vs. the wormhole)
Skyward because I immediately thought the humans were shoved through the wormhole by the other aliens, into a sandbox where they couldn't hurt anything.
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TSSoS?
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