aliens

Djindak Koorliny is a space opera setting that I've been working on sporadically over the past decade. Frankly, I still think it's kind of mostly a Star Trek rip-off, but hopefully with enough unique ideas and takes that folk will find interesting. The title phrase "Djindak Koorliny" is from...

Groggily, I groaned as my eyes fluttered open, waking up with my breath hitched, my head pounding like it'd been run over by a train, and my body aching as if it were only a couple of seconds ago that I was rock climbing. The faint sounds of electricity crackling intermixed with loud and...

Your name like that of many can end up being largely irrelevant to you and others, but you (and a few others) know yourself to be Dhiihlitte. You are a member of the fabled and grotesque precursors, or at least that is what your species will someday be known as. Today you know your species as...

The entity was experiencing something that the bipedal lifeforms that dwelt on this planet would describe as 〔Confusion〕 Of course, such a limited word as "confusion" could never truly be adequate to describe what the entity was feeling. By all logical conclusions, the entity had been destroyed...

Worm crossed with Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End, so expect major spoilers for Childhood's End. This post reserved for quick links and resources - and to make sure that spoilers aren't found on screenreaders. Note this follows the book, not the mini-series. This story is being moved from...

In time long ago, even more ancient than the great war, before anything was brave enough to crawl upon earth, there were already several developed species and worlds rich in history and technology. In such times, there exist but a few truly advanced star-capable civilizations that have mastered...

=}+{= =} Clouded Dreams {= =} Neo-Okinawa 04.10.2179 {= OC "[…] all powers granted to a corporation or to the management of a corporation, or to any group within the corporation, whether derived from statute or charter or both, are necessarily and at all times exercisable only for the...

=}+{= =} Clouded Dreams {= IC Thread Discord Link =} Neo-Okinawa {= Heat, thin air and spores that get into lungs and mechanical systems. In many ways Neo-Okinawa is the kind of planet that would be nothing more than a navigational note in the steady expansion of humanity and its both...

The first few seconds after the Dive always feels like drowning, before my body remembers that the water I'm under is pumped so full of air that I can breathe it. Then I inhale - and don't choke on water. I finally relax, weightless and free, nimble as a bird in the air - or maybe a mermaid in...

The year is 2223 AD. The Human race is nearly eradicated.For one hundred years, Humanity had been traveling the stars, establishing colonies, and growing the civilization of Humanity, seemingly unfettered. No obstacle was too much for us. Then, they came. The Strangers, as they are now referred...

In the Early years of the 21st Century, History would come to an end. One single experiment at the Black Mesa Research Facility had gone awry and like a stack of dominoes, our reality crumbled. Despite the brutal and ferocious efforts of the Hazardous Environmental Combat Unit, the Facility had...

Grant looked down at himself. He didn't feel any different? Wasn't he supposed to have transformed into a cute magical girl? Not that he wanted to or anything. It was what he had to do for Justice. Before he could finish his rationalizations though he got overwhelmed with the spells that made...

Voidtraipse: Questant For a better idea of what this Art Quest is about check the threadmark index for a summary. Opening post to change. "New Reader, Skip Ahead Here" will be added when the time comes. 🛑 This narrative is likely to explore mature themes. These will range from existentiality...

[ACCORDION width=75% block_align=bcenter] [SLIDE title="Our Evolving Creature... (click to open)" align=center] The bacterium in question is as long as an adult man's finger, with all the bits and pieces inside that an amoeba needs to survive the new world's shenanigans.[/SLIDE] [SLIDE...

"And now we have another wailing tune from our public domain library. This is Fuck Your AI by Trogg Hats and the Seven String Samurai!" The radio announcer switched over from his cheerful baritone to the wailing guitar licks of Trogg really going to town on an electric. It had been recorded in...

You didn't know browsing left-wing websites and some good old fashioned internet piracy would get you killed one day, but here you are. Guess you should have gotten a VPN after all, huh champ? That's one thought among legions of others running through your head at the moment but it's the one...

Kim sat down at his desk with an audible grunt as he cradled his steaming hot coffee in two hands. It was a cool morning with a light breeze, like every morning in Hawaii, and like every morning he fully expected to see the same thing on the telescope readouts: junk. Radio noise and asteroids...

In the vastness of the cosmos lies a red dwarf. Petty in comparison with other brighter and bigger bodies, that solar system was selected as testing grounds by a being of immense power and unsurpassed knowledge. For its work there, this being became known as 'The Maker'. Using your planet...

For some reason I was under the impression that I had been permabanned, but I just randomly decided to log in today and see and it turns out I wasn't. Huh. Anyway, the idea is as follows. The backstory starts as a typical sci-fi/space opera universe, with various alien races developing...

Darkness. A darkness so deep and black that it suffocated all those that gazed upon it. There was nothing to see, to do, to hear, to feel, just a blankness so expansive that it made a mockery of all measurements any being could invent. To even call it darkness was to uplift the word, it was far...

I sip from my pipping cup of coffee, the flavour and aroma calming and soothing my caffeine craving. The light background chatter of the cafe is lovely white noise as I savour my drink. My coffee break is the best part of my day, a moment to relax and reflect on my day. The little chats I have...

Originally written for Worldbuilding Exchange (and thus available on AO3) on the theme Law in Space, and the specific prompt « Finally, for aliens—what laws do we put into place for first contact? What do regular people do if they encounter an alien, possibly for the first time? Are there...

In the Grim Darkness of the Future, there is only death. A vast empire of corpses led by fanatics and madmen wage eternal holy genocide against their foes, defined as those who diverge from their doctrinal teachings and any and all species outside their own, a slowly dying shell seeking to bring...

The story of Humanity in the dark future is the descent of Man into fanatic barbarism: The story of a fall from shining heights of power, knowledge and bliss in ancient times, to a present nightmare of ignorance, misery and slaughter. Descendant Degeneration Audio Version by A Vox in the...

With the hundreds of diplomats, sages, leaders, scouts, scientists, filework nerds, and errant warriors around to choose from in Lodestar's hull's big meeting hall to share our thoughts through embraces, there was one I hadn't been able to get out of my head all evening since she walked up to a...