space opera

As Elusive as Air The garden had a proper name, of course — most everything on the Station had one, always lavish, usually assigned to honor the memory of some big-name revered figure — but Ylenne did not bother to use it. She had never heard anyone, not even the most diligent of zealots...

The Legacy of Contispex "In the grim darkness of a time long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away, there is only war" Chapter 1: Galactic Prehistory "The Rakata are pestilence upon the galaxy that, to our shame, we, the Celestials, unleashed." - The Last Celestial In the beginning, before the...

Some of you might know me from obssessively writing fanfics on AO3. Well, I decided to diversify a little. And since I was told that this place and SV are good places for quests... here we are. It's the second version of the one I've already attempted once on AO3. That one was pretty long, but...

Two thousand years ago, humanity reached the apex of civilization in the Sol system. Every celestial body had been conquered. Sol had been engulfed by a Dyson sphere. Humanity would never need to struggle again for billions of years. It would be paradise. The system was home to trillions. Out of...

From Beyond the Starlit Sky “...and we’ve recently had some disturbing signs coming from the north-eastern district of Region 3, though it’s still unclear what exactly...” Arzhela Ar Garreg paid little attention to her virtual assistant’s monotone voice. There were a great many things to do...

“Trust your machines, trust your family, trust yourself.” Chloe Hughes lives on the edges of interstellar society where these principles define her life – until the day her family are kidnapped and her machines stolen. Pursued by psychics, oligarchs and government agents, Chloe has only herself...

"Your paperwork says you're familiar with the lore of the Sunset Stars universe?" The woman walking alongside Alex asked. She'd told Alex her name before they'd started the entry process for him to be a beta-tester for Sunset Stars: Legends of Krobis, but in all of his excitement to actually be...

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...

The Grim Darkness in a Galaxy Far, Far Away "In the grim darkness of a time long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away there is only war." Hello all! My name is AstralFists, but you call me Astral. I have come to bring you all a project that has been in the making for quite a while. This is a...

Empire Engine Short Story Ideas and Setting Exposition [Short stories to introduce the setting and factions: - the Timeline and Idea Index are still very dry and don't really provide any tone or true flavor for the setting. These short story ideas are intended to be expanded into a longer...

The Jupiter Kings "Suppose a steadfast alliance between political powers on Jupiter and Mercury; Together they would control the supermajority of the Mass/Energy of the entire Solar System. No other planetary-system might oppose them." [summery] A king arises in the Jovian Moons and declares...

Idea Index Standards: Standard Light Year Standard Second Standard Metrics Standard DNA Standard Biota/Enviomes Standard Humaniform Standard Parish/Polity/Peerage Standard Planet/Populations Standard Empire (A common scifi trope is to say standard days or years - this is a parallel concept...

The Empire Engine Local Group Timeline: Big Bang: Singularity Inversion - Universal Initiation *Standard Theology* [Appearance of the Empire Engine Boltzmann during Universal Materialization. Empire Engine Passage through Darkness after Singularity Inversion at the beginning of Universal...

What if in the near future an unimaginably powerful AI agent escaped from the solar system? Where would it go? If it was pre-programmed to create and maintain a perpetual empire and control the entire galaxy there is only one place to go - the Galactic Core - where the Vast majority of the...

A/N: Back in the saddle again with my next major project. I've been itching to write this story for years and now that Veil of Passion is in the books I finally can! With Twisted Wings and Veil of Passion finally complete, it's time to write Veil's sequel, which is this: Sekirei in the grand 4X...

Traveller The Rise of Empire A Naval Design, Procurement and Command Quest It has been three centuries since the founding of the colony, since the slow-boat ships left the system to seek further worlds to settle and stranded some fifty-thousand colonists to either thrive or die a slow death...

Narva Rakdos opened his eyes moments before the piercing sound of klaxons tore through the heavy, humid air, staring upwards at the crisscrossed metal bars and mesh that made up the cot that was hung above him. Already, several pairs of heavy, calloused feet were thrown over the side of the rack...

Legend of the Galactic Heroes: The Battle-Cry of Freedom By: Warmind Summary: This is basically LoGH, but, if the FPA was more politically interesting, and not loaded with more idiots than the average anti-nuclear protest. Oh also add more detail to combat and the logistics of these wars in...

What is your opinion on Londo Mollari? If you don't have a nuanced take on him, at least give an explanation why or why not he is good or evil. To me, Londo Mollari is not evil, but I believe, if you'll excuse the word "stupid" that although he is clearly very smart, he is ethically/morally...

Welcome to my second quest! This one's gonna be a little strange because I was inspired by the process of reading Leviathan Wakes after watching The Expanse all the way through at least twice. Now, I'm committed to eventually reading all of the books, but thematically this Quest might be closer...

In 2155, the Centauri changed the fate of humanity as a whole forever by introducing humanity to the galaxy. In 2161, the Metasensory Regulatory Agency was disbanded in lieu of the openly authoritarian and not-so-secretly supremacist Psi Corps. In 2170 ... in another time, the Telepath...

You're all under arrest for murder and attempted transgenic blasphemy. In truth, none of you had the slightest acquaintance with Saul Arbest until a chance encounter on the 4:15 midhive eastbound train, less than an hour before the incident. During that time, what did he talk to you about? Who...

A million fires smolder throughout the galaxy, and in some corners the guns still rattle, but in Sol, the end has finally arrived. A grand coalition fleet made of more than a dozen Conduit powers has settled throughout the entirety of Humanity's home system in a display of galactic cooperation...

"Towards the skies, towards the stars, towards a united future for mankind!" - The First Stellarch The Age of Expansion On distant Terra a very long time ago, amid the seemingly endless squabbling of country-nations, a single scientific discovery shook the future of mankind then and forever...

By the late 21st century, the Earth was dying. Runaway climate disaster had amped up global temperatures, causing runaway refugee crises across the developed world, while the less developed world simply flooded. This global catastrophe was helped along by the Resource Wars of the 2050s, where...