space opera

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...

Authors Forward: Hi, This is actually the first story I had ever written. It was originally written under my Reddit account ( Reddit - Dive into anything ) on HFY about 2 years back now, But i never felt like it belonged on HFY, so I had stopped writing it. I only recently found SB and SV, and I...

This is not a versus. This is not a 'who would win'. This is intended to be as true and honest to both source materials, taking characters and exploring them as best as possible, enriching both worlds for the interplay of the two, and is expressly character and narrative driven. If you expect a...

From the cold depths of space, beyond the armor-plated cockpit windows of the ship, a jolt and a crack rustled Gabriel awake. Only a few minutes on site and he'd passed out on shift. Panic washed over him as he grabbed the flight stick between his legs at the sight of an asteroid directly in...

You were sitting back in your chair and nursing a serious headache as General Hall decided to cut things short and kill a man before your very eyes. He flicked through some papers - unthinkably ancient technology, brought into vogue in a universe where quantum teleportation and sentient...

Through the Gates: a Space Opera GSRP Thirty years ago, the gates opened. Since then, there has been a scramble throughout the galaxy to claim and colonize new systems. However, even as nations build research stations and colonies, even as they begin to develop diplomatic relations with the...

"Oh. I've been stabbed. Neat." That was the only thought that could stay in his head. Rain pounding the pavement, the cries of his best friend and the girl he had been too scared to confess to mixing in the background of life in this shitty part of the city. He knew they were trying to tell him...

The UNN Calypso hung somewhere between the second and third planet of the solar system LHS-228 and waited in the lower edges of the semi-real dimension that a 21st century physicist had exasperatedly called 'the bloody space opera field' – and unwittingly given a name for what would provide the...

(Credit to @Furrybacon for making my ms paint hex grid into an actually good looking map) Through the Gates: a Space Opera GSRP Many have looked up at the stars and wondered if they were alone in the galaxy. Few expected the answer to be such a resounding "no." Every spacefaring civilization...

STAR CHORES Episode I THE BANTAMWEIGHT MENACE It is a period of complacency. DOM OMINNIX, former Jedi apprentice, has returned to his rustic forested homeworld after failing to complete his training at the Jedi Academy on Coruscant. Although displaying untapped potential in the ways of...

Foreword: Semper Finis Mundi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrmXan1qA2Y It is October 1648. The belligerents of the war that has consumed millions of lives across the Empire over the last decades have convened to sign a peace in Westphalia. It is September 1945. A coalition of imperialist and...

Olympus Mons Supercity, Mars Deep within the single largest underground city in the entire Solar System, the Martian people had been thrown into chaos. Sensor operators pored over consoles as they attempted to pinpoint the distant dot of blue and green from which the human race was spawned...

SYNOPSIS In the far future, mining corporations and planet barons have claimed every world under the suns. But Kestrel Mining Inc. have an ace up their sleeve. Nomads known as "rogue planets" drift in the darkness between stars, loaded with potentially-lucrative mineral resources just waiting...

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...

I decided to post some of "my" AI art here, I hope you will find something inspiring for your world-building, character design etc. I used some of these pictures for my own book "The Core of Rage" (mostly for environment design).

10:36 P.M., Friday, June 17, 2163. Krasnoyarsk, Siberian Federation, Earth. You slipped into the club with a rowdy pack of modders; somehow, face control didn’t even see you. Sheltered among the punks’ titanium arms, polymer skull plates, and luminescent irises, you hoped the reflectiveness...

January 3, 2553: The men who've trapped my team in the middle of the Athens-13 temple complex are no mere pirates. They're too coordinated for that; they've cut off our escape routes and comm relays with the practiced precision of any of the espatiers of a Great Galactic Power. Too well...

By almost every estimation of value, our galaxy is a rich place. Millennia of cultivation and culture have imbued it with layers of history and wonder. The galactic government known as the Commonwealth has long worked to channel and enhance this bounty, in time creating the vast network of...

A sci-fi thriller space adventure involving AI, aliens, mysteries, and explorers terraforming planets - join me as I release chapters every Saturday. Synopsis: Trillion wasn't expecting to have her mind uploaded into a spaceship today. But it happened and now there's no turning back for her...

Infinite Possibility: A Space Opera GSRP OOC thread Starting Stats 90 A.C.SPACE EMPIRE Country Politics Government: Leader(s): Ideology: Alignment: Capital: Stability: 1-10 (1 bad, 10 good) Notes: Economy Size: Pathetic-Tiny-Small-Medium-Large-Huge-Overwhelming-Galactic Growth...