space opera

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).

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...

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...

Timeline Ante Flore (A.F., AF) Post Flore (P.F., PF) {TBODY} {TD}ca. 6000 AF{/TD} {TD}-{/TD} {TD}The end of the CRADLE TIMES, discovery by the Slavers.{/TD} {TD}ca. 5600 AF{/TD} {TD}-{/TD} {TD}REBELLION OF SELMA, beginning of the Hundred Year Pursit.{/TD} {TD}ca. 5500 AF{/TD} {TD}-{/TD}...

5909 GSY Hiigara The scream of twin ion engines split the air, then rippled with a series of thundering booms that sent tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of gull winged birds from their roosts. The sleek shape of the Triikor - angular nose, offset railgun, back-swept aerospace foils, the...

To one and all, this is my first posted story in... years? It's gotta be years. You can only lurk so long and keep so many folders full of Dogbertcarrol-esque 'pilot episode' fanfictions before something has to give, I guess. The premise comes from a small prompt I saw about a story pulling a...

The universe is young. The amount of time between it's beginning and now is orders of orders of magnitude less than the amount of time between now and the end. Yet all things must end, and also must all things begin. The First It's a lonely thing being the first. And yet, someone must. []The...

In the Wake of Glory The Dawn of Space Travel has brought mankind to the Precipice of Knowledge and Challenged its Will. Its will to Act, Explore, to Grow, and Change. And with that challenge came those to meet its expectations and surpass them. Science, Literacy, Culture, Music and Art...