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[Question] [ Following this question: [How can I implement time travel on a somewhat realistic way?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/200484/how-can-i-implement-time-travel-on-a-somewhat-realistic-way) Considering I have a way of getting energy into the past (as said on the previous question), I need...
[Question] [ In my setting, wizards from a pre-industrial fantasy world come to real life. One of these wizards is a destruction mage recruited by the US military and tries out her talents against modern forces. Her favorite spell is lightning bolt. She simply shoots out lightning at whatever target she wants. Once r...
[Question] [ Humans build big rockets and fly generation ships to extrasolar planets to settle. There’s already sentient alien life on that planet, but the humans has none of the immunizations and natural resistance to diseases that the aliens do. How am I going to prevent the humans from dying en masse and going ext...
[Question] [ In many fictional franchises we see people like the Flash who can move at speeds defying physics. In my story I want to include a speedster, however I feel that they would be too overpowered for the setting. So my question is how do non-speedster characters defeat those with speeds equivalent to those ...
[Question] [ In a world that I am building, there are two countries that both are fairly primitive and only have medieval methods of transportation. They have a huge meeting every 100 years. Other than that, they don't visit each other often, except during huge international crises. They have a five thousand miles wi...
[Question] [ I'm trying to develop a matriarchal Empire for a story, but the main issue I'm having is that I don't want the women to all be warriors or magically physically stronger etc. The setting is essentially medieval-esque Europe and Asia, though there are differences that aren't really relevant to this questio...
[Question] [ **Ork advantages:** 1. Strength: orks are, on average, twice as strong as humans. 2. Reproduction: ork females rarely die in childbirth and usually have twins. 3. Height: orks can reach up to almost 8 feet tall. 4. Growth: ork children typically reach full size around 13. **Human advantages:** 1. Intelli...
[Question] [ **Background** World has had a disaster that has caused a global breakdown of society, along the lines of Fallout or The Walking Dead (90% of people have died or been turned into flesh-hungry zombies.) In the five years following this society-changing event a number of settlements, camps and towns have a...
[Question] [ World I'm building a sports league. The sports league has 21 teams. This led me to a question that's an interesting intellectual puzzle I thought this forum would like: Could the 21 teams wear different strips/kits/colours? They would have to be distinguishable at a glance. Say you want 6 teams to have v...
[Question] [ If a great division occurs, sealing two warring cultures apart for many generations, my only explanation so far is a tectonic shift. I imagine water flooding between a long split. But as I understand it such shifts are quite slow and wouldn't fit the context of the story, wherein being "locked" on the wr...
[Question] [ **Closed.** This question is [off-topic](/help/closed-questions). It is not currently accepting answers. --- You are asking questions about a story set in a world instead of about building a world. For more information, see [Why is my question "Too Story Based" and how do I get it opened?](https://w...
[Question] [ I have magical insect repellent that prevents nuisance1,2 insects from landing on me, biting/stinging me, or congregating within, say, 1m of my face. Would I still want to employ insect screening on areas that are always air-open to the outside? If so, why? For example, why would I want to screen in a po...
[Question] [ **Background**:As humans throughout history, [we've been trying to make a time telling device](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_timekeeping_devices "wiki page on history of timekeeping devices"). It makes sense, too, you'd want to know what time to plan and arrive at certain events. With that in ...
[Question] [ Is there any science-based way that one could explain cars running not on natural gas (autogas) but rather on noble gasses like Neon, Argon and/or Xenon? [Answer] Noble gasses are called "noble" because they don't interact with other elements (same way as nobility of the past didn't mix up with lower ...
[Question] [ I, Charlemagne Darwinius, am a great scientist who has devoted his life to the study of the evolution of different species. Priests speak of man being created by a supernatural being called God, who became increasingly angry with them due to their descent into wickedness. To punish man, he sent a great f...
[Question] [ So, let’s say a certain type of person steals a Time Machine and travels to Berlin August 1st, 1939. He shows his time machine to Adolf Hitler, and tries to give him advice necessary to win WW2 before it even starts. My question is, what advice should he give? [Answer] Put Guderian in charge of the in...
[Question] [ When **some** humans, humanoids and mythical creatures have an incredibly powerful magical regeneration it seems quite obvious that in times of need and growth some countries would try to capture them and use them as ''basic resources''. This is not really a spoiler because it's on the first 2 pages of t...
[Question] [ ## Premise Suppose a world has no other means to deal with a potentially devastating meteor impact than creating a net on the planet. Their hope is that the massive net will catch the meteor and slow it down as much as possible to avoid apocalypse. They have ample time to prepare for the collision, but t...
[Question] [ Game of thrones has [Orell](https://gameofthrones.fandom.com/wiki/Orell) who uses an eagle to [scout](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JleOZg0Ybok) the area. And in the real life, birds of prey have up to 8 times visual acuity of the humans. They are able to see white rabbits camouflaged in a snow from 4 ...
[Question] [ Lets assume, by the means of some advanced scientific discovery, scientists find a way to teleport simple matter to any part of the world and use this process to teleport fresh water and/or small icebergs anywhere they're needed for drinking water. **Question:** Is there enough fresh water in the world t...
[Question] [ So here's the thing. During the Age of Kings, all the kingdoms in each region of Itheria are at peace for 500 years. They maintain a close relationship with each other and even hold councils every 5 years. They trade with each other every month. All the kingdoms have armed forces enough to fight against ...
[Question] [ Imagine a metal canister capable of holding massive amounts of air or some other compressible substance. If it were filled with enormous amounts of said fluid and dropped from a plane, how destructive would it be? I am aware of "lazy dog" weapons that were destructive just because of the weight (and thi...
[Question] [ In this story, set sometime in the future, most farm animals have gone extinct due to diseases. I remember reading somewhere that the average human has around 100 thousand calories, meaning that one human could last for about 50 days. In a world where humans die very quickly so a lot of humans are born t...
[Question] [ When writing stories I usually use war as a simple and understandable way to introduce a conflict that needs to be resolved or sweeps the character away. To keep it interesting I need to build versatility into the weapons and gear of the characters. After all at best I can say "he hits/misses". It's ever...
[Question] [ **This question asks for hard science.** All answers to this question should be backed up by equations, empirical evidence, scientific papers, other citations, etc. Answers that do not satisfy this requirement might be removed. See [the tag description](/tags/hard-science/info) for more information. I've...
[Question] [ A kind of soldiers in my world can use certain magical equipment to launch themselves into the air and stay airborne (sort of like gliders. They need to keep moving ahead; they can't hover much). Note that they need to keep their hands free whenever possible; they use magical gloves on their hands (and f...
[Question] [ In the story I am developing, there is an intergalactic community with a plethora of different sentient species, each with its own languages that vary depending own its vocal anatomy. There are universal translator implants that act as a brain-brain interface and allow all kinds of beings to communicate ...
[Question] [ I'm working on a small story, and in it I'm wanting to include a city surrounded by multiple layers of walls. The walls themselves are colossal, but were created/held up by sorcery. I would go into more detail, but this question was about the city itself and not the walls. I'm looking at a size of roughl...
[Question] [ **introduction** My world is made of a super-continent with very little isles, it has 100 countries, 97 of which are on land. 3 of those are underwater for folk who are able to live confortably in the depths of the sea. Most of those countries are on the east side of the continent. The center of the cont...
[Question] [ I am working on a Hard Sci-Fi novel. In this novel Humanity has set up a drilling operation on the fictional exoplanet *Hela*. They are drilling for *Trivesene*, which is an Oil like viscus organic substance found in reservoirs underneath the oceans. Trivesene can be turned into the solid *Petramene* tho...
[Question] [ **Closed.** This question is [off-topic](/help/closed-questions). It is not currently accepting answers. --- You are asking questions about a story set in a world instead of about building a world. For more information, see [Why is my question "Too Story Based" and how do I get it opened?](https://w...
[Question] [ TLDR: how long would it take modern day humans to adapt to an incident where dungeons appear on earth and spits out monsters? I am writing a fantasy/apocalypse novel set on modern day earth. One day, 60 dungeons appear on earth and monsters invade from it. These dungeons are different in the sense that ...
[Question] [ In a world where there is ever-declining population due to a phenomenon that has no satisfactory explanation, what could cause war or large-scale armed confrontations between countries or sections of the society? Assumptions: * No births have happened for a while. No new pregnancies are happening. * The ...
[Question] [ You are an dishonest time-traveler from the year 3100. You would like to travel back to our present day, and with your advanced technology, convince us that you are a god. You have unlimited energy, nigh-magical future tech, and few morals. How would you make most of the industrial, fairly educated peo...
[Question] [ I'm creating a planet, and I want it to be: * A windy place, with ocean everywhere (like the earth) * The same pressure & composition at sea level (like the earth) * Only one biome: A beach. The entire world would be a beach; no matter what land you're on, it's a beach. Is this possible? If not, what are...
[Question] [ I'm trying to build up a set of weapons for an RPG system and I'm trying to make a semi-realistic system that tries to strike what I think is a good balance between complex enough for a semi-realistic set of rules while keeping those rules easy to understand. Right now, I'm looking at the two-handed hamm...
[Question] [ I decided to create a robot swordsman for my story and I would like to know exactly what are the different advantages he would possess over biological opponents. Also what design choices would make him a better swordsman? The only restrictions I have with this character are that he must be humanoid and t...
[Question] [ **Closed**. This question is [opinion-based](/help/closed-questions). It is not currently accepting answers. --- **Want to improve this question?** Update the question so it can be answered with facts and citations by [editing this post](/posts/140222/edit). Closed 4 years ago. [Improve this question...
[Question] [ I'm trying to make a place that is a part of a nation but not under its government's rule, specifically a mental institution. It has dark secrets within its walls. I want to write a mystery story which contains lots of dark themes, and a detective needed to find out the mystery behind it without the he...
[Question] [ I'm new to asking questions so please forgive me if i'm strange. I have a species of plant-based dragons. Small, covered in feathers and intelligent. I just want one thing backed up for me because I haven't been able to find anything to back me up: **Can a wing and an arm merge together?** Dragons are na...
[Question] [ Could a creature plausibly exist with its diet consisting of consuming ice, possibly for hydration? I'm unaware if it needs a secondary diet for nutrition, but how would its metabolism feasibly work? [Answer] As L.Dutch stated in his answer, no creature can live on ice alone. There simply is zero nu...
[Question] [ **This question already has answers here**: [Would a full body diamond armor and sword guarantee survival and victory against a medieval battalion?](/questions/54324/would-a-full-body-diamond-armor-and-sword-guarantee-survival-and-victory-against) (26 answers) Closed 4 years ago. I have been brows...
[Question] [ We, the house of Habsburg, are a royal family that descend from the gods. Our founder, Cersei Habsburg, conquered Europe and brought peace and stability to the dregs of the continent. After taking her 3 brothers as husbands she founded the Habsburg dynasty. Our demigod status awards us the power of pyrok...
[Question] [ In this medieval world, I want to set up a clan system that builds up every kingdom. Every kingdoms will have at least 3-4 big clans/families, each is unique to the theme of the magic they use. For example, clan Warr'og specializes in blood magic. Magic power is inherited, and people know "exactly" how t...
[Question] [ In the course of events in my world (tech = 1920-ish, but no airplanes. Maybe blimps.), a large archipelago nation is invaded by a naval superpower. The archipelago nation, which had been developing aircraft in secret, engages its airforce and wrecks the enemy fleet. Is this possible? More specifically, ...
[Question] [ Is there a way to sharpen stone weapons? In a society with no metals whatsoever, which is therefore using stone for their weapons, can the cutting edges of those weapons be sharpened? [Answer] **Absolutely, yes.** Historically (and prehistorically), most sharp stone tools (projectile points, scrapers,...
[Question] [ I am looking to create a scenario in which the nobility and peasantry of a medieval kingdom speak the same language but different versions/dialects. Scenario parameters: * The nobility can understand the version the peasantry speak * The peasantry cannot understand the version the nobility speak (they ma...
[Question] [ So this is for the same story as my ["Boats for tall people"](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/115199/boats-for-really-tall-people) question earlier, but not about boats. In this world there is one religion that almost every race has a different interpretation of. For example: The really...
[Question] [ My story takes place in an isolated community where the people realise the importance of genetic diversity. They will have some problems relating to inbreeding if they don't get fresh genetic material, so it has become a custom for the young women to seek out travellers/outsiders for simple couplings hop...
[Question] [ > > Count Bobbert of Frugundy has many children, and he has sent his third > son, Preter, to be raised at the court of Duke Wudlig of Brutsels, > both to honour his ally and to allow the child to benefit from the > many scholars and clergymen in the court of Brutsels and receive an > excellent education...
[Question] [ I want to make a musical instrument specifically for my dogfolk or other high pitched sound species that can't be heard naturally by humans. I also want to know if is there a way to make a drum that would achieve such sounds? Because I want to include the drums as a musical instrument. Besides I don't kn...
[Question] [ So I've been inspired by [this](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/123534/2053) question to ask what would a medieval war against an airborne hominid (let's call them harpies) be like? Basically most of the assumptions about the meerfolk of the linked question hold to harpies: 1. Technologically p...
[Question] [ **Context:** It is set 50 000 years from "now" in no-FTL interstellar setting. The idea is that active defences and armor of spacecrafts have obscenely advanced to the point that any projectile has to get on the collision course both quickly enough to not get obliterated on it's way and reach at least do...
[Question] [ I've been working on designs for some model starships, in particular warships. My working assumption has been that the designs and materials for these ships will reflect the way that the civilisation itself conducts warfare. **Purely as an example:** a warship that uses particle beam weapons will be shap...
[Question] [ We've found all sorts of interesting stuff in arctic ice & permafrost around the world. [Bacteria](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/melting-glaciers-liberate-ancient-microbes/) & the like far older than the more media friendly [mammoth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woolly_mammoth) specimens ha...
[Question] [ I'm writing a story with a fantasy-adventure-like background. The usual world where adventurers take quests and explore dungeons, but instead, I want my main focus to be on the support roles. Those include alchemists, blacksmiths, librarians, etc. The main character is Leo, an average alchemist who just ...
[Question] [ Excerpt from the great Dalian Holy Book ***”The Dark God, the Tayan, was first formed when the gods above sent a curse down to the surface, to remind our people of our dependence on our gods. If the Tayan is not fed, it will rise from its slumber in the underrealm and devour the Cosmos”*** I have been wo...
[Question] [ In my science fiction story, there is an extraordinarily powerful species of alien that can teleport humans. They do this by disassembling a person's body into molecules or atoms and simultaneously reassembling it in a different location using other molecules. My concern is how the person could retain th...
[Question] [ In space, normal weapons are so easy to dodge because by the time you see an enemy ship and fire at it, it's already moved out of the way. Now imagine a weapon that travels backwards in time as it flies though space so that when it arrives at its target, it converges with the exact time and location that...
[Question] [ I am looking for a plausible explanation as to why approximately every few decades something happens that destroys surface electronics and then continues for several years. Ideally it would be unpredictable. I've looked at handwavium <https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/a/217778/94879>. I think this ...
[Question] [ The inhabitants of my Earth similar world have a preindustrial society, but have managed to create airships. These use plywood, hot air and relatively thick material for the envelope. But these inefficient craft are fully practical thanks to the recent discovery of *Heavenium* which can reduce the weight...
[Question] [ As a background, a team of seven astronauts embark on a journey through space. Their aim is to find the source of radio waves that have been attributed to communication from a distant planet (referring to an exoplanet). The astronauts reach their destination in six months in a powerful space ship, with "...
[Question] [ Magic in a certain world works as follows: * Elvish is the "language of magic", meaning all magic is chanted/invoked using Elvish * To invoke the `fire` spell, the user must: 1. Chant "fire" in Elvish either out loud or in their head 2. Understand the meaning of "fire" in Elvish (you can't use it witho...
[Question] [ I'm designing an alien tree species that produces small purple fruits at the edge of its branches. Now, a few seconds after one of these fruits falls from the tree, it makes a small explosion, so that its seeds can grow into new trees in a different location. My question is, how could such a mechanism ...
[Question] [ So I have various factions with submarines and surface ships battling it out for control over various underwater resources. One of the rarer and more lethal weapons is a "stealth torpedo". It presents a serious threat when employed because as its name implies, it is very difficult to detect and, by the ...
[Question] [ **This question already has answers here**: [Building a Megalodon proof boat](/questions/27090/building-a-megalodon-proof-boat) (2 answers) Closed 7 years ago. The [Megalodon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalodon) was an 59 feet (18 meter) long shark said to have roamed the entirety of Earth's ...
[Question] [ The enemy boss just threw a spear at you, you tried animation cancelling to iframe and dodge the projectile spear but your finger slipped off the controller and now you've got a spear piercing your skull through the mouth and stuck on a wall, you are basically hanging off the spear like a sack of dead me...
[Question] [ I am building a sci-fi universe where humans have colonized the moons of Jupiter. They are very small and thus have low gravity. In fact, some of them have gravity equal to less than 5% of Earth. What would be a believable sci-fi way to artificially increase the surface gravity to make the moons more hos...
[Question] [ Mana is the life energy of the soul that is bestowed by nature. Everything is born with a certain amount, with humans containing the most. When something dies, it's body naturally decays and supplies the ground with nutrients. It's mana dissipates back into the environment. However, there are times when ...
[Question] [ This is possibly not quite the right place to ask this question but it's fundamental to the world I'm working on so here it is; if faced with a potent existential threat, in the form of an outside force, how will the human race respond? The current scenario I'm working on looks a bit like this; humans ar...
[Question] [ Let's say the city covers about 40 square miles (104 square kilometers), that machinery and some oil refineries are still usable (for construction vehicles), and that there is a lot to salvage in way of constructing walls. In addition, let's say one would have to be athletic to outrun infected humans. Th...
[Question] [ The drug should have the same effect as heroin, but without being addictive at all. Is this chemically possible? [Answer] [Larry Niven's Known Space writing universe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Known_Space) included a device called a [Tasp](http://larryniven.wikia.com/wiki/Tasp) which induced elect...
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[Question] [ Whenever one thinks of something new to introduce to war I always think: Yeah. They were smarter than you and more experienced. They had the ability to think of your basic idea and did not. Probably for a reason. But I'm curious to actually find out. Lets imagine a portable watchtower that can be constru...
[Question] [ Let's say there are 2-3 people in a carriage (or van,boat, or anything with a similar size), constantly on the move, unable to hunt (because of reasons) and of course unable to stay in one place and have a farm. What food would be better for them to get the most nutrition they could carry (and grow the f...
[Question] [ Imagine a planet orbiting a star some billions of lightyears away from us, the planet is 4 times the mass of Earth and is covered with ice 100km thick on average. It is believed that liquid ocean exist beneath that thick ice sheet and it could harbour life, any way I like to know how quakes can occur nat...
[Question] [ (Hoping this isn't another too-broad question...) I just want a different way for my aliens to breathe that isn't obvious to a human's eyes; it makes them seem like they don't breathe at all, and their chests don't rise and fall with every inhale-exhale. [Answer] Double set of lungs: imagine a creat...
[Question] [ In my story, a portal links the modern world to a medieval fantasy world. This is sort of similar to *Gate: Thus the JSDF Fought There*. The North Korean military decides to go through their portal and acquire more land and resources for Kim Jong-Un. The first polity The Korean People's Army encounters i...
[Question] [ Sealing magic is a specialized form of magic that is used to bind and trap supernatural creatures. A mage who specializes in this area would normally use seals against demons, either to contain them within certain objects or to prevent them from crossing a barrier. These seals would block the demon from ...
[Question] [ In this world, mutant animals and humans exist on earth, along with regular people. The MC can instantly teleport anywhere on earth freely (his super-power) no matter the distance, and can teleport objects he can touch up to the size of a small house. The technology for mutant society ranges from primiti...
[Question] [ I'm writing in a fantasy setting. My goal is to have noble houses which derived from monarchy but not a monarchy itself. My idea for what happened is this: Once upon a time, there was monarchy--there was a king and his subjects were given noble titles and territories. Then, along came a bunch of wizards,...
[Question] [ So, a little while back I suggested Chinese-style paper armor as answer to [this question.](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/a/186337/70058) While it was well liked, a couple people mentioned that in the MythBusters test it didn't hold up very well when it got wet (translation: it slowly disintegr...
[Question] [ I'm designing a roleplaying game set in a colony in a distant star. I'm no scientific expert and I don't want the setting to be hard sci-fi, however, I do want it to be credible. What plausible reasons could there be for a colony on an alien planet to lack transport infrastructures but still have access ...
[Question] [ In my world, electricity has not yet been discovered, and many advancements in society progress on a purely chemical or mechanical basis. Lasers are incredibly useful and multifaceted tools, and I would like to be able to include this technology in my world. I could imagine multiple sources of light (as ...
[Question] [ I am writing a scifi story in which Earth's orbit has been altered, making the planet generally colder. This has made the northern hemisphere, as well as most of the southern, practically inhospitable. Due to this, most of humanity died and took the global distribution chains with them. A couple centurie...
[Question] [ Sometime in the near future, a sizable population of humans has transported, through unspecified means, to a habitable super earth that has a much higher oxygen content than on Earth. Now, to the lay man that may sound like a good thing, the issue is however that too much oxygen can result in [Oxygen Tox...
[Question] [ Suppose time-travel is common. There is someone who I want to eliminate for nefarious purposes of my own. If I go back in time and kill that person, then surely it's murder, but what if I go back and stop them from being conceived - say by preventing their parents from meeting. When I return to the prese...
[Question] [ Deserts are known to be hot and dry places. In my desert, I need a high humidity in the air. It doesn't have to be near the ground, but at least the atmosphere below 1 km should have a layer of high humidity. This should be a consistent condition throughout a season if throughout it is not feasible to ma...
[Question] [ I have previously asked [this question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/73128/vertebrate-like-creatures-with-more-than-four-limbs) about the plausibility of large six-legged creatures, but I decided to split it into several more specific questions because of the advice [here](https://me...
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[Question] [ On the planet I’m making, there was a big flood that happened and raised the sea level by 30 meters. I want the planet to have a cold climate, so I can’t simply explain the flood by saying it was global warming (because then the planet would be too hot). Also, the temperature before this flood was -10°c ...
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[Question] [ World War VI happened in year 2xxx and the government went AWOL. No federal, state, county government. Chaos and anarchy ensued, and Charles Hestion IX [1] felt his ancestor's efforts paid off. Ammo and guns are the most valuable commodity. Now the dust has settled a bit and some communities are forming,...
[Question] [ Assume all radio communication bandwidth used in interstellar communication is standardized to a certain fixed range and all must be frequency modulated but know that no agency is keeping track anymore. So depending on the specification of the propulsion drive, some spaceships can achieve close to 0.01c,...
[Question] [ Consider the situation where a subset of the population in modern times has a power that allows them to consume their life to temporarily increase their speed and/or strength. In a fight, what weapons would they use? # Details about the power The power works by removing time from the end of a person's li...
[Question] [ I've got a setting where a small group (10 million) of survivors rebuilt semi viable civilization on a distant, hospitable planet. They used superscience teleportation, actually their technology is not much better than early XXIst century. They've lost contact with other human groups for almost 100 years...
[Question] [ I am working on a story which is based on space time hacking and moderation. While researching I found that a wormhole is simply a Folded time-space-as shown in demonstration below (Image credits: shutterStock-taken from [here](http://www.space.com/20881-wormholes.html)): [![Wormhole](https://i.stack.img...
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[Question] [ This is for a story set in a Renaissance-era type society but with improved scientific knowledge from spirits / divination or some such with common elemental magic (Earth, Wind, Fire, Water...) and Alchemy (Chemical Element Transmutation...) In Counterpart-Europe, how long would it take to train a villag...
[Question] [ Throughout science-fiction, from Star Wars to sundry others, we see characters manipulate holographic images as if they were solid objects; shaping them, tapping them, manipulating them like some kind of 3 dimensional touch-screen, even though all they are are projections of light. How would this work in...