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[Question] [ I'm making a series where a multi-purpose frigate travels to Jupiter in order to help in the Mars versus Jupiter war. However, I don't know what the colonies would look like. Maybe floating with engines? Would they all be on the moon? I need an idea! (By the way, your answers are right. Saturn would ...
[Question] [ The night queen has invaded the northernmost part of easteros with an army of ice wightwalkers. They have surrounded a castle called summerfall, trapping our heroes inside. Various armies of different nations have put their war on hold to unite against this common threat. The future is bleak and everyone...
[Question] [ Extremely advanced civilization on a computerized space station orbiting a desolate uninhabited planet. There are no other known civilizations within this station's sphere of observation. Not many people on the space station have any scientific knowledge whatsoever because the station is fully automated,...
[Question] [ It's not finished yet, so it's still pretty empty. But I can't stop worrying about the rivers and mountains, so I ask for help. It's about 1100-1200 miles from north to south. [![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/PuSdB.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/PuSdB.jpg) [Answer] I notice ...
[Question] [ **This question already has answers here**: [Speeding up time?](/questions/44963/speeding-up-time) (5 answers) Closed 6 years ago. Have re-edited question and changed the frame slightly as the other one speaks about a specific alien-generated time bubble and I'm asking if it could really be happen...
[Question] [ In a [previous question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/60622/can-a-one-gendered-species-evolve-sapience/) on my purely peaceful, 100% pacifist species, I asked about how to remove all defining characteristics for sexuality yet still retaining sapience. As was pointed out, I had asked ...
[Question] [ The world is divided in several factions. Among them : Insects and Humans. When I say Insects, I don't mean insects : insects are the little creatures with six legs while Insects regroup all [social insects](http://blogs.cornell.edu/naturalistoutreach/files/2013/09/Social-Insects-I-26beuxe.pdf), namely ...
[Question] [ The more I think of it, I don't think mutants would want to be identified as mutants but not all of them will be super heroes or super villains. In a modern western culture, what would the politically correct term for Mutant be? [Answer] Scientifically, humans with natural genetic alterations would be...
[Question] [ I have a setting where I want the atmosphere to basically be filled, heavily and consistently, with a bunch of small, airborne bacteria-like cells/microscopic biomatter. For the sake of keeping the question focused on the effects of the actual environment at hand, let's disregard any and all effect these...
[Question] [ **Background:** If we look at the past (especially in countries from the early C.E.), a lot of empires collapsed for many different reasons. These reasons are mainly (not exclusively!) going to be an economic collapse, lack of fast communication, corrupt leaders, and/or rebellions among the common folk. ...
[Question] [ It's the early modern period. A few Alpine villages, maybe a little town or two, get temporarily cut off from the rest of the world due to heavy snowfall. How can they communicate with the outside? How heavy would the winter have to be for human messengers to no longer be able to travel through mountain ...
[Question] [ The human body contains mana, the life force that can be used for use as a source for magic. The individual's capacity for mana slowly grows with time as the person ages into adulthood, finally reaching its limits during middle age, and then steadily declines. This serves as the basis for magecraft, the ...
[Question] [ I've got a world with a long oceanic navigation tradition, but no reliable steam engines. Imagine it's the 1600s in our timeline. There's two superpowers (think two Chinas), and between them an ocean the size of the Atlantic. In the middle of that ocean is a small island, a couple kilometers wide, and ut...
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[Question] [ So there was a nuclear apocalypse. It doesn't really matter why. Most people now, about a few decades or so later, are scavengers. They take pre-nukes things and use them for shelter and utilities. This woman, we'll call her Jane, she decided to use all of these old vehicles as shelter. Only, Jane has t...
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[Question] [ I am inspired by [Dr. Robert Schoc's](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_M._Schoch) hypothesis that the Great Pyramid and Sphinx date back to a lost civilization from 10,000 BCE. *The Question:* Suppose an asteroid/mega solar flare/etc. reduced today's humans back to a hunter-gatherer state; but afte...
[Question] [ **This question already has answers here**: [What if the earth were physically split in half?](/questions/18432/what-if-the-earth-were-physically-split-in-half) (6 answers) [Can a shattered planet still hold a breathable atmosphere? [closed]](/questions/102758/can-a-shattered-planet-still-hold-a-b...
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[Question] [ I am thinking about an alternative - history scenario, where humans were able to discover and use electricity, in a 12th-13th century. I don't need any complex devices, I want to make society study focus on electricity usage. What would be the most reasonable explanation for it and where this discovery c...
[Question] [ On a world I am building, the defining feature of the world if that the days last 9 years instead of 24 hours. This means that the species' living on the world must always migrate to keep up with the short band of habitable land. They would live on the poles, but at the north pole lies the largest ocean ...
[Question] [ I've done a question about [Aerial battle of knights riding flying creatures... How would they fight?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/79065/aerial-battle-of-knights-riding-flying-creatures-how-would-they-fight), that was put [on hold] for being too broad. So I'm splitting the question ...
[Question] [ I'm putting together a design for a large land based walker style weapon, the machine has missile rack above and 2 large railguns/coilguns/cannons on each side. Aesthetically I'd like the design of the cannons to have between 3-6 barrels and law wise be a coilgun. The weapons are intended for anti-infant...
[Question] [ In a science-based universe with a species physically similar to merfolk, so tails and arms, what weapons would they develop for use during the stone-age phase of their existence? These would be used both for hunting and for skirmishing with other tribes although fights involving more than 30 or 40 peopl...
[Question] [ So, my MC was a scout that was part of a team from Contact Bureau that belong to a Space-Faring Civilization. They had descended on some 'primitive medieval-esque' Planet for scientific studies to judge about the possibilities of integrating the planet inhabitant (or at least part of them) to his parent ...
[Question] [ Ok, so Sergey Brin decides to become immortal. He allocates a trivial share of Google's bazzilion dollar profit to research, hires the best minds, and starts eating more healthily, doing more exercise, and cutting down on the cocaine and ecstasy. Let's say that given enough time, computing clusters, sco...
[Question] [ Some owls have ears placed with one higher, and the other lower. If an (otherwise normal) human were to have that sort of thing, only with their eyes sockets (and by extent, eyeballs). For the sake of the argument, let’s assume the right eye is about 3cm higher than its current position, and the left eye...
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[Question] [ Inspired by [this](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/159551/would-the-us-government-of-the-1960-s-be-able-to-feasibly-recreate-a-modern-lapt) question. A time traveller appears in two situations in the year 1985 1. in front of Steve Jobs and other Apple high ups 2. in front of few federal...
[Question] [ The city is modern/futuristic and is fairly large. It was designed to be self-contained, and has been sealed shut for a thousand years. All human residents died, so there has been no maintenance. There *are* living beings (monsters/demons as well as things like rodents, insects etc.). There are also thin...
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[Question] [ I was roleplaying with my siblings, and one of them had selected the Shaman Class I devised. A Shaman's power over the elements comes from their connection to said elements, so their place of origin determines what elements they can control. As a joke, since this sibling had selected the Island backgroun...
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[Question] [ This rogue planet is a cold rocky world where liquid methane replaces water, hydrogen is used in place of oxygen, and a large moon. I was thinking the large moon would have a large tidal pull that keeps the mantle active and generates tons of geothermal energy for the plants to use in place of sunlight. ...
[Question] [ The original, irish lore around banshees has it that they merely foretell the death of someone, but do not cause that death. American pop culture has changed this, so they do bring death and destruction - as seen in various media such as videogames, books (I remember there was a malicious one in some Har...
[Question] [ I am writing a Steanpunk novel and am interested in having a "plausible" Union Steam Gun that would help turn the tide in an Alternate History American Civil War. The gun can be either a machine gun type weapon that is operated by two or more soldiers or a hand held carbine or type weapon handed out to U...
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[Question] [ As the title say, can a planet have a different gravitational pull depending on its location in orbit around its sun? Is this explainable without magic? [Answer] Not easily. An orbiting object has the feature of being in free fall, which means that objects on it are not subject to gravitational...
[Question] [ In a land similar to the Roman Empire, slaves are used to drive machinery. Mostly this is a matter of getting them to pull carts or wind handles. The Emperor wants a clock that is accurate to the minute, powered by slaves. With the technology of Ancient Rome and unlimited slave-power, how can such a cloc...
[Question] [ I'm building a world for a role-playing game campaign using the [Stars Without Number](https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/226996/Stars-Without-Number-Revised-Edition) system. Some background information first: **Stars Without Number Original Setting:** In the original story provided by the SWN book, ...
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[Question] [ In commentaries to my other question @JustinThyme suggested that [high-functioning autists could be the best space colonists](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/a/92432/39490): > > A great deal of very successful scientists ARE autistic. Einstein, for > instance, [showed autistic tendencies](https...
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[Question] [ I’m new to worldbuilding and have started building my world last week. The world that I'm trying to make is a paranormal fantasy but as I was building the world I had an idea that I wanted to experiment but don't know how to approach this. The idea is each country in this world has a setting based on a s...
[Question] [ To clarify, I don't mean "whoosh kapow" laser rifles and I don't mean the handheld rocket launchers or plasma cannons fiction often tries to pass off as railguns. The weapons I'm referring to operate more like the Boeing Laser Avenger and Mass Effect weapons respectively. The laser rifle is used on low ...
[Question] [ I have a magic system in which mages can enhance existing power sources (such as taking a small spark and building it into a fireball) or launch pure 'magical' attacks. Generally their magic is only good at direct immediate applications of force/energy, no long term effects or subtler magics; but they ca...
[Question] [ So...I will first describe the world. The main difference is that it is populated by humanoid bears instead of humans, but the countries are roughly the similar (there are countries that don't exist in our world such as Medwedia, the main superpower, but China, Russia, Great Britain, the USA, Germany, et...
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[Question] [ A nation wants to utilize a large, currently brackish & endoheric body of water for irrigation & drinking. Damming the rivers & moving the water from there isn't considered viable for the reasons that they want the inland sea to remain intact, & that the areas where the rivers enter the lake are on the e...
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[Question] [ I want to have a mountain range in my continent that splits it into two parts, such that it is incredibly difficult for them to communicate. How could I pull this off in a plausible way without having to resort to magic? [Answer] Doesn't this already happen in real life? The Urals separate Asian Russi...
[Question] [ The very large trucks are mining truck size. They can haul 300 to 100 tonnes of ***Thing™***. They can be outfitted to carry containers. They have a roughly equivalent curb weight to their payload. They can travel at up to ~100kph. They need wide, level, dedicated roads. But they can travel at most of th...
[Question] [ I'm creating a cold-climate fantasy world and would like to replace all (or most) inspects with bats. Bats would come as small as bees, all the way up to ride-able size. Big ones eat smaller ones, etc. Fantasy world, so it doesn't have to make 100% sense, but I'd like the concepts and interactions to be ...
[Question] [ I am writing a story in which the average temperature of Earth falls by 150C (270F) over the course of five months. That should be cold enough that, according to a source from Kurzgesagt, the ice caps would meet at the Equator. With such a process taking place, when the caps connect, how smooth would the...
[Question] [ My sci-fi civilisation has discovered how to make things out of unobtainium. Because of Quantum Space Magic, it is (for this purpose) unbreakable, perfectly reflective, and completely inflexible. The obvious difficulty of making "invincible" armour from this is the vulnerability of the joints, as they cl...
[Question] [ As evident by the title, this is a Class-related system. So, what exactly do I mean by "Rogue's Dagger?" Simple-a dagger made for a Rogue. Small, easily concealable (size of a dinner knife? I'm not sure they're *small*), perhaps even folding (like a pocketknife, perhaps?) and with a built-in crowbar and ...
[Question] [ I'm really not interested in creating a language for my world, especially having to make up names for the peoples and places. Or drawing maps. Mainly because I'm neither a good linguist nor a good drawer, and worried it will turn out badly like some other series I've read, or be too similar unconsciously...
[Question] [ Mana is the life energy of elves that allows it to function. These elves are similiar in design to human beings. When an elf becomes pregnant, the developing fetus feeds off of its mother's mana, abosrbing it into itself and allowing it to grow. This is minimal during the first few months, with more mana...
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[Question] [ # Context In the animé Attack on Titan, armed forces use a special device called 3D maneuver gear (also called vertical movement gear) to move through the air. The system is based on a pair of grappling hooks shot from the waist, and compressed gas. The gas is used both to shoot and reel back the wires, ...
[Question] [ This is the continuation of a thread of related posts on a hypothetical alternate universe/Light Plane. Other posts from this thread are here: [How To Make an Earth with 27 Suns Work](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/111855/how-to-make-an-earth-with-27-suns-work) [Radiation Levels and Ef...
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[Question] [ In this story, the world is in peace, **until the Lightning nation attacks**. Because of the peaceful period before, this particular nation under the attack of the Lightning nation is able to learn about the creation of the lightning. The general idea of electricity is sufficiently known: 1. It can be gr...
[Question] [ What materials would be significantly better than currently commonly used radioactive materials (Uranium/Plutonium) for energy generation? I am looking for some material which could've been brought (so it doesn't need to occur naturally or commonly) to Earth long ago, kept hidden for thousands of years a...
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[Question] [ Year 2077 C.E. someone invented a one way time travel into the past safely, the problem is that anyone can replicate the method with ease due to the proliferation of All-In-1 Advanced 3D printers and the weak anti-piracy law. Since it is impossible to stop **anyone** from going into the past can we at le...
[Question] [ I am building a world where a system of weregild or blood money can be paid when someone was killed by another. Renumeration by the murderer in money for the death, according to the value of the life lost. I already know that the social status of the victim influenced the amount paid to the family in oth...
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[Question] [ In a nutshell, what are the pre-requisites for having sailing ships fire nuclear cannonballs? The setting is entirely alternate-universe, so the available material can be a lot more naturally "primed" for military use, but not so much as to create a high likelihood of a nuclear natural disaster. Also, a ...
[Question] [ So, using [the background of the main question here,](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/10218/horses-for-absolutely-everybody-how-it-came-to-be) if a peasant could own a horse, possibly multiple, how would an army with access to that many horse be like? Would their army become entirely mo...
[Question] [ I recently came across a rather strange question. > > If you were given the chance to be a person of the opposite sex for two days every week, would you take it? > > > So I'm going to take this question one step further. **What if this trait was genetic and unavoidable?** Every weekend, every person ...
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[Question] [ It's a typical trope in stories, but why don't the powerful good guys fight the powerful bad guys? Usually a group of nobodies need to grow in power to the point that they're able to face the powerful bad guys themselves. I'm making a setting and I need some good reasons for why this is the case. I need ...
[Question] [ I am creating a sci-fi world for tabletop RPG and I have trouble with one thing and that is artificial gravity. What I need is to come up with some ideas for in-world reasonable explanation for the technology of artificial gravity used in ships or stations, which I can provide to my players, but I have a...
[Question] [ Hell is the bottomless realm that devils occupy, which exists alongside the material world of humans. This realm is further broken up into infinite mini-realms, each with their own type of devils, as well as souls of damned humans that have descended to that particular realm corresponding to their sins. ...
[Question] [ I had a unique idea for an alien planet. The surface would be snow-capped mountains and glacial fields, it's cold and essentially devoid of most life. But just underneath the towering mountains would be this whole other world. A vast interconnected web of caves, tunnels, and hollows that essentially act ...
[Question] [ I need a weapon that is shoulder fired that can deal with heavy monsters such as a minotaur and the likes, but light enough so that the user can carry at least another small arm without to much hassle. Two of the weapons I am considering arming my explorers are either a rocket launcher the likes of the b...
[Question] [ The [related question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/9642/what-would-be-favoured-weapons-and-weapon-styles-of-a-four-armed-human) about possible weapons for four-armed humans provoked me to ask one of my own. I have a technologically advanced (to somewhere of the Mass Effect levels of...
[Question] [ Radio waves travel at the speed of light. Communication across vast interstellar distances is difficult due to weak signals and slow multi-year duration. I honestly imagine it to be like old times with message couriers travelling the empty void. Any ideas for a somewhat realistic concept for quick commun...
[Question] [ The Swarm are a species of semi-intelligent insectlike alien robot evolved from a self-upgrading machine designed to clean space junk. They are widely known in the galaxy and regarded as a threat, yet nobody can pinpoint the locations of their hives because of their advanced cloaking field. The anatomy a...
[Question] [ Let's say that a civilization has access to FTL. Let's say it is instantaneous so travel time between solar systems isn't a factor. How long would it take for them to spread out from their home solar system? Like how long would it take for them to colonize 1000, 10000 or 100000 solar systems? Let's say w...
[Question] [ I have a species that is born with small wings, that grow to be able to carry them by the magic of handwavium, but they are human in all other respects. It’s the Middle Ages, and the inquisition has started. The church is hunting down my species for impersonating angels. The adults whose wings can carry ...
[Question] [ So, on the planet of Qualia, a tiny island of the coast of Da’Tora called Saluk has disobeyed Tora VII the Slaughterers rule, which is never a good idea, as you can guess from the name. He stationed his fleet around the island, and decided to sink it under the sea, to show his enemies that he means seri...
[Question] [ So, before a large nuclear war engulfed the earth, the USA government ordered two private contractors, Gene-Tek and Atlas Biotech, to create a disease called Hyper Necrosis. It is supposed to make a person decompose while they are still alive and conscious, at least until the early black putrefaction sta...
[Question] [ A spacefaring people buries their fallen heroes in space. The bodies are adorned in uniforms (fabric), equipped with the weapons they carried in life (mostly aluminium, steel or polymer, but containing no battery, chemical explosive, flammable or corrosive), and sealed in tough polymer coffins, which are...
[Question] [ Is there a realistic way that a [Charybdis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charybdis)-like creature could evolve? Starting with roughly earth-like biology, what is the closest plausible creature to the mythical Charybdis that could exist? Charybdis is typically depicted as a gigantic mouth or mouth-like ...
[Question] [ How realistic is it that in the future someone invents plants that can live on top of the Antarctic ice sheet or are floating on ice like in the Arctic? [Answer] **Glacier mice.** [![glacier mice](https://i.stack.imgur.com/q35TD.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/q35TD.jpg) <https://www.mentalfloss.com/a...
[Question] [ In my Fantasy world I thought it would be interesting to have a creature whose eyes would be precious gemstones or crystals. I want to understand how that could be possible, and if any ramifications could come of this. The world is not highly magical, so a non-magical solution is desired. For instance, I...
[Question] [ Somehow you managed to knock out an elemental shape-shifter. Where do you put it? Elemental shape-shifter: A person who can change their body to the four classical elements: Earth (like the material), Fire (think Johnny Storm), Water and Air. Assume that you are a multi-billionaire, and that you have ac...
[Question] [ I’m interested in realistic and practical fuel or power sources for vehicles (particularly military ones), where there are no fossil fuels available. The setting is 400 years in the future. The only hand-wavey bit is FTL travel to nearby star systems, to explore and colonise. Most of the planets discover...
[Question] [ In a fictional world, I'm trying to create a sword progression that makes sense. My two options are: 1. wood $\rightarrow$ granite $\rightarrow$ bronze $\rightarrow$ iron $\rightarrow$ steel 2. wood $\rightarrow$ bronze $\rightarrow$ iron $\rightarrow$ steel $\rightarrow$ granite So my question is: would...
[Question] [ What would the world, and more specifically, productivity on modern computers, be like if Undo (a.k.a. Ctrl-Z) functionality has never been and will never be invented? To clarify: there is no functionality on a modern-day computer that lets you undo and/or redo your action, in no software whatsoever. You...
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[Question] [ One unique way of making a reptilian humanoid is a rather fanciful joint in which human-like shoulders, including the extension of the shoulderblade, are seemingly stapled to the sides of the ventral face of the chest. Such an anatomy is seen, for example, in the lizalfos from LOZ:BOTW [![A botw Lizalfo]...
[Question] [ I'm working on a steampunk-inspired low-fantasy setting where combat is primarily conducted via WWI-style artillery. Airships are employed extensively in ship-to-ship and ship-to-ground warfare, and are countered by fixed ground batteries that are more powerful and longer range than those employed on air...
[Question] [ In a future web-series I want to create, there is a species of massive humanoids named giants (*Homo maximus*) (technically, they are still humans, just not *Homo sapiens*). They are less social than anatomically modern humans, they are as solitary as orangutans. Giants are also omnivores with herbivorou...
[Question] [ Leaving dragons a little aside, a memory came to my mind when I researched about mythological/folk creatures that fly and remembered a very peculiar one: the Firebird. It's basically a glowing bird and it fascinated me! I want a bird like that for my world, a bird that many characters can have as a pet. ...
[Question] [ **Is it possible for a land organism to break the sound barrier via running?** I may make an organism that can move faster than the speed of sound, however on this planet the main components of air is *Hydrogen Chloride* and the speed of sound in hydrogen chloride is **964 ft/s, 294 m/s, or 657.2 mph.** ...
[Question] [ ### Scenario: **We woke up to find that the ocean starts to mystifyingly drain at warp speed, it drains in a speed that it will completely drain the ocean in a month**(The mysterious draining only happens to the ocean, other water sources will not drain) ### Goal: ### Survive to the utmost --- Illustrati...