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[Question] [ In the story of my video game, I want a group of colonists to land at dawn on an alien planet and have to terraform or build protective structures before sundown (several earth days). I want the death of the colony if they fail the lethal dose to be within less than an hour, so I would prefer to have a b...
[Question] [ **How much larger and heavier should swords be in order to combat massive monsters?** Fiction and RPGs are somewhat notorious for over-estimating or exaggerating the weight of swords. For instance, a game system might list a two-handed sword as being 10 or 20 pounds and wieldable only with the most brute...
[Question] [ In a civilisation of robots (of unknown origin) on an isolated, desolated planet, what motivation might they have for purposefully trying to invent organic organisms? [Answer] Robot philosophers and cy-chologists have long wrestled with the great question: what is the mind? The great computer scientis...
[Question] [ Magic lets you take a lot of shortcuts when it comes to fighting, and occasionally do things that normal people may refer to as 'cheating', such as installing a second, redundant heart. In the event the first heart goes down, (suppose someone stabs you clean through it, for instance) the second heart kic...
[Question] [ In my novel, the many moons of Jupiter and Saturn have been colonized, but I'm running into some logistical problems - namely, waste disposal. My first instinct was to dump it on-moon; while this is fine on places like Io, for others, like Europa, it won't work due to environmental reasons. So, would col...
[Question] [ Given a teleporter works by disassembling particles of a person, and re-assemble the same person elsewhere (so I'm assuming the teleport is not working thanks to something like a wormhole), how do I convince people to enter any teleporter? So actually the teleporter do: * Kill someone (Disintegrate all a...
[Question] [ The primary armament of the space warships of a race I am building use an armament that consists of explosive shells that have a rocket engine in them. The idea is that they are fired from the ship using chemical propellants (or rail guns in more advanced ships) and then the rocket engine takes over, dri...
[Question] [ ## User Interface Customization for Spaceship Controls; "In theory, practice and theory are the same. In practice, they're totally different." We often find that what we plan for isn't what actually happens. What we think we'll need, we actually don't and need something else. This holds for camping trips...
[Question] [ So, I wanted one of my species in a world of mine to primarily use tridents as their weapons. I'm not sure of their location outside of a mesa. I did a little research and tridents were indeed used in ancient combat, but as far as I could tell they were rare and mostly used by fisherman taking up arms. B...
[Question] [ My world has a medieval level civilization that has remained unchanged for millions of years. They look and act a lot like humans; they have language, culture, government, literature, and basic tech. But, their civilization has remained essentially the same for millions of years. No new tech, no major c...
[Question] [ So, considering the structure of the head and ears for creatures like cats, dogs, and bears, if one were to make a race with those types of ears (The stereotype cat person, essentially) I am curious how headgear might function. I know glasses might be a problem, and a full helm might cause issues too. I...
[Question] [ The civilization has discovered an semi-unspecified type of FTL drive and spread among stars, but only a small portion of the stars in the galaxy is explored, settled and administered. Beyond the edge of administered space, there are some settled systems, beyond them are some more which are only explored...
[Question] [ Would a satyr wear horseshoes? Horseshoes were invented because stone roads were bad for a horse’s hooves. I’m not sure if a satyr would want to nail horseshoes (goatshoes?) to their hooves, or if they would come up with some way to put shoe-shoes on hooves. [Answer] # Short answer, no. A horse’s hoov...
[Question] [ This excerpt below is from George Orwell's *1984* and it is the character Syme talking about the progress of the official language "Newspeak" and how its goal is to eventually destroy modern language. > > *Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shal...
[Question] [ There are numerous, (*or at least one that I can think of*), horror films which - after watching a short film or video - or seeing a particular thing - the person would be cursed and (probably) die. Is it actually possible for a 2D image or video to kill the person who sees it? How would this have to wor...
[Question] [ In my world an alien creature claims to be from an earth-like planet orbiting a 500 light-years away solar analog star. It tells us that the planet has x mass, y diameter, z orbital period, that specific atmospheric composition etc etc. We're in the second half of 2020s so there are all of the future spa...
[Question] [ In [*The War of the Worlds*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds) the Martian fighting machines are tripods. Aliens are also moving around in tripods also in [*The Tripods.*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tripods) Let's assume that there are good reasons to build legged vehicles to be...
[Question] [ There are [thousands of species of spiders](http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/10/spider-genes-put-new-spin-arachnids-potent-venoms-stunning-silks-and-surprising-history?utm_source=sciencemagazine&utm_medium=facebook-text&utm_campaign=spidergenes-15964) on Earth. Ditto insects. And, prehistorically, the...
[Question] [ In a retro-future version of Earth, one of the main modes of air travel is by gasoline-powered biplane (design circa 1914). [![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/0wWo4.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/0wWo4.jpg) I want these to land in places where in real-life Earth only helicopters ...
[Question] [ Imagine a planet whose surface is perfectly spherical, without any kind of obstacles anywhere. In such a world, it would be a competitive advantage for any lifeform to evolve wheels, as transport and logistics would be greatly increased. It could also be used secondarily as a dynamo that could generate e...
[Question] [ One day, a portal, several hundred meters across, appears without warning above the Atlantic, roughly around the Bermuda triangle region. It hovers in mid air, immobile, 200 meters above the surface of the water. Space in and around it is distorted in such a way that makes it hard to directly see the oth...
[Question] [ [The universe is in a long, slow decline to darkness](http://news.sciencemag.org/space/2015/08/universe-long-slow-decline-darkness?utm_campaign=email-news-latest&utm_src=email) Sorry folks but it's true, read the article! Here's a much edited-down version: > > The universe is cooling down, its stars pum...
[Question] [ So, I am working on a space opera setting. I really like the fantasy trope of sentient weapons or weapons that choose their wielder and transplant that into a sci-fi setting. My concept is that the weapon (let's say it's a firearm) contains a sentient A.I. built into it. It enhances the weapon in some wa...
[Question] [ This is a difficult question to ask since so potentially politically charged discussions and I'm making some large sweeping statements in trends. I am not saying anything specifically about whether I agree or disagree with any of the below, only the trends I believe I see. I ask that we avoid discussing ...
[Question] [ **This question already has answers here**: [How can I measure the distance between two stars? [closed]](/questions/148584/how-can-i-measure-the-distance-between-two-stars) (4 answers) Closed 3 years ago. I am working on a hard(ish) science fiction space opera story, and I would like to get a good...
[Question] [ It appears that multiple planets existing in the same orbit is [theoretically possible](http://arxiv.org/abs/1404.5377). In that case, how would we go about building a second Earth-sized planet and inserting it into some position in Earth's orbital path? I was thinking planet-construction would be more l...
[Question] [ If I have a very computationally expensive task that no current computer can solve in less than 100 years, I could start the task on a powerful computer, get on board my Super Hyper Extravaganza Space Ship ©™, fly at 0.99999 the speed of light for a while, and when I return to Earth the time dilation ...
[Question] [ In my world, a group of scientists prepare for the "inevitable" extinction of man by manufacturing\* true, efficient, social(1) hive minds from Order Hymenoptera, specifically from the wasp waist families Formicidae and Vespidae. They intend for these "Vespoids" to one day reach a similar level of advanc...
[Question] [ Imagine a dwarven city, a fairly backwater one, completely unlike the likes of Erebor or Moria. This one scrapes together barely, and is only as large as it needs to be, which is to say 5 feet tall tunnels and hallways all around, and tonnes and tonnes of dirt and rock around. The city is then now under ...
[Question] [ Aliens are invading earth! Pouring from portals hidden deep in the earth for millennia, they are sweeping aside the militaries of earth with contempt. Modern infantry rifles, even loaded with armor piercing ammunition cannot penetrate their fully body armor suits. So far, the only small arm to damage an ...
[Question] [ What would the effect on Earth be if Mars, in the space of *one second*, disappeared from the Solar System? Just simply was *gone*, leaving no residue, and leaving the space where it had been like it had never existed. Would it have any effect on Earth at all? [Answer] # Mass panic and fears of the ap...
[Question] [ I've been working on the setting for a science fiction novel where one of the questions that came up was: **“How would you design a dragon-like creature so it could sew?”**. Although I worked out a believable solution, it occurred to me that it might be fun to find out how others would answer this questi...
[Question] [ Assuming one had access to all modern technology but couldn't go into space, would it be possible for the protagonist to permanently stay in sunlight? While it would be trivial near the poles during summer and winter, I presume there's no aircraft capable of staying within sunlight around the time of the...
[Question] [ In the world, there are 4 billion happy, healthy Humans. In this case, thanks to the power of magic, it's safe to assume that they also live long, happy lives. Just like we do today! An Evil Villain Bad Guy has grown tired of them, though. He casts a terrible curse on Humanity- they are all sterile! Even...
[Question] [ This scene is commonly seen: A huge starship levitates over the surface of a planet or a moon, staying effortlessly in one place, or moving slowly around at the fixed height. But how? Required properties: * Doesn't make noise or much of the noticeable influence below, except by making a huge shadow. It *...
[Question] [ Many Scify movies, games, and books depict massive space fleets blockading entire star systems during times of war. This is always depicted as forming a straight line across traveled space. While this is an efficient way to establish a blockade on Earth using naval forces, it is inefficient to do this in...
[Question] [ Plenty of stories have done AI's before, but many of them feel unrealistic. If you make an AI that is as smart as humans, but with faster reaction speed and ability to process and calculate certain concepts at speeds immensely greater then humans it makes humans rather pointless. The question I'm always ...
[Question] [ Nowadays distance between countries doesn't matter too much. One of the United State's worst enemies is on the other side of the world! There have been wars that are fought thousands of miles away from the borders of countries it affects. But in medieval and ancient times, there were no planes or fast me...
[Question] [ Here are what I wants in my world: * Early generation of computer with a bulky size and very limited capability, like the text-based computer in Fallout universe. * Limited guidance and detection system. Missiles do exist but the range is very limited and could be avoided with countermeasures or even by ...
[Question] [ Some areas of the evil meant lair are not for the eyes of the average minion. There is only one way in and out of this area, there is no door blocking the way, but a lava waterfall pouring from the ceiling, completely covering the section of the corridor. The lava is actively recycled and a mechanism "op...
[Question] [ First of all, I have searched for a similar question but couldn't find anything. Sorry if it's a duplicate. The idea is this: my fantasy world has, beside regular ones, a set of Amazing Swords™. As the name suggests, Amazing Swords are superior in any aspect, from weight to cutting capabilities, and they...
[Question] [ ## Magic System One of my worlds has a magic system that allows people to produce any element, as well as a small number of molecules. When something is produced using magic, it spawns into existence in front of the user, replacing whatever was previously occupying that space. ## Background Info The mole...
[Question] [ As an ancient organism whom currently occupies a large chunk of a planet beneath the surface, I have a pesky issue with an invasive species. **These humans have decided to colonize my home, mistaking it for an uninhabited Earth-like planet**. There aren't that many of them (yet), but **I have a big probl...
[Question] [ Meet Joe. Joe is generally an average person with one special trait: He loves astronomy and star gazing. However, Joe has a great paying job as a web developer. He earns 120 000 USD yearly and has a fully remote job, which has only two requirements: * Joe needs an internet connection * For legal purposes...
[Question] [ I have an AI character who has [determined through simulation](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/29965/artificial-intelligence-reboots-global-financial-system/) that, though "greed or the lust for money is the root of all evil" is a valid statement, it does not necessarily logically follo...
[Question] [ Obize is an Eden-like moon orbiting the barren terrestrial planet Akaria. This planetary system is special in the fact that the two worlds are complete contrasts to each other. The moon has plentiful liquid water, comfortable temperatures and is perfect for life with conditions (relatively) identical to ...
[Question] [ Let us assume we have our prototypical European dragon representative over here, George. He has four ground-limbs with four clawed digits including an opposable digit on the forelimbs, normally is quadrupedal when walking around, and has forelimbs somewhat longer than the hind limbs, in addition to the t...
[Question] [ I've tried researching this question myself, but the only data I can find is over huge timescales, like situations where the continents have reformed back into a Neo-Pangea. I'm not looking for any real drastic changes in positioning, just relatively minor things like seas disappearing or continents slig...
[Question] [ I’m currently in the works of an alien design, one which lives in the ocean most of its life and occasionally surfaces in shallow waters to mate. It has 4 eyes, with each side of the head having a large eye in the front, and a smaller eye behind it and slightly lower. The larger eye(s) have a large round...
[Question] [ I'm making a world where sub-FTL interstellar travel is a thing, and so is interstellar war, but for the purpose of this question we'll assume the scale to be of a single system. **Spaceships** have evolved quite a bit since our current era, and they range in size from several meters (something like 2 t...
[Question] [ I want to have planet with as deep an ocean as plausibly possible. How deep can I go given these restrictions? * Planet must be in habitable zone of a star * Generally, planet should support life * Size of planet not decided, but I have general idea of something "really big" (Jupiter size and bigger) * I...
[Question] [ To have a fire you need three things: oxygen, heat and flammable material, therefore the cold vacuum of space is the last place you would expect something to burn. I was, however, wondering if a very large damaged spaceship would change this. Suppose for instance that an explosion has happened aboard a s...
[Question] [ When there are spaceships in our solar system, we receive data in intervals, depending on how far they are. Problem is, internet has to be faster. In an intergalactic union, how would a person play the newest MMO in Andromeda, or follow [live updates from the newest beauty pageant?](https://worldbuilding...
[Question] [ My world does not have stagnant technology, and of course there is going to be an industrial revolution. In the real industrial revolution, it began with the need for textiles, which led to the spinning jenny, then the waterframe, and so on. I was wondering how is it possible for a fantasy world to indus...
[Question] [ Here on Earth, Mars and most of others if not all terrestrial planets in the universe, iron is their most common metallic element because iron is in general the most common metal in the universe. Here on Earth, a desert's sands are mostly 1 of these 3 colors: **Beige:** By far the most common color in Ea...
[Question] [ You have an individual who can travel backwards and forwards in time. They normally maintain an observer status but occasionally a butterfly is stepped on. Because, home is where the heart is, how does this person find their way back 'home'? --- The time-travel theory I’ve been considering using is the...
[Question] [ I'm working on a comedic horror about an overzealous doomsday prepper. One idea I was playing with was an escape route, should it be needed... The story centers around a hermit who's been preparing his defenses in the Tennessee hills for years. He's perhaps a little mad, but he's obsessed and he's a bare...
[Question] [ Assume two massive space empires begin to war with each other. Now, they come to a standstill because they are so alike that they are unable to outnumber, outwit, or outmaneuver each-other and come to a bloody standstill (think WWI). One side devises an evil plan to destroy the other. They want to weapon...
[Question] [ Conspiracy theorists love to talk about a group called the [Illuminati](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminati) that pull the strings of world events. While there have been several real (and many more imaginary) Illuminati groups, what would it actually take to have a very powerful group remain hidden ...
[Question] [ Extending upon my prior question, [could-a-viable-interstellar-civilization-form-with-this-technology](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/34462). From what I've read there's two basic ideas which describe how teleportation might work: 1. Destroy the original, only the teleported copy remai...
[Question] [ The Hydra is a mythical creature with the ability the regrow severed limbs, including the head(s). According to the [Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 version of the hydra], each time one limb is separated from the body, it grows back. Sometimes, two heads will grow to replace the lost one, until it reaches a certa...
[Question] [ My modern setting has these humanoids called the Degenerates whose culture draws inspiration from those of Indo-Iranian steppe nomads like the Scythians, Sarmatians and Parthians who fight as mounted riflemen that ride mutated animals donning bulletproof armour. The Degenerates' most skilled warriors are...
[Question] [ This one's more sociological, and it seems like a shoe-in to me, but sociology was never my strength. Given how pronounced the Coriolis effect of a smaller Von Braun wheel would be, does it seem likely that crews on star ships with such environments would habitually develop some odd quirks that account ...
[Question] [ My first post on Worldbuilding, hello all! So my question is what could be some interesting logic or thoughts behind having a lightning magic user being able to fly? To quote another user who wanted to build a lightning rifle... ([Lightning Rifle](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/22347/l...
[Question] [ Let's assume that there's a species of eagles that's about the size of an [Andean Condor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andean_condor) (about 3m wingspan, 1.5m length, 10kg) and that there's a culture that has managed to tame this creature (or domesticate it, depending on what's realistic). Technology is...
[Question] [ On a world I am building, I have a species of creatures that evolved from crustaceans. The problem is that while they have an exoskeleton, they also live on a world with the same gravity as Earth. I have thought of a few solutions, from an extra internal skeleton to internal exoskeleton partitions to hol...
[Question] [ Note that the distinction between *science fiction* and *fantasy* breaks down when you add rigorous rules. If you have dragons or hovercraft is beside the point, if the distinction of being "hard" is what's important. And if you really had intelligent spirits as part of the natural world, figuring out ho...
[Question] [ In Christopher Paolini's [Inheritance Cycle](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inheritance_Cycle) ( *the Eragon books* ), magic works in a very specifically defined way. A magician can only use magic as far as his own bodily strength would be able to take him/her. (For this reason, it is impossible to raise s...
[Question] [ Let's assume that: * the entire nuclear arsenal available on earth is launched and detonated, completely obliterating civilization but leaving a few humans and animals in very remote areas alive. * this creates a 50 year long nuclear winter almost completely blocking sunlight and rendering photosynthesis...
[Question] [ Would the principles at work in the theoretical Alcubierre warp drive apply to a slower-than-light starship? I'm building a setting in which FTL communication and travel is impossible, (due to violations of causality, if nothing else) but would still like to have starships that can accelerate to relativi...
[Question] [ I want to know the pros and cons of hand held rail guns versus coil guns. They will be given to infantry who can easily lift the weapons. If need be they could have twice the strength of a normal human via cybernetic enhancements. What would be the various pros and cons, especially in rough terrain? [...
[Question] [ Realistically, how small can a nuclear reactor get (fission or fusion)? Truck sized? Table top? Mr. Fusion? AAA Battery? Are there other physical limits when we include human safety issues? Let's say the power range would be anything over 1kW. The higher the better. I should also specify I'm looking for...
[Question] [ I started playing one of the Metro games, and one of the common enemies is an armor plated Spider the size of a small dog that your character's flashlight causes its armor to boil as if the light is acid. Eventually I took a break from this, walked past the TV and the movie Pitch Black was starting. It i...
[Question] [ Could [werewolves](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werewolf) exist in a realistic world? All that is required for an accepted answer is the ability to change shape over night. Bonus points will be awarded if you can explain a bite spreading transformation and a full moon causing the transformation itself. C...
[Question] [ One of the facets of great fantasy worlds is the depth built into the environment. A well built world provides a complete setting in which stories can grow naturally and appear as a small sample of time in a far reaching universe that existed long before your characters and will exist long after. Lord of...
[Question] [ In the U.S., we vote on who are leaders are about every 4 years. My question is, what if you have a representative government where this is increased? Specifically, you can change your vote *anytime*. There is a secure website (as secure as offline elections today), such that people can select who they w...
[Question] [ All life we know of to date (presumably) formed on a rocky planet (more precisely: earth). Fiction has been written about life in more [exotic](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon's_Egg) [locations](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Meeting_with_Medusa). Though as far as I know, these lifeforms were always ...
[Question] [ *A long time ago near a planetary system far, far away, a great battle ensued between the Evil Commonwealth of the Fraternal Order of Mind Your Own Darn Business and the rebellious Expressors of the Eternal Finger. Missiles were launched in the deepest recesses of space. Energy was exchanged. Debris litt...
[Question] [ In my world I would like to create a pit on the Moon filled with air. * How deep would the pit need to be to get 1 ATM of pressure * Could the pit maintain the air or would it be lost to space? * If it would be lost, how long would it take? * could a cap be enough to prevent any loss? * Is the needed de...
[Question] [ Ludicrous Leg Man has never skipped a leg day, as a result of which he has infinitely strong and fast legs and all attendant secondary superpowers. Don't ask why, just roll with it. While performing leg related actions such as running, jumping and kicking his body shrugs off all forms of damage, so he do...
[Question] [ > > Running from her people. It was never unexpected, but Alynn always hurt about it. > > > She ran from the jeers, the shouts, the calls of "freak" and "witch". She ran away from yet another life she almost had. > > > More importantly, she ran from the rocks and bullets aimed at her. Stopping them ...
[Question] [ For a species I am working on, there is a specific genetic trait that I want to introduce into the population. The exact nature of either is not important for the purposes of this question, but the trait is of such a nature that it is visible in the individual's phenotype to others of the species *and* i...
[Question] [ The starship '[Exciting Undertaking](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/63587/why-are-there-no-toilets-on-the-starship-exciting-undertaking)' has set off on a brand new five and a bit year expedition to explore the galaxy. To make such a starship possible, an artificial gravity generator h...
[Question] [ I have a bipedal kaiju-style monster that walks upright on two legs and weighs 20,000 metric tons. Supposing, of course, that it can carry its own weight, its muscles can support the stress, and the ground can support it, does anyone have any idea how to calculate how many seconds it might take for this ...
[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. **Ba...
[Question] [ Basically, spud guns use air pressure to shoot spuds. More air pressure, faster spud. How fast would a pineapple gun (ignore making it, say it just works) have to shoot the pineapple to be lethal? Assume the target is your average joe who normally wear T-shirt and Shorts and maybe a hat. Not armoured sol...
[Question] [ **This Query is part of the Worldbuilding [Resources Article](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/143606/a-list-of-worldbuilding-resources).** --- One problem facing worldbuilders is the wide range of possible, hypothetical governments: robot-overlord, zealous AI, mages, vampires, an so on....
[Question] [ *or, [Anatomically Correct](http://meta.worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/2797/601) Weebles* A group of [behaviorally modern](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_modernity) humans was cut off from the rest of the earth-like planet millennia ago. (Myths hold that the [separation](https://worldbuildin...
[Question] [ Water is different from air, and sound waves propagate through water in a different way than they do in air (caused in part by interactions with the bottom of the body of water). For a society living underwater, this could lead to some interesting innovations in music, and musical instruments. For exampl...
[Question] [ **The Premise** The Earth rotates on its own axis, which is tilted by about 23 degrees. The setting for my fantasy novel is an earth like planet without the axial tilt, all other factors remaining constant in terms of distance from the sun etc. Some of you may have read my previous question on climate an...
[Question] [ Our notion of recording and communicating time and date is based on very old concepts, many of them being built upon flawed assumptions (that the Sun should be at exact south at noon, that a year should have an integer number of days, etc.) and cultural heritage (7-day week, the arbitrary beginning of ye...
[Question] [ Designing a single isolated culture isn't too difficult. There appear to be [12 aspects](https://quizlet.com/18587230/12-aspects-of-culture-flash-cards/) of culture that need to be described or accounted for, which isn't too hard without a history. Some of these aspects are directly tied to environment w...
[Question] [ Polytheism was a common form of religion in ancient times. People believed that different gods lived and controlled various parts of nature (ie the sun, the moon, thunderstorms), and praying to these gods gave them a sense that they had control over their lives. In modern and scientifically advanced soci...
[Question] [ So, this story takes place in the UFS fascist state, in North America. The government is extremely strict on its citizens, and everything the fallen, antiquated United States Of America held dear was erased since the revolution of the 1930s. No freedom of speech or of the press, only one religion is perm...
[Question] [ Set in the near future after there is a breakthrough in A.I. research, these robots are able to engage in a conversation with us and even provide consultation in many different areas ranging from medical advice to choosing a soulmate. Despite the fact that all these robots are hardwired to avoid load cap...
[Question] [ Similar to how some sci-fi fashions excuses for going back to swords instead of lasers, I'm looking for something that fosters are more cable-bound society – disrupting wireless communication on the more personal, local scale. So no global comm blackout or anything in that magnitude, just *more* wired he...
[Question] [ In my world, humans are fighting intelligent apes who have captured some human weapons. The conflict will mostly take place in the woods, some of it in an urban city by the woods. The apes have a wide variety of weapons, including a couple tanks and several sniper rifles; they have had about 6 months to ...
[Question] [ Basically, I have this story I'm trying to write in which there are an advanced space-faring species of precursors (very original, I know), which have been scattered throughout the cosmos as their original homeworld and most of their species was destroyed. They are almost all aware of the existence of ot...
[Question] [ I'm trying to write a mermaid civilization, although I have one major roadblock when developing a criminal justice system. My mermaids are air breathers (like cetaceans) so I'm not sure how I would have a system of detainment without drowning them to death. How exactly could I get around this hurdle? ...
[Question] [ I'm currently working on a large pantheon of deities for a religion in my current world. I've decided I would like to have the deity of joy and mirth be evil, but I'm having a hard time determining a logical path to that state of being. **How can an evil deity reasonably be explained as the deity of joy ...