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[Question] [ Would it be possible for a planet-wide climate be set so that the temperature even at the poles would continually stay within a narrow range between 17 and 21 degrees Celsius? (This is approximately 62 to 69 degrees Fahrenheit.) In this scenario, the temperature would stay within this range even at the t...
[Question] [ I want to know about the plausibility and required parameters of the following scenario: Take an Earth-like planet, about the same size, composition and gravity. It has no plate tectonics to speak of. It’s a single shallow world-sea with a huge amount of small, low-elevation islands (whatever elevation t...
[Question] [ I'm looking for an answer concerning a steam powered airship. The steam is generated via coal burning. The ship is propelled by an X amount of steam engine propellers (think [Besler steam plane](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_aircraft)). The craft would have to have a coal reserve and an X amount of...
[Question] [ Context if you're interested > > In the very near future, a planet teeming with alien life is discovered several light years away from our Solar System - and with a few precautions, it may be habitable to human life. Individual species have not been identified, but there are clear signs of bioc...
[Question] [ In a barren desert, 5 cities called the desert pearls are placed like pearls on a string. Travel between the cities are done with huge pack animals who looks like a breed between elephant (mammoth) and rhino with thick brown fur (maybe like wow clefthoof?), able to walk without water for weeks. The size...
[Question] [ Closed. This question needs to be more [focused](/help/closed-questions). It is not currently accepting answers. --- Want to improve this question? Update the question so it focuses on one problem only by [editing this post](/posts/890/edit). Closed 6 years ago. [Improve this question](/posts...
[Question] [ I want to understand how weaponry and armor might be made from the chitin of giant insects, and how well it might work. # Background In a fantasy world I'm working on, a significant population lives entirely underground. Naturally, a great deal of the plant life is parasitic (non-chlorophyll-based), and ...
[Question] [ Giant spider webs in fiction always seem very thin compared to the scale of the spider itself. (See: Hobbit 2) I would expect giant spider webs to be like cables, but that might not be the case. ![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/OnF8z.jpg) My question is: **Does the thickness and ...
[Question] [ Imagine a society where everyone controls a variation of one of the four elements: earth, fire, water, and air. What I mean by variation is some might control metal, but not rocks. Others control ice, but not water. What I mean by control is that they have full ability to move and manipulate it. This is ...
[Question] [ So we have both flying cars and jetpacks. Presuming they each act like their counterparts (cars go as fast as cars, but in three dimensions; jetpacks are like cyclists), and that they are becoming just as ubiquitous as their counterparts: what should an Urban Planner consider in city-design? This i...
[Question] [ I have a knight fighting a dragon with an electric breath weapon, I'm wondering what would actually happen when the knight was struck by the weapon, assuming it has the power of a 'regular' lightning bolt. How would somebody wearing full plate armour (with appropriate leather padding) be affected by a li...
[Question] [ I am working on a project (The Longest Day), and I'm sure some people here have the necessary knowledge to give me some more usefull info. # OK, here it is: Lets say that Earth's spinning speed diminishes to 10% of its current speed, causing days to last for 240 hours rather than 24 hours (the length of ...
[Question] [ The species doesn't originate from the solar system, nor do they occupy a single planet or even have any colonies on the planets. They travel around in space ships throughout the solar system Do they just choose an arbitrary planet and use the rotation and orbit of that planet to count the days/years? Do...
[Question] [ A [recurring problem](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/316/can-you-simply-scale-up-animals?rq=1) in trying to create large creatures is the [square-cube law](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square%E2%80%93cube_law#Biomechanics) as it applies to upscaling familiar animals, particularly thos...
[Question] [ My living friends. I'm a Lich, a wizard that became a undead and obtained immortality, I am looking to build a necropolis for me to be its king, I chose a distant city to turn it's inabitants into various types of undead, like zombies, ghost, vampires, skeletons, dullahans and others, but although I am u...
[Question] [ So in (a lot of) sci-fi we have magic gravity that gives up and down and layer-cake decks, and nice and easy set design for the TV studios. I’m actually pretty much okay with this, but what rubs me the wrong way is the fact that if we can manipulate gravity like this, why don’t we have relativistic rail-...
[Question] [ Picture a band of explorers deep underground in huge dwarven underground complex they have been exploring for what to most of them feels like an eternity. They come to hub like chamber with a dozen or so openings to tunnels apparently identical to the one they came from. The elf groans: "We will *never...
[Question] [ [Ragnarök](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragnar%C3%B6k) is the Norse rendition of [the apocalypse](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/2625/could-a-disaster-kill-all-human-life-on-earth-but-leave-astronauts-in-low-orbi). A major event during this apocalypse is Fernir devouring the sun. If we...
[Question] [ Many fantasy worlds (for instance Tamriel from The Elder Scrolls) and also ancient civilizations have or had polytheistic cults to the point where the same holy place would be shared among different, even competitive, deities. Historically, birth of monotheistic cults would try to impose the new belief...
[Question] [ Lest anyone think I am making fun of men with beards, I should point out that I am a man with a beard. A space-exploration team land on a new planet. They are surprised to discover that the local population appears to consist entirely of men with beards, buried up to their necks in sand. As they descend ...
[Question] [ There are lots of examples in fiction of lizard people, bird people or beast people, but I'd like to expand my phylogenetic horizons in conceptualizing my world. To that end, I have conceptualized a race of large, sentient [flatworm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatworm) people. I am not an artist so I...
[Question] [ I am currently designing a megastructure which is supposed to provide living- and workplaces for about 100.000 people. It is supposed to be designed in a way that it provides everything the inhabitants need for everyday life so they rarely if ever need to leave it. While it is not completely self-contain...
[Question] [ Recently, I was working on the various astronomies and astrologies of my fantasy world, when I had an interesting thought: “What if there was a planet that was so faint, people would be arguing if it existed?”. So far, I’ve just been befuddled. I’m certain if I dedicated myself, I’d figure it out for mys...
[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. Many...
[Question] [ I am currently creating a world from scratch, and while I have a map, I still need to figure out distribution of natural resources. For resources like fossil fuels, while many do appear in deserts, I know that that isn't a prerequisites because fossil fuels also show up in places like Pennsylvania and Al...
[Question] [ My low-fantasy setting features the deadly plant known as the wormberry. It produces small berries of a bright-but-overall-undecided color, all of which contain a small, edible seed. They have two distinct features: 1. The wormberry is incomparably sweet when ripe. It follows the standard operating proce...
[Question] [ In my story Orcs, humans, and a bunch of other [fantasy races](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/168595/why-would-humans-be-the-dominant-species) live along side each other and i'm curious as to what evolutionary pressures would to a group of [divergent hominids](https://worldbuilding.sta...
[Question] [ Previous parts here: [Creating a scientifically semi-valid super-soldier, part 1: Skeleton](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/106292/28789) [Creating a scientifically semi-valid super-soldier, part 2: nervous system](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/107365/28789) [Creating a scientif...
[Question] [ Basing off my [previous question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/9350/how-would-eating-killing-rearing-an-animal-be-like-when-an-animal-person-of-tha), in what way should the architecture be like in order to accommodate the many sizes of people and animal-people, assuming that the smal...
[Question] [ Assuming that you had: * some sort of amazing power plant on the moon that can create an unlimited amount of power * a similarly amazing solar panel on earth that can receive an unlimited amount of power * and an even more amazing laser on the moon that could accurately send the power to the solar panel ...
[Question] [ A group of settlers from a mid-renaissance era have setup an initial settlement along a coastline. Materials for shelter exist and fishing serves as the initial food source. What are the primary concerns from the environment that have to be addressed for the colony to remain stable? [Answer] The first...
[Question] [ In a post-apoc world there are societies of people that live their entire lives in huge underground bunkers. They live there, as did their parents, as did their parents, and so forth. Their only reference to time are the time-keeping devices they use that are based on pre-apoc time-keeping devices. There...
[Question] [ What qualities about a land-dwelling creature are absolutely necessary to maintain an effective herd of that creature for food and/or resources? Assume this is an earth-like environment. [Answer] * The animal must be docile and handlable enough that necessary veternary work, breeding, and transport ar...
[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. Ever...
[Question] [ Was wondering if anyone with physics knowledge could tell me something about desert worlds. If the surface of a planet was mostly a fine sandy material (e.g. Sand) then could tidal forces cause the whole desert to flow like a slower, dustier ocean? The idea came when watching the huge waves on a planet i...
[Question] [ This always has been a point of trouble for me as a World Designer. How would a fantasy city be well-protected against airborne creatures? In all the examples we have on our own world (Earth) being able to fly would simply bypass all common and even uncommon defences. Cities, villages, fortresses and Cas...
[Question] [ My source of inspiration and imagination... StarGate Atlantis Tv-Series: Wraith hive-ships were mainly biological. Genesis Rising Pc-game: The game itself, storyline, human technology, etc based around biological ships. So, the question is would it be possible? 1. The general concept? 2. Hull and structu...
[Question] [ In one world I've developed, the local surface gravity is slightly more than three times the surface gravity on Earth. Humans settled this world and were doing quite well through highly advanced technology. A series of disasters removed that technology and even the knowledge of that technology. More than...
[Question] [ This Query is part of the Worldbuilding [Resources Article](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/143606/a-list-of-worldbuilding-resources). --- [Creating a realistic world map - Erosion](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/1020/creating-a-realistic-world-map-erosion?lq=1) c...
[Question] [ I love developing complex languages for stories and worlds, I'm not much of a language expert though and on top of this I struggle to store all the necessary information to help me work with the language. It's difficult to find words that you've previously defined or to create language structure without ...
[Question] [ So most zombie apocalypse stories involve wiping out 99.9% of the human race and having a small minority survive to try and keep living. But, let's say I want society as we know it to collapse, but I still want a substantial number of people around to keep some of modern life going. However, if there are...
[Question] [ I'm working on a planetary colonization story where a crew of 36 women are sent to populate an earth-like planet. The crew takes with them the tools needed to survive the first years. Enough to build the first houses and to plant the first fields, and a huge sperm bank, capable of storing thousands of sp...
[Question] [ One answer to the question of "Why don't we see any aliens?" prompted me to consider: > > The computer was a comparatively simple design, what the natives would call “single core” Von Neumann architecture machine. But it made up for its simplicity in raw speed. More than that; its tremendous processi...
[Question] [ According to [this answer](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/a/3083/349) to what the moon is made of, the moon's crust is, among other things, 43% oxygen. Assuming we were to go back to the moon within the next couple of years with the goal of establishing a long-term presence (read: base/colony), ...
[Question] [ Let's imagine we have an algorithm that produce an elevation-map for a sphere. I wonder if the ratio between the planet radius and the delta between the highest and lowest altitude is a constant or can be guessed depending a few factors (main chemical components of the planet, atmosphere thickness, ...)....
[Question] [ About 5 billion years from now, the Sun will begin to swell into a red giant. This will cause some problems, because [life on a planet orbiting a red giant is hard](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/a/113773/627). Even if Earth isn't engulfed by the expanding Sun, it's going to be scorched. We're...
[Question] [ It is understood that a way to prevent causality violation and time-travel while still having faster-than-light travel is to introduce a specific reference frame. This is explained in detail in [this answer](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/a/47038/885), in [Hinson’s Relativity and FTL Travel §9...
[Question] [ Yes, this is about Dr. Evil's dream: Sharks with frickin' lasers. Except that the lasers would not be artificially attached, but be part of the animal itself (bio-lasing instead of simply bioluminescence). In short: Would it be possible for an animal (shark or otherwise) to grow a laser at its head and p...
[Question] [ Gunpowder, also known as black powder, is some nasty stuff. It's extremely corrosive, it produces large amounts of obstructive grit and fouling, and using it creates a cloud of obscuring smoke. So when [Poudre B](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poudre_B) was invented in 1884, this was a big deal- suddenly ...
[Question] [ I'd really like to write a story taking place on an alien world that involves a totally new kingdom of life, and I'd like it to be at least somewhat realistic. The idea I have right now is a whole bunch of organisms which exist near the surface of oceans, floating or grounded, which use some kind of root...
[Question] [ Clarified and narrowed down as requested! The following guidelines have already been established for the world. These are presented so you get an idea of the people we are dealing with: 1. The members of this society are humans who evolved from social sapian creatures, just like us. 2. Total h...
[Question] [ The people in my setting (urban fantasy, starting in 1998 America and moving forward) have a bit of an engineering dilemma they need to work out regarding potionmaking. The magical substances they brew with have a notorious tendency to degrade within an hour after collection unless properly stored. They ...
[Question] [ Some time ago, I imagined a world with one peculiar disease. People affected by it suddenly "fall" towards the sky, never to be seen again. What could be the scientific cause of such a disease? Some of its characteristics are: * it can affect living beings as well as objects and the environment itself: f...
[Question] [ Ok so here's the scenario. I've got a hero fighting a stompy robot that is covered in armour that stops the hero's electricity based attacks. However it still needs to see and thus has a camera that is safely behind bulletproof glass that connects to its main computer. If the hero could break through thi...
[Question] [ I'm writing a heist story set in the near future. The goal of my main protagonists is to actually steal the Moon. The budget of their escapade is not a variable; they will get this done however possible. I need to know: How feasible would it be to actually pull off a heist such as this? [Answer] ## Pl...
[Question] [ In my world, the planet (which is not Earth, but is suitably Earth-like) has been besieged by deadly monsters for about 1000 years. Their initial attack lead to an apocalyptic scenario which took humanity hundreds of years to fully recover from. Since then, humanity has banded into one large empire/feder...
[Question] [ Determining genetic fatherhood is very important in my worldbuilding experiment for lots of reasons, one being succession, but regardless it's the genetic component that's important But it's possible that people don't know who the father is of their child as well. Note that this is *not a medieval Europe...
[Question] [ For my story there exists a fictitious element with special properties. In its pure form is most closely resembles metal (for its physical properties) This material is quite abundant in salt and oxide forms, but extremely rare in its pure form. There are real life examples of metals hard to get in pure f...
[Question] [ I need a reason for two antagonistic humanoid lifeforms living on the same planet to be completely incapable of direct physical contact. I don't mean they have a strong aversion to it, I mean they literally should be unable to on a fundamental, physical level. [Answer] **This already basically exists...
[Question] [ > > Everyone in my community is collapsing to the ground and dying painfully. My husband, he is one of the few remaining men to bury the dead and I worry that soon I'll be left alone. > > > How do I ensure that our son and daughter survive? > > > We don't know where to go and if this black death is ...
[Question] [ In my world, humans live on an island. The island is not real big, there is a volcano, a river around which is a marsh.The forest on the island is sacred for them so they cannot enter it and cannot harvest any trees. They use mud for construction but I can't figure out what would they use as fuel I was t...
[Question] [ PROJEKT ' *IRON SONG* ' In the Empire of Tyvertsia, there are many strange and often hostile beasts—bears, mountain lions, sirin, bauk and the like—living among the wildlife of the thick Western forests, where the soft decidious trees and rolling hillocks give way to tall, noble, hardy conife...
[Question] [ Long story short: my story has magical humanoids (known as "immortals" due to their immunity to old age and disease) existing in secret on mostly-modern-day Earth as a 1-in-1000-humans minority. One of these species is vampires, and they are arguably the dominant immortal species on earth. One of the rea...
[Question] [ In a timeline where the USSR didn't collapse and the Cold War escalated into a full-blown nuclear conflict sometime around the year 2100, the world is left utterly devastated. Both the Soviet Union (and its satellites) and the NATO nations are wiped off the face of the earth, leaving only pockets of surv...
[Question] [ There's three mighty countries in this part of the world. In each country, one finds magicians. They are very rare: about one in ten thousand babies is born with magic, and it doesn't matter whether their parents were kings, priests or peasants. If two magicians marry, their kids have a slightly higher o...
[Question] [ I don’t need a super detailed answer here, so this is definitely going to be pretty opinion-based. For context, let’s say you have a world where WW2 was ended by an all-American superhero punching Hitler in the jaw (not literally but you get my point) as opposed to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Na...
[Question] [ Our protagonist civilization is based on a large island in the middle of the pacific(think half the size of Australia), has a population of 100 million, has abundant resources and is totally self-sufficient, and has only 1 million personnel, but has the equivalent military technology of today's USA. They...
[Question] [ So, in the 24th century, advanced nanofactories are developed capable of producing any conceivable product; clothing, electronics, even nanotech, provided it is of inorganic nature. However, it is important in this project that organic products, (namely food) cannot be produced in a nanofactory. Why woul...
[Question] [ Set in the 12th century C.E. a trend seems to spread like wildfire across the kingdom: many young mages are practicing sealing a slain magical creature into all kinds of melee weapons, most commonly a broom, as a bronze sword is considered a luxury. The seal will bind the magical essence of the slain cr...
[Question] [ Human evolution has a reasonably complete fossil record pointing to the fact that we and apes evolved from a common ancestor within the last 10 million years or so. But I want a world where it could be reasonably assumed that humans were simply transplanted here, perhaps created or moved here by some ali...
[Question] [ Problem that anyone who tries to describe an image from centuries ahead always faces: at what point will your present still exist there in the future? I can think about how fashion and art are cyclical and how a reduction in population will also cause a reduction in artistic innovation, in addition to re...
[Question] [ > > Toward the end of the war between Atlantis and Mu, such magicks were cast that their interaction rent asunder the very length and breadth and height of the world and through that tear entered The Destroyer from a place outside reality. > > > It was not as most thought, that the conflict of magicks...
[Question] [ I know I’m flirting with “Primarily Opinion Based” here, but I’m hoping there’s some established knowledge out there in the community that I might be completely oblivious to. If you look at pretty much any science fiction setting, the design for any kind of ranged weapon is based on a modern gunpowder f...
[Question] [ There are 2 ships in space about 1 [AU](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_unit)1 apart. Ship A fires a deathbeam on Ship B. The deathbeam travels at speed of light with no acceleration (or deceleration) at all and is guaranteed to hit its target in about 8.3 mins if Ship B does not take ...
[Question] [ Inspired by [Can we use science to explain a creature that feeds on emotion?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/51798/can-we-use-science-to-explain-a-creature-that-feeds-on-emotion) I was wondering if we can somehow use science to explain how a creature that devours dreams and nightmares...
[Question] [ Since the dragon lives in a forest, he limits the use of his acidic breath weapon on home ground to hit 'n run, supply destruction, and a way to deter his enemies and give him a chance to escape. There is also the potential of a severe heartburn if he overused it. Consequently, dragons should have a seco...
[Question] [ Introduction: In certain genres (cultivation), people regularly undergo judgements as a way of getting stronger. Once they reach a certain break point, they are struck by lightning, and if they survive, they progress, or else they are seriously wounded and stalled, or killed. There are several break ...
[Question] [ I’ve created a fairly fleshed out, detailed FTL concept. Basically, you have a circular starship, with a ring of tungsten encircling that, held in place by an antigravity ring beneath it. The rim of the starship consists of a plasma window - basically superheated plasma held in place by a magnetic field....
[Question] [ In my world, the characters have to travel to a new planet and start all over again. Say they make the journey in a space ship transporting a bunch of human DNA samples. If this ship crashed on the new planet, everyone died, and the DNA "leaked" onto the surface, could anything come of it? [Answer] ##...
[Question] [ I'm creating a unique alien species which sees the world differently from us or the insects. Our binocular vision helps us to gauge distance and depth while the array of light sensitive compound eyes rock a little which is sufficient for the critter to register depth. Both rely heavily on parallax, but I...
[Question] [ So, we are on a fictional planet where the most powerful human faction (the Union) relies heavily on necrotechny (high-tech necromancy) for historical reasons. Necrotechny brings prosperity and military power to the Union as detailed in the examples below. As the Union progressively became a democratic f...
[Question] [ A medieval kingdom needs to capture deer, both male and female, alive and uninjured. How would they go about doing this? [Answer] By using deer traps, like they did in medieval Europe: > > A Deer hay wind, Deer fold or Elrick is an artificial, natural or modified natural feature used in the culling, ...
[Question] [ In short, after shenanigans revolving around travel around dimensions a modern army( A Marine Expeditionary Force if you want to be precise) end up invading a world that is still in the 19th century. The modern army came with full supplies and gear, they also are carrying with them three small-range nucl...
[Question] [ How could a really intelligent species be kept from developing? For clarification, this species is the only creature of intelligent thought on the planet and they have a population of about 50 million across the planet about the size of the moon. However, they can't develop to the level that Britain reac...
[Question] [ I've recently been imagining a world of magic with heavy influence from chinese wuxia and xianxia. In such worlds, there's often various fire and ice magic, among other different types. Now, fire magic is easy as there's seemingly no limit to the amount of heat/energy a certain substance can contain. Ice...
[Question] [ Let's say that you have a society where imprisonment was either impossible (no room, or maybe if one person was locked away, the entire society would collapse because everyone had a designated role which could not be changed, and there are no roles for "prisoners" or "guards"), ineffectual (there was no ...
[Question] [ A less common, but still cool (imo) feature of science fiction is hover tanks. Be they using antigrav, quad-copter style rotor blades or just the inflatable skirt of modern hovercraft. However, they suffer a lot of the same issues as combat mecha, in that they rely on very fragile and complex tech, witho...
[Question] [ Right now the trend in the western world is declining or stagnant birthrates, but in my sci-fi universe I wanted to have a period of rapid population growth (around the 2050s). What factors could cause another baby boom preferably non-dystopian? Note: * Most of the factors I've seen just don't apply any...
[Question] [ I know this a very unrealistic question but imagine in a alternate world where scientists and engineers don't have the resources or the requirements to make nuclear weapons, what type of weaponry could replace it? Do humans stick to conventional wars or do people just make more powerful bombs but it's do...
[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/122272/edit). Closed 5 years ago. [Improve this question...
[Question] [ Consider a magical medieval world, where the magic is very weak (small fireballs, or some basic healing spells) in which other magical races exists as well. However, a lone European dragon (description given below) can easily wipe out everything. Is there any way to make dragons less powerful, but still ...
[Question] [ I want to create a Mad-Max-esque post apocalyptic setting. Unfortunately after a bit of looking into this, there is one massive issue with the idea of lots of maniacs tearing across the barren landscape of a post WW3 world in their armoured cars and trucks: Fuel. The fuel of all of these cars and trucks ...
[Question] [ Ok, [Space Elevators](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator) have fallen out of the limelight, sorry for them, but the concept is intriguing just the same, so here it goes. One of the worst problem space elevators face is the fact that they are not elevators at all; they are structures, instead, t...
[Question] [ I initially wanted to create a culture that used tides to tell the seasons, I'm sure I still can, but a question on here (I can no longer find it) made me wonder if I could set up a world where one of the moons was much brighter on a few days of the year (once, twice, three times etc, but not 'monthly' o...
[Question] [ ## Premise This is meant to be a dark corollary of the cliche "demographics are destiny." The premise is a hegemonic-like state with persistent drawdowns in fiscal income. Meanwhile unfunded liabilities, to a large extent includes social security, are growing too fast for this state. They've already invo...
[Question] [ So I've read up (NASA has good stuff) that nuclear weapons detonated in space are primarily a radiation hazard. Thermal and concussive effects are negligible, other than I suppose hot fragmentation from the missile/warhead itself if close enough. Now the radiation can be significant, according to NASA, e...
[Question] [ Humans, in most fantasy stories including in my own, are the dominant species. Why is that? Firstly, I guess I should give every race in my story strengths and weaknesses. [Humans](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human) (same as us) have the best endurance [Orcs](https://worldbuilding.stackexchang...
[Question] [ Evolution is a great system for incremental refinements, but it's not very good at drastic changes, and can leave behind a lot of inconvenient vestigial elements. It's also rubbish at dealing with changes on the short scale (such as hairless apes going and building an agricultural society). But let's sa...
[Question] [ Context : * the planet is earth like * the ancestor of pretty much any living animals is 12 eyed creature. * because of the evolution, their eyed are placed and able to move in such a way that all of the animals can see all of direction at the same time, including their backs. * this feature exists in al...
[Question] [ In my World, a perfect storm of catastrophic size strikes earth and black-death levels of mortality ensue, cutting short the Great Space Race. The only problem is that there are over 10,000 people stuck on Mars, but with mortality in the billions, Earth nations (or whatever is left of them) can hardly co...

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