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In countless zombies books, from World War Z to The Walking Dead, prisons are depicted as being the ultimate refuges for surviving the zombie apocalypse. The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks dedicates 6 pages up it, whereas other refuges get only 1-2 pages.
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I have a roughly Earth-like planet in a solar system some distance from ours. The atmosphere of this planet is largely similar to that of Earth, but particularly, has a somewhat higher oxygen content; currently, I'm thinking about 26-28% oxygen (O2(g)) and 65-68% nitrogen (N2(g)), compared to Earth's 21%... |
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The Mind-Wolf is one of the [more dangerous](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/11252/how-to-catch-a-dream-thief) foes in my world. It can read minds, it can plant thoughts in the unwary, slowly warping senses until pushing the victim into the equivalent of a full blown psychotic episode, ... |
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This question is almost exactly like [Could plants develop intelligence](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/5097/could-plants-develop-intelligence), but now I wonder (how) could plant life develop **sentience**, to the point where it becomes as intelligent as humans? Is a brain necessary f... |
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In popular science fiction, we see habitable Earth-like planets with visible, Saturn-like rings.
In reality, such rings exist only on gas giants, a category where we can find Saturn.
Is it really possible for a planet similar in gravity to Earth to have the kind of gravity needed to create these rings? I... |
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So you are rebel, your name is Norn, and you are hidden away in a lovely forest swarming with all kinds of little critters, in the middle kingdom where the king and his formidable military are hunting you and would like nothing more than to decapitate you and every one of your rebel buddies...the king is... |
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I have a fictional character in 1870 who is a marksman of superhuman ability; basically, he doesn't need a sniper rifle with a telescopic sight, he *is* a sniper with a telescopic sight, and can get the maximum physically possible accuracy from any weapon.
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What are the biggest and the smallest possible sizes for a celestial body such that a human (in a not-too-advanced spacesuit if needed) could walk on like on Earth?
More precisely, the celestial body should have the following requirements:
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What would be the psychological effect on the inhabitants of a generational starship, if they discovered that powerful pirates were on course to intercept them 20 generations hence (~600 years), and there was no way to outmaneuver them?
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I am creating a Medieval empire. It is following the [feudal system](http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feudalism) and I want to avoid the extreme political breakup that happened to Europe in the Middle Ages. How would I limit the power of feudal lords to retain an effective Monarchy?
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Could you build a ring around the earth, so that it would just sit in the sky? I'm not talking a geostationary orbit of rubble like the rings around Saturn, but a solid structure just high enough to clear Mt Everest. As gravity would be acting equally on it from all sides it would just hover there wouldn... |
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Airships are cool, and I would love to use them and see them used outside of steampunk a lot more. One key aspect of Airships is that they seem to have the square cube law reversed. For other things in the world they'll be able to carry less weight the bigger they are while Airships will have more gas vo... |
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In a setting where portals can be opened between one location and another,
Suppose you open a portal of area one square meter, with one end at the surface and the other end at the bottom of an ocean, three kilometers down, where the pressure is three hundred bar. Obviously a jet of water will come throug... |
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There once existed a bird of massive size, aptly named [the Elephant bird](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_bird).
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This began life as a much broader question on the site but I'm attempting to parcel it out as smaller topics to make it more digestible:
I am trying to find ways, as the title suggests, to combine modern low-tech ideas with the life of medieval serfs, peasants, commoners, etc. **Specifically, modern inno... |
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A [Golem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golem) is a creature of Jewish lore, they are living creature created by inanimate objects like clay, stone, hay or wood. They obey their master and will follow their orders. Creating a true golem is impossible both through man made creation and evolution. The ques... |
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I've always liked the idea of [scythes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scythe). Their connotation of death and reaping is always satisfying. But they're also a polearm, and that could make for some interesting martial feats. But nearly every discussion I see claims they would be useless as a weapon, due t... |
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I'm trying to create demons that aren't just raging murderers, as much as they're enslaved to their disposition they're not completely conquered by it, with a sense of humanity and reason crawling under their skin.
I also want several polar groups representing different fears like rejection, lack of con... |
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Suppose wizards are are very common, like 1 in 3 people. Magic ability is inherent, but basically useless without special (fairly expensive) training. Obviously the military would not ignore them. I am picturing a military similar in structure to the modern US or ancient Rome, in a medieval setting. My q... |
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Say you have a planet and the planet has a moon: could the moon have visible satellites as well? I don't mean a gas giant planet, I mean something habitable by humanoids or humans.
Will the moon's satellite get pulled into orbiting the planet?
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We are in a not too distant future. The current trends of computerizing and automating more and more decisions, including military decisions, of more and more surveillance (both state and private companies), networking of more and more systems, and big data have ultimately lead to the computer systems ga... |
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Hear my Evil Overlord Plan:
1. Start personality cult and proclaim self as prophet of God or a divine being
2. Gather about 3000 followers of my religion (big enough to sustain population)
3. Develop ultra deadly virus which spreads really fast
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I want to build a world where society is composed of a few highly advanced individuals. Perhaps ruled by a council of elders as we frequently see, utopic society and all the usual tropes apply:
1. The members of this society are immortals
2. No one was murdered in the last 100000.... years
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Take, if you will, a sci-fi setting in which power is cheap and handheld energy weapons (blasters, lasers, plasma rifles, that sorta thing) are common. In this setting is an isolated community basically dedicated to stealth and assassination (think "ninjas in space").
Ostensibly, my space-ninjas favor tr... |
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We have an outbreak of a zombie-like disease in major metropolitan areas. The disease itself has a slow incubation period, and after a time it becomes clear that it is spreading faster than they can handle, and it is time to try and close off the infected cities.
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So, since my dragons have a lot of limitations that are needed for flight, I thought it was to make them some strengths. Two that still remain are their intelligence and long life, which can result in them being extremely well-trained and with a lot of friends, but these advantages are worthless in the h... |
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A popular trope with some basis in history is the "travelling merchant", who visits remote villages carrying merchandise both common and rare, and many stories from strange lands.
I've got a scenario in my mind, which is the expanded, aquatic equivalent of this. You have a family who operates their own t... |
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I would like to have giant sand worms similar to the ones in the 'Dune' novel. What should the planet be like so that they are realistic? Giant sand worms are roughly 100m long and 5 meters in diameter. They can burrow/ dig through sand similar to earth worms, they don't need to create permanent tunnels,... |
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I am working on a setting in which there are a very limited number of human females remaining, and the intent is to repopulate as quickly as possible. Given a modern level of medical technology, what is the maximum number of viable eggs that could be produced by one woman assuming she is somewhere around... |
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In my story, flying creatures rule the sky. These creatures are usually tiny like an eagle or a vulture compared to huge (cumulus/cumulonimbus) clouds and these creatures always hunt and hide as groups.
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Imagine I travel back in time ~500 years, leave a modern ship/boat log book in a cave and the log book was discovered today. Since the book was discovered after it was possible to buy it off the shelf it could easily be a hoax. For example, a log book that was first produced in 2015 traveled back in time... |
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[Lichen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichen) are a symbiotic organism that involves algae or cyanobacteria living inside a fungus. The algae produce energy through photosynthesis, while the fungus protect the algae from the environment and provide access to water and nutrients. In many ways, this relat... |
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I've been reading the book Nomad, and in it
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In [Weapons for a civilisation-destroying giant robot](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/36742/75) I asked about what weapons might be placed on a sixty-billion-ton fusion-powered snakebot 9.27 km long and 1.19 km in diameter, armoured with 224 metres of Boron-Carbide surfaced Tungsten-Depleted U... |
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Humans sleep more then nearly any other creature (true sleep, not low-activity like cats and sloths), and are some of the only true sapient species on earth. Many other intelligent, or nearly sapient, species similarly have much higher degrees of sleep. Clearly we find sleep to be useful.
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I would like to have Earth slowly move away from the sun, taking somewhere between several months and a couple of years to reach the point where human life on the surface is no longer possible. (The story revolves around efforts to get protected in time and the resulting conflicts. So yes, we have some l... |
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I want to do something set in the first weeks of a zombie apocalypse. I am using a viral, slow, infinite energy, 24 hours or so transformation time, zombie model. So I want to know, if a zombie were created, or even 100, could a zombie apocalypse theoretically happen? Wouldn't the military work its way t... |
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As most of us know, accelerating to relativistic speeds requires truly astronomical amounts of energy. I have internalized that a ship carrying enough energy/fuel to accelerate to near-lightspeed by its nature also carries enough energy to destroy a planet several times over, even ign... |
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In response to [a question about an asteroid filled with degenerate matter](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/117195/627), [Ender Look suggested](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/a/117210/627) that using matter from a black dwarf would be better than using matter from a white dwarf since b... |
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In the movie *Oblivion*, the Moon has been destroyed by invading aliens. Several shots of the moon show what is left:
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**Can humans live on an Earth-like planet where the only difference is that the surface is ~50% water, instead of the ~75% of now?**
That is, paleolithic humans...
And the new land area hosts the same ratio of biomes that currently exist on Earth, or whatever it needs to produce a human-livable climate.
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So, I'd love to have werewolves in the world I'm building, but as it's a sci-fi setting I don't really want them to be magical. I can stomach *some* pseudoscience, but I want the process to be as realistic as possible. To this end, I've removed the influence of the moon (it's just a cyclic transformation... |
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I was wondering if it would make sense to hollow out an asteroid to use for a [generation ship](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_ship)? Also, might it be a good idea to use hollow asteroids for any kind of long distance space ship? I'm thinking you can mount engines on the outside, you have some g... |
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Dragons are often thought to have impenetrable scales. If dragons were to shed them it would obviously make them far more vulnerable for a period of time. This on the other hand would make them easier to be hunted.
So the question is pretty straightforward. Would a dragon, based on modern science, shed t... |
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Imagine a meta-human, one engineered to be immortal. A combination of cybernetic enhancements, genetic engineering, and other scientific modifications have made it so this human *will not* die from aging, and is *very* hard to kill. They are designed to be a magnificent soldier, and if they start sufferi... |
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Names are important, in fact one could argue that they are as important as the people behind them. They help add feeling to the characters and likely come from a specific cultural or subcultural group. Because of this, names need to fit in with your culture or you will have one big mess, after all, would... |
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Related to my previous question : [How to live in an underground city?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/23882/how-to-live-in-an-underground-city)
The refugees managed to live in their underground city with the few resources they can find. They are prepared to fight if necessary. But the... |
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I have a few factions in mind from various nations/cities in my world and even a couple that span the continent. I am having trouble with depth. The groups I have feel shallow and overly simplified.
I am looking for a process to facilitate creating groups/organizations that are sufficiently complex and p... |
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When designing a world it is convenient to decide how places will be named: Elements like the continents and the oceans.
However, it is likely that the different cultures of the world will not agree on a common name for these places. Some might not even know there is an ocean or maybe they just don't ca... |
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I got many little trading posts all over my worlds and orbiting around them. Everyone can trade in there, nice guys as well as scum of all kind. The trading posts are rich places.
**How could a system be established that would make the posts safer against the scum traders and bandits/pirates? Or why woul... |
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[Prototaxites](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototaxites).
Giant, finger-shaped mushrooms.
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If two species with no previous knowledge of one another, and no knowledge of each other's environments (say they're on the other side of a wormhole through which they can shoot a radio signal), what system of measurement would they use to communicate?
Someone once suggested to me that the period length ... |
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Real x-ray vision, the ability to (at least) detect X-rays as a 'visible' light (or any other detection system) seems it would be very problematic. X-Rays are a high energy form of electromagnetic radiation and are very damaging to living tissue (at least on Earth).
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Would it be possible for an earth-like planet to have a lake made of liquid gallium?
I assume that the lake would probably have to be near the equator to avoid having it freeze over frequently. Evaporation wouldn't be a problem due to gallium's high boiling point.
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There is this **forest** in my world with the vegetation **feeding off the humidity of the air**. Because the plants keep draining humidity, the air becomes **dry** -- near 0% of humidity. Precipitation happens, and rivers flow throughout the forest, therefore it is not *that* hard to find water to survi... |
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In the mid 13th century, France was without a doubt the richest land of the West. Inside its modern borders there were perhaps 18 million people, and maybe more, at that time perhaps 1/5 of all the people in Europe. By contrast, all of the lands of the Rus, including modern Belarus and Ukra... |
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A common theme in older novels and some more modern publications is that of body parts (potentially from multiple species) being 'swapped' on to new bodies and recombined in (usually grotesque) ways by mad scientists (I prefer the term misunderstood, personally, but that's just me).
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Or does the timeline just not allow that given the respective lengths of time it took for Earth to evolve complex life vs the time it took for Mars to lose its atmosphere? Could an alien civilization have flourished on Mars long ago before being wiped out or is there just no chance of that being possible... |
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I have had some time to ponder [my previous question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/6340/the-challenge-of-controlling-a-powerful-ai), and here's what I came up with.
You take your freshly baked AI (or your destructively uploaded human), **and put it in a box$^1$**. As far as it can t... |
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I have an idea for an encounter in my world that goes like this...
*A weary group of adventurers are trekking through a great ancient forest. This forest is avoided by most due to strange tales of the forest attacking travelers.*
*Undeterred, the stalwart group of heroes delves into the foreboding wilder... |
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Plastic is a huge problem in our lives. One of the ideas is to engineer plastic eating [bacteria](https://www.popsci.com/bacteria-enzyme-plastic-waste) or [fungi](https://www.sci-techuniverse.com/2018/12/a-fungus-that-can-eat-plastic-has-been.html). Experiments already begun, and accidents already happen... |
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It's been a couple of thousand years since humanity bombed itself back to the stone age. Most places are now safe to travel through but there's barely any sign of the old cities, new ones have sprung up in their place. The population is recovering, the forests are being cut for fuel and ship building, pe... |
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Suppose a team of explorers touched down on an Earth-like planet which do not generate its own magnetic field and there are always a thick layer of cloud covering the sky at all time. My question is how can they create an accurate map in such a scenario? (note there are no GPS satellites here!)
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*This question is in relation to **speculative biology/evolution:** A genre of science fiction and hypothetical branch of science which seeks to explore "what if" questions about life using established principles of biology, ecology, evolution and related scientific fields.*
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In my world, sapient beings cannot access iron for use in technology or anything else.
Iron does exist, in the same quantities as that on Earth, but no one can access it, so as general element composition is the same, including proportions of other metals. There is simply something stopping humans from m... |
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One of the biggest problems about writing merfolk warfare is related to weapons.
You can not slash underwater without expending a lot of energy, stabbing is much easier. Water has more drag than air and makes the sword move slower. That’s why in my merfolk society, swords are very rare. Most merpeople pr... |
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The Humern empire uses [Photonic Railways](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/96104/can-i-overcome-the-bandwidth-limitation-on-my-photonic-railways) to transport its unimaginably vast cargo containers from one solar system to the next. These ships can reach truly staggering velocities (>0.... |
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A creature has evolved to protect the herd. Its blood contains chemicals that act like pepper spray, burning the eyes and throat of anything around it. However it wants to be able to get a decent coverage on a pack of predators.
**So how large an area could the blood be sprayed into?**
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Despite being awesome marvels and once incredibly important, ever since explosives became a thing, castles have become obsolete. Until now...
Imagine two equally advanced civilizations at war. Both factions feel as if castles make great forts in that day of age (futuristic scifi).
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(First time posting on worldbuilding, be gentle!)
For reasons currently unimportant, Earth has been encased in a solid shell which is for all intents and purposes completely invulnerable. The shell cannot be damaged by (for example) meteor strikes or large explosions, and does not allow radiation to pass... |
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I have a race of people who have silver blood. Thing is, I'm really trying to keep it as realistic as possible despite this being a fantasy world. The blood has raw magic energy in it as well, but doesn't mix so were you to collect blood, there would be a silver/bright red (the color of raw magic here). ... |
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So in the sci.fi world I am currently building, I am trying for a fairly technical approach to space combat. Movement is cumbersome and you're strafing more so than performing maneuvers that aren't really possible in a vacuum. Larger ships are much slower since you're fully reliant on thrust to turn and ... |
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Suppose we have a planetary system in orbit around a [Class O](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_classification#Class_O) [hypergiant](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypergiant) star of 225 solar masses (larger than all but R136a1, the largest star we currently know of), 32,000 times as bright as our sun... |
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What kind of a scenario would have to occur in order for human beings to seek survival on the sea floor? It could be man made or natural, ice age or heat apocalypse, sudden disaster or gradual collapse, I just want to know how it could get to that point. I'm talking about either living on the bottom of t... |
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Given:
* An ahistorically powerful and advanced Aztec civilisation, anno late 1400s.
* A set of circumstances much like the ones that led Columbus west: one mad Aztec convinced the world was rather small and he could reach their trading partners (the Chinese) by sailing eastwards.
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I have found myself approximately 2000 years in the past, I didn't bring anything with me. But since I am here, I want to conquer the world with my knowledge from the future. Or as much as is possible within my lifetime.
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*AKA what do underground civs do with their poop?*
Vast underground networks of caverns, tunnels and caves are a staple adventurers' playground in many classic tabletop RPGs.
To make for entertaining games, these are populated with random monsters, eldrich beings and whole cities of creatures like dwarv... |
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I am writing a novel. In that novel, humans have settled a [tidally locked](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_locking) planet. That planet is positioned at just such a distance from its sun that the sun heats the planet to an average of 25 °C at the [substellar point](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subs... |
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So a zombie outbreak finally happened, but it's not like it is in the movies. Instead of craving the taste of human brains, those infected with zombiism simply want to shamble along, occasionally groaning, and on rare occasions forming herds. There is some indication that zombies enjoy the same things th... |
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Something has gone horribly wrong in Mundus, a fairly standard medieval fantasy world. A rather eccentric wizard was carrying out some research and one of his spells blew up in his face, causing a catastrophic event: throughout the world, every sentient being--humans, elves, dwarves, dragons, even the Go... |
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Countryistan is a large island nation approximately 3,000 kilometers from the nearest landmass.
The government of Countryistan is secretly planning on committing genocide and ethnic cleansing against a portion of its population in about a decade.
A powerful billionaire/member of the ruling party who's se... |
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[This blog post about binary-star systems](https://medium.com/universe-factory/life-on-tatooine-planets-in-binary-star-systems-4bee211d4dfc) points out that, rather having the stars be close together, they could be far apart and a planet might orbit just one of them. It gives the example of the binary sy... |
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## In my world, religion isn't simply true — it's manifestly true.
*Generally, prayers are "correct" if they ask for a clearly identifiable and somewhat plausible object, or effect, or event. More detailed rules at the end of the post*.
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I'm talking about this sort of liquid sand:
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"Desert-as-sea-analog" is present in many media, but often they lean heavily into fantasy, and it seems not many of them have explained how it works. I'm guessing it's a regular desert with some sort of geyser-like ... |
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In my Fantasy world there exists a crevice. Plants and animals made of glittering, iridescent crystalline structures in abundance. The crevice can contain any arbitrary materials that might make the existence of such creatures, though it must also be livable for humans and exist alongside the rest of the... |
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Imagine a world two or three hundred years in the future, starting from now, in which some corporations (or groups of them) become independent states with sovereign territories. I’m aware this is very unlikely to happen in the today's world, that’s why I’m giving three hundred years for political, sociol... |
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I am creating a fictional fantasy (Medieval-ish era) world. The area covered by my map is fairly large, and contains an ocean, mountains, plains, lakes, forests, swamps, etc. It's pretty much all there (save for desert and tundra).
In my world, races are largely limited to one area. So for example dwarv... |
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We've made an important discovery. With the power of unobtainium and handwavium, a highly advanced species that lives in higher dimensional space has provided us a room on Earth that has its own passage of time. It's a gift to humanity, so an international agreement has been made to ensure that it's used... |
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This is the start of an experiment to see just how useful Worldbuilding Stack Exchange can be. I'm planning a work of fiction, but rather than build the world around the story, I'd like to write the story in the world - in other words, making the setting without thinking about how it will be used. To do ... |
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In a world with rideable dragons, what skills would you look for in a knight, and how would they train for it?
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When I was a kid, I read an essay by Asimov describing an *inside-out asteroid*: (summary from Wikipedia)
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I imagine a biological creature, let's call it 'Marco' for now.
Marco can vomit living slimes that survive by attaching to the ground and by doing photosynthesis, at first soft can be shaped and modeled before it hardens permanently.
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On Earth, we use taxonomy to organize biological organisms into an identifiable hierarchy in which organisms that are evolutionarily related are placed in close proximity. This evolutionary approach to classification is a fairly recent innovation, dating back to Charles Darwin's publication of "Origin of... |
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In the near future on our own planet of Earth, an odd plague has descended from space. It affects glass. Any glass whether natural or man-made turns into powder. The chemical elements are the same, it's just like incredibly finely ground glass.
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So there is a god. That god has created the world and has almost unlimited power; however he cannot mess with people's minds.
So far, so good. However, there's a problem: The god doesn't like it if people worship him. However he even less likes if people worship other gods, even non-existing ones. He'd p... |
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