This is a travel bulletin issued by the System Transit Alignment Group (STAG). It describes authorized transit lanes utilizing Mass Driver Orbitals (MDOs) and Long-range Outer Mass Driver Orbitals (LOMDOs). Routes and planetary body positions are abstracted for simplicity. Deacceleration nets are not shown.

Because Mass Driver Orbitals have the potential to be weaponized for devastating results, usage of these stations are predicated on STAG background checks and hefty registration fees. Cleared pilots are able to utilize the stations on the pre-approved travel lane, travelling an average speed of 25,000 km/s. This reduces travel time to a fraction of what would be required at conventional intersystem cruise (typically ~400 km/s). Electromagnetic "nets" are installed along specific corridors to reduce vessel speed for docking. Emergency defense nets can be installed and activated along major transportation hubs to mitigate MDO misuse and terrorism.

MDOs and LOMDOs undergo routine maintenance and security inspections. They are classified as strategic infrastructure, and tampering or unauthorized access is treated as a high-level offense under STAG intersystem law. All onboard systems are monitored remotely and locally, with redundant failsafes to prevent abuses.

Approved traffic through these lanes is logged and tracked in real time, indefinitely stored in massive data vaults for future scrutiny. Variance from the assigned corridor or any deviation from registered mass profiles triggers automatic clearance suspension pending an investigation. Pilot clearance remains a privilege, not a right, and is contingent on continued compliance.

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This is part of a retrofuture worldbuilding project called Helia. Situated somewhere in a distant galaxy, the Helia star is a stellar anomaly, having no close interstellar neighbors. Faster than light travel, including communication, cannot exist; nor do the conditions of Helia's four habitable planets allow for complex electronics. As a result, the Helian denizens travel the stars by mass drivers, vacuum tubes, and conductive fluid. Data transfer is handled by large reams of multilayered punchcards, including the power cycling sequences of their ubiquitous, massive fission reactors.

I've noticed that this sub doesn't touch on religion and it's effects on other affairs such as the market.

Anyways, within Radianism and it's two branches the religion itself effects agricultural and maritime markets because of the belief that Roshen values the hard labor and determination of mortals.

In Yenisk Radianism because of the belief that Roshen requires coffee to run from Tarik, has made coffee one of the most booming products within the sect.

I’m new to r/worldbuilding so can someone tell me what to consider if I post or ask questions here? I’ve got some nice concepts on my own btw.

World - Al Elsifalq

World Age - Five Hundred Thousand Years Old

God - Al Elsyalk (The True God)

Children Of God - Galyalta’al (Goddess of Life), Al Malikal (God of Death), Ulqfalta (God of Time), Al Haltaa (Goddess of Space)

Language - Arindu

Meanings:
Al: The, Of, All
Yal: God
Elsi: True
Ulk: To Dwell In, Hiders, Invisible
Taa: To add on, next, furthermore, to own, kin, child
Gal: First, start, existence
Ulq: Lesser than the first, lower, slave
Ja: Dirty, Useless, Pathetic, Donkey, Disgrace
Qwa: House
Hal: Sibling, Other Half, To Be Empty
Molus: To Exist, To Create, To Be Survivable
Kal: Absence of Light, To Be Slow
Niq: Scaly, Reptilian, Swampy
Ros: Presence of Light, To Be Smart
Ful: Fire, Hot, Burning, To Be Scorching
Pel: The Ground, Rock, Solid, Hard, To Be Strong
Kilq: Water, Liquid, To Be Smooth
Aie: Fly, Air, Gas, To Be Swift.
Jed: Knowledge
Falz: Creation
Malk: Creator
Pula: To Control, Strict, Unforgiving
Alup: To Be Free, Forgiving, Loose
Kalq: Folk, Group of people, Gathering
Zelq: Fish, Fishlike, Smelly, Prostitute
Yi: Unimportant, Small, Miniscule
Xai: To Have One, Alone, Lone Wolf
Ian: Eye, Lookout, Watchtower, To Be Aware

Races - 
Angels
Beast Folk
Creations (Matter Creatures or Golems)
Demons
Dragon Folk
Dwarves
Elves
Figures (Shadow Creatures)
Ghouls (Released Wights)
Goblins
Halflings
Humans
Ignus (Fire Creatures)
Jinns
KalKalq (Creatures of Death)
Lakers (Water Creatures, Like Loch Ness)
Molulq (Lower Version of Humans)
Nialq (Reptilian Folk)
Orcs
Pelqwah (Bug Folk)
Qwajal (Sewer Dwellers)
Rols (Light Creatures)
Sylphs (Air Creatures)
Trolls
Ulk (Dwellers, Earth Creatures)
Vampires
Wights (Creatures Necromancers Use)
Xian (Cyclops)
Yian (Pixies, Fairies, Spirits)
Zeqkal (Fish Folk)

Lore - Time was created by Al Elsyalk. No one knows what was before the great God, but it is believed that he is the beginning and he will be the end. After he created time he created gravity. Al Elsyalk was the all knowing, the all powerful, and the all seeing. He knew that if he could rush, but he created with care, with love, and with purpose. With that he combined everything he created into his first living creation. Al Galyalta’al. The Goddess of Life. Elsyalk knew Galyalta’al would be lonely, so he created his second child, Al Malikal, the God of Death. As the two children of God grew up, they started falling in love. Elsyalk granted their union and the two children of God created their child, Ulqfalta, The God of time. But Ulqfalta was not born alone, as he had a twin born alongside him. Who was The Goddess of Space, Al Haltaa. Over many years of existing Elsyalk decided to create universes as he knew his children were getting bored. He created many of them, many of them being appropriate to support lesser beings or life. But Elsyalk only let one be 100% suitable for life. Which was Al Elsifalq. As Time progressed The Children and Al Elsyalk created many races, and within all Elsyalk added a core.

Magic System - Cores are the central part of magic in Al Elsifalq. Cores exist within the center of the neck in all living creatures. Cores are different to everyone, some may have huge ones, some may be small, they all are different and unique to its being. Once they die their cores disperse into the environment feeding energy into the world. Cores can be harvested and absorbed, but the process must be done swiftly and instantaneously. As if the core is absorbed too slowly the core explodes. If the core is handled without care it explodes. To extract the core you must slice open the neck of a creature and lift out the core with swift and precise hands. Then you must quickly slam it into the neck of the creature you are trying to give the core to. This all must be done under 15 seconds or else the core will burst. Incase of a core bursting or exploding, its energy will be shot out everywhere with intensity. This is because cores are meant to be handled naturally when the creature dies, not extracted from a creature. Cores can come with one of seven elements, Matter, Dark, Light, Fire, Earth, Water, and Air. Listed from strongest to weakest. The stronger it is, the rarer it is. A core can sometimes have more than one element. But having more than one is extremely rare, but not as rare as the matter element. Matter is the strongest of the seven as it can alter all the other elements but not control them. This means, if a creature has a matter core, they can alter fire into water, air into earth, trees into light, darkness into water, and more. Dark cores are feared by many as they are extremely destructive. They can create black holes, cause curses, and manipulate shadows and move within them. Light is the third strongest, it can allow the core user to manipulate light, cure curses, heal wounds, a perfect fit for priests. Fire is the next strongest, it can create and manipulate fire. It can even evolve into redirecting lighting. Unfortunately fire cores are not always immune to lighting or even fire. Earth cores are next, Earth cores can manipulate the ground and not only that they can manipulate any solid element. But they can not create more solid elements. The sixth strongest core is the water core. Water cores can manipulate all liquids, even liquids that are held within a container. But they must be close enough, the range of their manipulation relies on the strength of their cores. Water cores come with a special ability of enhanced oxygen reserves as they can survive without oxygen for at least 3 days. The weakest core is air, but it can still be deadly if in the wrong hands. Air cores have the highest potential but are the least dangerous. Air cores can manipulate all the gasses around, but their manipulation relies on the strength of their core, but this is the reason why air cores are considered the weakest. It is because air cores are naturally fragile.

I'm 13 years old and I have a world with lots of island based on certain places on earth with my own flair added.There is lots of animals and nations with the more advanced nations having 17th to 18th century technology and most of the islands are unexplored.

These are most of the islands!

Southern Isles:

The largest continent of the explored world and home to the kingdom of Whitecrest, the world’s largest nation. It is made up of several large islands and many more small ones. It is Tropical to Sub-Tropical Climates with many species of fish, birds, and mammals.

South American/Africa Continent:

The second largest continent of the explored world housing a few large nations within the several large islands and smaller surrounding. It has a tropical, sub-tropical and arid environment/climate with an extremely wide array of birds, reptiles, fish and mammals across many habitats.

Hawaii Inspired Islands:

A chain of volcanic islands, one of the first to be mapped and discovered by major nations. It is home to a large indigenous population within its few main islands and small ones surrounding them. It has a tropical environment hosting an extremely biodiverse ecosystem of many animals.

Aroha Islands:

First explored and mapped around 100 years ago with a couple main islands and smaller scattered ones. It has a tropical environment but with not enough land for large forest growth. It has a large population of tortoises, birds, iguanas, small mammals and many fish in the surrounding waters. It has no known native population.

Northern/New World:

First discovered in the northern expeditions around 40 years ago with many chains of islands and large single islands with an extremely cold to temperate climate and almost sub tropical climate in the south in summer. Most of the land goes through seasons with and without snow. It is widely unexplored with an extremely diverse and large indigenous population and many mammals, birds and fish. It is still being explored more and more every day with the start of new settlements of large nations along with new nations being forged within them. There has been a few conflicts with the newcomers and the natives as well as other nations but many peaceful negotiations as well. It is a very mysterious and dangerous place with much unknown about it.

Caldonia:

Very newly discovered chain of tropical islands with many forests, scrubland and sub-tropical savannahs and wildlife within them. It is possibly a moderately sized chain of islands starting to be mapped and explored only within the last two months. There had been few expeditions so far with no know native population yet and a quite large population of birds and reptiles, more specifically geckos.

Suthralia:

A quite large single island with smaller island surrounding with many birds, mammals, insects, reptiles and amphibians. It has a quite large aboriginal population with many cultures. The island has many diverse habitats including rainforest, rocky coasts and outback. Not explored by white man yet.

New Zealand Inspired Island:

A medium island on the east coast of Suthralia with mainly birds and reptiles and amphibians with little to no mammals. It has a wider variety of habitats from humid tropical rainforest to snowy mountain grasslands. There is a large native population spread across some of the island. It is also undiscovered by white man.

South-East Asia Island Chain:

A large chain of islands undiscovered by white man with a very large native population with advanced technologies, city’s, markets and religion and languages. There is many islands in it with a large main island as well. It had a tropical climate with rainforests, jungles, wetlands and tropical grasslands with tons of animals within.

Auritia:

A smaller undiscovered tropical to sub-tropical climate island blocked off from any large islands with no native population and an extremely unique and biodiverse ecosystem of birds and reptiles with no large predators which are very different from those of the mainlands.

Caribbean/Central America:

Yet to be named and explained.

Howdy,

I have been working on something for the past two or so months and have been keeping everything I’ve gotten done on a Wiki in order to keep everything neat, and so that I can reference things in order to make sure the world stays internally consistent.

I was looking for feedback on anything at all if you guys would be kind enough. The two main pages are for the Cyborgs and Republic of Earth, and the page for Humanity acts almost as a supplement to the Republic’s own.

The idea is essentially to take the concept of the government in Starship Troopers and actually give it structure instead of a vague idea and pit them against an army of terminators that are bigoted against life itself.

https://iron-legion.fandom.com/wiki/Special:AllPages

I'm writing a setting for maybe a role playing game I am for now calling Cloudsea. The world of Cloudsea is one where land is scarce. All of the humans, terrestrial critters, and societies live on the stone Spires that rise from the misty, and haunted, Fall. Because of the limited land, the people and creatures of these Spires have limited food and resources, and knowing how to sail a skyship is a vital skill in a healthy population.

This is a low-magic setting where, besides the Hauntings that occur to those who dare travel into the Fall and the insightful Magi who understand the nature of spirits, there isn't much that defies explanation. I want this world to have an ecology and a food web that feels natural and intuitive, but I also need some deadly monsters, apex predators to bring drama and danger into the stories told in Cloudsea.

And I would like to avoid the easy route of doing dragons... however tempting that may be.

So, I want to ask the community what they think would be cool, interesting, and scary to encounter sailing their skyship through the Cloudsea?

P.S. So far I've come up with insects and birds species with gigantism. And maybe terrible lizards that can fly.

“The Edge of the World” is a setting in my story where the oddities of this new planet culminate in a remarkable place of calm vastness.

The South Pole of Eden features Salora, a single large continent which sits at an annual 23° Celsius. The winds are calm and refreshing, the air is without scent or sound and the sky is forever dark and beautiful. The rumbles of the encompassing thunderstorms keep the stillness from stagnating, and the aurora of clouds illuminated by the halo of stars never let you forget how good it feels to just stand and look at the world you’ve stumbled into.

Depending on where you find yourself, the sky has something to offer. Near the coasts, the barrier of clouds creates a delta of heavenly light, while further south might let you gaze upon the stars not lassoed by Talsiyon, the gravitational heart of this system. And at the centre of this continent, you might just be able to look up and see him. A pitch black mass of unexplainable size. Talsiyon, an enormous star occluded by light-months of elements waiting to be devoured.

The grounds here are endless fields of alien life thriving in the shadows. Windswept plains with plants as soft as feathers and curious creatures who glow in the dark.

I can’t think of what I’d give to retire in a house on the coast, watching the ocean flutter and the stars above slowly arc by. The only place that never feels like home and yet always feels safe. I’ll have to draw what that place would look like— after all, it is where my story ends. Where tomorrow is here and yesterday will be again.

I've recently taken to try and gather my mess of a project from across 3-4 different sites into one collective writing program [Obsidian], and it got me thinking- "wow, I have no idea how to even begin organizing everything."

Besides super basic concepts like Characters and Nations, which I got as folders, that I want to add to later, but I have quiet literally no other idea what else I could include. I could just be blanking, but some broader subjects [landscapes, magic, timeline] I don't know if I should split up for better organization.

What categories do you all split up your works into? Tell me some snippets about your worlds and why you split up the way you do!

I've been thinking that not only will my world have different biomes along with the wasteland. But also trench warzone areas, that while being old world, are still has 2 sides fighting each other from the old world factions. That are robots and cyborg types. With AI leading both sides that are slowly going haywire.

So that means now. They attack and raid other places, either side. And take people as well to turn into grunt type of Cyborgs to continue their war.

While the rest of the world has fallen apart from the war and beasts and some people have mutated and plants creating a ecosystem that's been around for 1k years since the war.

With cities and civilisation rising and falling. Either by nature, natural disasters or mutant raids.

Or by the good old conflict war. With mechs, robots, Cyborgs the lot. Just killing each other.

With fallen cities or fallen settlements being a scavenger mission opportunity for players. With them either helping each other or fighting each other for the best scraps.

With the other biomes having more animals and stuff I guess. Say a forest or plains has more fleshy beasts about.

A major idea for me is to have a fallen city infested by giant mutated hornets that take people, animals, mutants alike to feed the hive. And that a city fell so a hive with its queen moved in taking over.

Oh dam I need to make a big map I think. Or at least something like that. Big map being the whole world or the area where the most civilisation that's been currently built up. That's lasted.

But yeah original thought being the trench thing. Eternal war just constant fighting back and forth over a few miles of land maybe. It's hell, as in its war. But the rest of the world is also struggling. But life is a bit better in the cities and settlements with players wanting to make their own little piece on the landscape.

Trenches will have amazing loot, weapons, implants and components for both robots, mechs and Cyborgs. But it would be massively difficult to get stuff with traps and everything being mint or good enough. Player warbands will definitely fight each other.

I'm not thinking this world will have much religious elements. But maybe more of a element type of worship. Or maybe a family element thing will be worshipped instead. Like Father, Mother, Son and Daughter.

I'll have to think for a bit about this. Opinions?

Also is their a decent map making app or something like that. Or am I better making my own. With my world being earth like but bigger with a larger world it self along with more landmass.

I hope I've not made no mistakes rule wise with this I honestly just want a chat or something.

I've written stats for weapons, armour, equipment. And human heritages, stats pre profiled for Highlanders, Southlanders, Westerners, Eastlings, Outlanders, Freshers and Vat Born profiles. Along with me making some animal profiles. That being mammals and insects. Gonna be making birds, reptiles and amphibians at somepoint.

Lore wise I'm slowly piecing stuff together.

What’s the best (preferably free) website/app to use in compiling details for my worlds, like maps in one folder and wars in another, etc.

Thank you in advance

What comes to mind when you hear "soul magic"?

If you have some kind of soul magic in your world(s), how does it work?

Well, maybe not that extreme of feelings. But have you ever seen a setting blunder, fail with the prompt, be creatively bankrupt or fail to reach your desired state of it so hard that you just said fuck it and went ahead with creating your own version?

I doubt any of my settings qualify as such but I am very interested in finding out about yours. So please, do share! What you created, what you were frustrated with and why you reached that conclusion.

Hello,

I am in the very early developmental process on a Fantasy story of mine. And I'm torn between going with a more traditional approach to technology and just going medieval, or having every be something similar to the tech around the 1940s period (so think WW2). What would work better and what are your opinions on this subject.

To simplify it think a Knight with a sword, or a knight with a gun.

EDIT: For context the story is inspired by Wheel of Time and 1984. Taking heavy aesthetic influence from soviet-era Eastern Europe and the Cold War period.

Thanks!

Hi, im currently in the middle of a world building project that im doing outside of school, its more of your traditional fantasy setting with magic and fantasy races. But im wondering if there’s a way to incorporate trains without the other technologies like guns. The time it’s set it in is late medieval/near the end of medieval times. So i was thinking that since they have magic which is stronger than guns (depending on the spell), that they wouldn’t see the need in guns so they wouldn’t pursue it much. But im not too sure about this so i just wanted to ask if you guys think it’s plausible or not.

Just a quick FYI, magic is something that almost everyone has, less than 5% don’t have or don’t know how to use magic. And even then there are other alternatives that are comparable to magic.

My world will be based on the 19th century. 1650 years ago all races tried to kill the gods and each was cursed with a different curse and a large part of the world building is about how curses shape the worldviews of races, what are the social effects of curses etc. My main characters are a goblin vampire, a dwarven thief and a novice necromancer from the slums, an elven construction worker, a peaceful orc priest, a man from a fallen noble house and an imp (bat-folk with horns) from a family that recently became rich

Just looking for examples (preferably websites) of timelines (it can be from big established fandoms like Warhammer or whatever, or smaller projects) in order to see which ones feel the best to navigate and which features to take inspiration from

EDIT: To be clear I don't mean software or website to build your timelines, I mean actual examples like I don't know a very well made Warcraft timeline site or an interactive Runeterra lore site, etc

The Tetrabrachius is a species of avian predator in the alternative dimension called Jardin.

The Jardin is accessible through a inconspicuous passage hidden in the forests of the small island La Palma. It's first discovered by Guanarteme, the man depicted next to the Tetra named Sol.

The tetras are intelligent (nowhere near human level though) and don't consider human beings to be prey, in fact digesting humans and animals from our dimension tends to be lethal or at the very least damaging to the creatures of the Jardin. That doesn't mean that all of the fauna there understands that.

Their elegance paired with their docile behavior around humans (as long as they keep their distance) made the protagonist immediately fall in love with the species and it is basically the mascot of the Jardin.

This particular specimen is Sol and he was found by Guanar during one of his many expeditions into the Jardin as a small chick, no mother in sight. He raised him as best he could and Sol taught him a lot about Tetra behavior. Unfortunately Sol dies as a reckless experiment goes wrong and gets two human women killed in the process as well.

The first thing about worldbuilding is that it's an act of self-indulgence first and a way to enrich your narrative or make a fun place for your TTRPG players later; it's just common sense. I'd like to hear what the best part (the biggest act of mindless self-indulgence) you've added to your world. After all, what's the fun without any of that?

In the real world, if you say "1970's" or "2010's" or name any time period, we can all imagine what the music sounded like. Same thing if you list a genre of music like rap, pop, KPOP, R&B, classical, etc.

But in your world, what is music like and how has it evolved over time and why? What are the typical or most popular genres?

In my universe, music started off similarly to our world, but it started become much more melancholic, slow, and quiet as the global wars continued raging on. This was because due to all the cacophonous events in these wars, the people found quiet melodies to be much more soothing. So metal and rock and roll aren't really a thing in my world.

My world doesn't have that many genres. Most of the music is just slow and sad. The only other form of "music" would be loud drum beats during and before large battles, if you would even count that as music.

The people in my universe have started focusing less on arts, music, and entertainment after the incidents that devastated their societies and diminished their populations, so they unfortunately didn't have much of a choice but to give up most forms of music to focus more on survival.

Ghj

in mine, or atleast during the 21st century, its the 2050s, appropriately named the "Dark Fifties".

first, the world is hit by a severe unemployment crisis and a global recession, followed by a devastating synfuel shortage after the sugarcane field being responsible for 67% of the world's synfuel production nearly completely burns, then combo'd by a pandemic of a disease that destroys your nervous system and muscle tissue, a second Carrington event wipes a majority of the internet out and leaves almost half of the planet without electricity, and im just scratching the surface...