Science Fiction Setting

ikazuchi — Sat, 03 May 2008 20:45:59 +0000

In the early 21st century, an anonymous person under the handle ‘Captain Gravity’ posted detailed mathematical formula detailing how gravity worked as well as plans for a primitive gravity manipulation machine. The debates in academic circles lasted months. Two years later, the first physical prototype gravity engine was publicly unveiled, assembled by General Electric. The gravity engine, codenamed Archeoptryx, lifted into the South Pacific sky and into the history books where it hovered for almost twelve minutes before settling to the ground. Archeoptryx was a titanium ring wrapped around a faraday cage of rare-earth magnets and thirty-two types of metallic wire. Within the cage was housed both the engine and the massive power supply. The ring was eighteen feet across and the cage was slightly thinner, only fourteen feet.

Eight years of refinement reduced the size of the engine by a meager two feet in both directions and did nothing for the extreme level of power consumption, though the intervening years did generate better methods of power generation. Another three years saw the first launch of a colonization vessel towards the moon, and six more years the first manned exploration vessel towards Mars. Another three years saw the USSV Sky Eagle, the first Haslett class long range exploration vessel begin its voyage to wander our solar system and better understand our cosmic neighborhood.

It didn’t get far.

Near the orbit of Neptune came first contact with extraterrestrials. A squad of forty Soquindus warships interdicted the Sky Eagle’s journey and bombarded it with communications in over eighty languages and dialects. Their message was simple: Don’t leave the solar system. Once the humans of Guinturra, their name for Earth, had established a planetary government capable of speaking for our planet it could petition the Gamedian League for probationary membership. Any attempts to leave the solar system would be obliterated.

End Message.

It has been twenty three years since that ultimatum, and humans are still stuck in earth, resigned to their galactic reservation.

Colony Ship Alpha

ikazuchi — Fri, 02 May 2008 20:22:10 +0000

Please correct me if I’m wrong, but an idea I’ve never read about in any science fiction is the reversal of the classic concept of a colony ship.

The basic premise resides around a race of intelligent extra-terrestrials that have launched their first intergalactic expedition. These aliens have roughly the same level of technology as humans, a little more advanced in some places, a little behind in others, but have geared their country/planet to exploring space much like the United States when Kennedy announced that we Americans would be the first people on the moon.

Now imagine a civilization that after reaching their moon didn’t stop there and instead continued to push onward. Soon after they hit several of their solar system’s planets and then, after years of planning and toil, launch their first colony ship at what they determine to be the closest planet that can sustain their form of life.

Earth.

The colony ship takes over a hundred years to reach earth using some specialized deep space engines. Upon arrival, in our present day, they find the planet they hoped to claim as the first intergalactic colony of their race/country turns out to be inhabited by us. Earthlings. Humans.

Natives.

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Colony Ship Alpha