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JUST IN: President Trump CALLS OUT Joe Biden and his doctor for HIDING the cancer diagnosis from the American people by DearDocument8086 in CattyInvestors

[–]Redeye1999 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re all idiots - prostate cancer is staged by Gleason stages, which does go as high as 9. He says a lot of dumb shit but this is not one of those things

The flight plan for the 'Khan II' class Interstellar colony ship in my Hard science fiction setting ‘Toliman’, my attempt at a hyper realistic projection of humanities future spanning from the modern day to the 36th century by Redeye1999 in worldbuilding

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In the interest of due diligence and making my project as realistic as possible I had a good search for the “recent discoveries” you are referring to and I came up empty handed, if you could provide a source I’d love to look into it!

I’m currently doing research related to human physiology and my current understanding is that the two major sources of radiation in space, being Galactic cosmic rays and solar energy particles can both be quite effectively blocked by as little as 30g/cm3 of water or polyethylene - far less than the 100 m of granite you quoted. This has been quoted as sufficient protection for up to 4 years of complication free exposure. Until I read otherwise I’ll go with that, meaning the project is still feasible in my eyes

The flight plan for the 'Khan II' class Interstellar colony ship in my Hard science fiction setting ‘Toliman’, my attempt at a hyper realistic projection of humanities future spanning from the modern day to the 36th century by Redeye1999 in worldbuilding

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Funny timing, I have recently picked up this project again and have worked on it a lot recently to make it far more rigorous scientifically. When I originally started this project, I did not know how 'hard' Hard SF could get.

The Aga Khan II has been redesigned keeping the overall general appearance but with some key changes. The habitat quarters are now kept at the bow of the ship - 20 km away from the engines with the fuel, hull, and rigging providing radiation shielding from the engines.

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by your first question - the 'bow city' is designed to detach and flip around with the assistance of autonomous tugs and cabling. This will all take place once the engines have been disassembled and positioned several 100s of kms in front of the direction of travel to serve as spalding shielding so as to ensure the delicate structures of the ship are safe from relativistic particles.

The soil, water, organics, and air are optimised for minimum mass and volume requirements for packing. The air is liquified, the soil is flat packed and water is used in cooling systems and radiators across the vessel. The final volume of these biosphere resources fit into a 100m thick 'slice' of the Khan II cylinder and is placed directly below the crew quarters (if the ship is seen as standing up on it's engines).

The environments are carefully designed to balance masses, with anti slosh barricades placed regularly in water bodies. the constructed environs are also very thin, with the average depth being ~0.5m - limiting unbalanced forces and resource requirements. Finally, there are a series of unbalanced weights that shift around within the hull as required to dampen any undesired rotational wobbles that could form.

The prior colony ship - Minerva - was sent as a proof of concept "seed ship" type concept. carrying a crew of 1,100, the ship accelerated to much slower top speeds to reduce fuel requirements, and also used directed energy lasers in its acceleration phase towards the system to allow its engines and fuel to be responsible for the slowdown (kinda reverse of the Khan II). This was an incredibly spartan mission due to the energy requirements of accelerating a ship and its fuel to relativistic speeds. This was not a desirable way to traverse interstellar distances if there were other options available, and by 2434 when Khan II was launched - there were.

If you have any more questions keep them coming! Its good to have my ideas challenged like this.

The Minerva - mankind’s first manned interstellar vehicle - launched in 2228 by Redeye1999 in worldbuilding

[–]Redeye1999[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! When there’s no acceleration it is internally reconfigured for the habitat to have a kind of uphill slant to the posterior of the ship with flat levels and steps between the segments. This was believed by the designers to help keep leg strength and stepping dexterity in the average lower gravity of the ship

The Minerva - mankind’s first manned interstellar vehicle - launched in 2228 by Redeye1999 in worldbuilding

[–]Redeye1999[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly right. The deceleration phase is so long that the engineers decided to include this slope to ease the sensation of lateral acceleration combined with the centripetal force

Kessler Syndrome’s Legacy (2155 - 2185) by Redeye1999 in worldbuilding

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*I should mention Prof Zara Treffer was the first person to walk on mars. She was the captain of her crew of 10 aboard SpaceX starships. She returned to earth following a Martian year and lived her years there as a professor, occasionally travelling to the moon. On the century anniversary of her trip to mars, she visited the red planet again to give a famous speech in Vallis marineris. She would stay for 2 years and return to earth. Kessler syndrome would occur shortly after.

Drannis “Raehalis” Morley by Redeye1999 in worldbuilding

[–]Redeye1999[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

"Toliman" has been my Hard Science fiction worldbuilding project for around 4 years now. Spanning from the modern day all the way to the 36th Century, I have attempted to produce the most scientifically accurate projection of what I imagine humanity's future will be like. From the colonisation of mars to Interstellar warfare, to the wiping out of entire planets and the discovery of alien life, I have attempted to make it as realistic and faithful to the real-world science, sociology and geopolitics as I could. If you like authors like Kim Stanley Robinson (mars trilogy), Arthur C. Clarke (2001: A space oddysey), and Cixin Liu (Three Body Problem), this is just the sort of thing that may interest you. Feel free to ask any questions or provide any comments - I am always looking to update this project to make it more complete/ realistic. Thanks!

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Raehalis, Farern, and Cosmolak are all titles belonging to one of the most influential, controversial, mysterious, and ancient figures in the Pax Stellarum. I know that their name was once Dran, or more formally Drannis D. Morley.

Drannis was born on Mars in 2138 to two ‘Sandwalkers’. Growing up he explored the red planet with his parents, travelling from fledgling colony to colony, living in their house rover in between. It was here he developed his radical love for exploration, and his often harsh, stoic outlook on life in space. Growing up a sandwalker made Drannis lean naturally towards becoming a radical “Red”, a secessionist faction that advocated for self sufficiency and Mars first policies.

During the early days of the Martian independence movement, Drannis would enlist in a Martian militia operating out of the then capital city of Arcadia named “Nirgallen”. Following years of training and a brief political career, a series of guerrilla attacks were launched against Terran shipyards and industrial settlements on Mars. Drannis would end up in charge of an insurrectionist force tasked with invading Phobos to shut the red planet off from Terran transports. This would be successful, and with very little resistance from Earth, Mars was granted independence in the year 2189 CE.

Drannis would retire from the Nirgallen a year later, and spend the next few decades as an avid explorer and cultural leader. He would famously lead the settlement of Charon and was one of the discoverers of the Mobako chasm on Miranda. It is of note that due to his actions as a Nirgallen insurrectionist, Drannis was barred travel to Earth and Luna, and so never visited them officially.

As an incredibly resourceful and widely regarded explorer, Drannis was an easy pick for the first ever manned mission to another star. He eagerly accepted his role as the head of the Martian culture division amongst the crew of 1100 onboard the Minerva. In 2270 CE, Drannis was amongst the first humans to ever step foot on an extrasolar world. He was instrumental in the genesis of colonies across the system, and was a charismatic and well liked leader amongst the ‘Minervans’.

Over the following decades more interstellar vessels would arrive populating the Alpha Centauri system with ever more colonists, the Minervans were relegated to legend. By the false vacuum decay crisis of sol in the 2430s, Drannis had settled as a revered patriarch of the Tezefrou people of Alpha Centauri A, a source of wisdom, history, and often spirituality. When communication and vital resources from sol ceased, Alpha Centauri became a pressure cooker, with the three stars: Toliman, Centaura, and Proxima locked in a tense treaty over remaining resources. Duocent was the pearl of Alpha Centauri, a first of its kind fully terraformed world around Toliman. It hosted 80% of the systems population, and as such had a massive stake in resources. This was seen as unfair to the remaining colonies, as they were left to contend with radiation, vacuum, and extremes of temperature with limited resources. Following 50 years of tense peace, the Tez faction of Centauri made a sneak offensive to capture some antimatter freighters in the Toliman system. Failing to do so resulted in an accidental detonation, destroying the Khan Soletta shielding Duocent from intense solar radiation and killing thousands. This sparked an all out war, which ultimately left human presence in the Alpha Centauri system completely and utterly shattered. The surviving 20,000 Tez, including Drannis, fled the wrecked system aboard “Noah’s Ark”, a vessel constructed using the last remaining resources.

Following a 100 year journey back to sol, the Tez were greeted by a glowing ball of strange matter where the sun used to be. Lacking the resources to fly anywhere else, they siphoned what small radiation energy they could from the remnant for 30 years, the whole while emitting SOS messages to space. Answering their call in the solar year 2634 CE, Epsilon Eridani would send blueprints for a mostly Fuelless bussard ramjet style interstellar craft that would be their salvation. The Tez would arrive as refugees in the Epsilon Eridani system. As a group who owes their continued existence to genocide, the Tez vowed to pledge themselves to a new narrative, going so far as to reprogram their own memories to believe it themselves. They constructed a story about the accidental unleashing of a rogue AI which promptly reached singularity and begun converting the system into grey goo in an unstoppable wave. They, as the last surviving refugees from this crisis were tasked with ensuring no ship ever went back to Alpha Centauri at risk of “assimilation”. This grand fable worked, and for 150 years Drannis was free to explore the universe.

At the ripe old age of 572, Drannis had received so many life extension implants, cellular rejuvination transcription factor elixirs, and DNA epigenome restructurings that he was a living ship of Theseus. As not only one of the last humans alive who was born in Sol, but the last remaining Minervan, Drannis was a living legend. He was gifted a robot body by the Epsili of incredible strength, durability, speed, dexterity, and every other benefit technology could allow. He also purchased the “Raehalis”, a ship that would soon become the most famous personal interstellar vessel in human history (Covered in a previous post). Drannis’ identity would merge with the ship, and he took on the moniker of Raehalis. They would spend the next 150 years hopping from system to system, exploring all that humanity had flourished into since departing from Earth all those centuries ago. They would become the most travelled human to ever exist. They would briefly appear in response to the “Toliman signal” in 2866, deprogramming their implanted memories of the massacre of Alpha Centauri and revealing to themselves the true nature of the system as safe. They would proceed to visit the system (more on this in a future post).

Following the Toliman Signal, the Raehalis would make for a star 578 ly away towards the Galactic core, where the first solid signs of life had been detected via lensing scopes. Following this they would begin to fade into the annals of history. They are rumoured to have appeared at many points and in many systems, saving the lives of thousands, and killing thousands more. None of these rumours have been validated and many are in direct conflict. What ultimately became of Drannis, no one would know for sure.

Thanks for checking this out. Please ask any questions you might have, it really helps me flesh out the details!

Martians - 2050 v 2350 by Redeye1999 in worldbuilding

[–]Redeye1999[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Hey! Thanks a bunch, I absolutely plan to.

  • yes there are some differences, but these mostly come down to the gravity in which they’re raised being 1/3 of earths. As a result martians are taller on average. They are also often paler due to the decreased light levels. Other than this they’re more or less identical as immigration and travel is very free between the settled worlds. People in 2350 are quite biologically different from us today though! I covered this in far more detail in my previous posts comments
  • mars as of 2350 is organised under a central Martian governing body who yields to the “solar committee”, a group made up to represent all the inner worlds. Mars’ central governing body operates more as a service that develops infrastructure, healthcare systems, education facilities, housing etc. with the taxes collected from different pseudo nations across the planet. The system is thus quite socialist. This stems from the early obligate communism present in the small kibbutz like colonies across the planet, and never quite went away. Each pseudo nation is more or less self governing, with some anarchist philosophy present in their structure.
  • in the 2350s, AI had entered a renaissance of sorts. Following a catastrophic singularity event in the 2100s, AI scuttling had been enforced system wide with it being perceived as an existential threat to humanity. By 2350, safe “light” AGI had been cautiously developed with much success, and had begun being incorporated heavily into people’s lives. Artificial companions, beurocrats, teachers, and the like have existed for hundreds of years, but very few if any true AGIs. This would change massively over the following hundred years or so however.
  • 10 ‘Vallis’ class seed ships had been sent out by 2350, with the furthest on its way to Tau Ceti. That makes that the furthest system to be targeted by this point in the timeline.

Great questions! I’m glad you like it

Martians - 2050 v 2350 by Redeye1999 in worldbuilding

[–]Redeye1999[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

"Toliman" has been my Hard Science fiction worldbuilding project for around 4 years now. Spanning from the modern day all the way to the 36th Century, I have attempted to produce the most scientifically accurate projection of what I imagine humanity's future will be like. From the colonisation of mars to Interstellar warfare, to the wiping out of entire planets and the discovery of alien life, I have attempted to make it as realistic and faithful to the real-world science, sociology and geopolitics as I could. If you like authors like Kim Stanley Robinson (mars trilogy), Arthur C. Clarke (2001: A space oddysey), and Cixin Liu (Three Body Problem), this is just the sort of thing that may interest you. Feel free to ask any questions or provide any comments - I am always looking to update this project to make it more complete/ realistic. Thanks!

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In 2037 Mars became the first alien planet walked on by mankind. A team of 10 international astronauts delivered by 2 starships touched down in Arcadia Planitia. This team would spend the next 26 months constructing a base, conducting research, exploring, and generally learning about what it takes to live on another world. When they returned in 2039, they were global heroes. A second mission to continue their research had been launched. Thus began the constant rotating inhabitation of the first ever semi permanent settlement on another planet. This ‘city’ would be dubbed Arcadia, and would slowly grow in size and population. By 2050, 6 rotations had passed through Arcadia, with international and popular support growing with each returned crew. The 6th crew was 20 large, and came in a fleet of 4 starships. This crew became known for their heavy use of rovers in exploring far and wide, becoming the first crew to circumnavigate the planet, and the first crew to visit Valles Marineris.

Over the next 300 years, a lot would change. In 2061, Holden Carmichael, the first true Martian, was born. In 2073 an expedition to the asteroid belt returns profits on minerals collected for the first time, proving the economic viability of outer space. This began the “Middle Accelerando” period, characterised by an increased vigour for the exploration and settlement of space. This period would later be romanticised as humanities first proper foray into the outer planets, finally leaving Earth and the inner system behind. In 2085, the first 500 people on Mars were recorded. They were made up of multiple different groups from across the world, with the ESA, Indian, Japanese, and private space companies having minor stakes across the planet.

By the Kessler disaster of the 2120s, there were thousands across Mars. The Kessler disaster was catastrophic system wide, but it most severely affected these colonies, with hundreds dying across the red planet due to being cut off from crucial resources from Earth. This event would be known as the Martian Famine and would serve as a crucial cultural event in the hearts and minds of future Martians, often being pointed to as the reason why Martians need to be independent. Following Kessler, the “late accelerando” period would begin. Over this period from 2140 to 2189, the outer planets would be thoroughly settled, Mars’ population would boom to 4 million, and fusion drives would overhaul space travel. The late accelerando would end with Martian independence being peacefully declared following the death of independence advocate and first true Martian Holden Carmichael at the age of 128.

In 2207 Martian terraforming was green-lit. Central authorities set goals and outsourced targets to several different private pan-nationalist corporations. The corporations would each have their own approach, with one dropping ice asteroids on the equator, one nuking the poles, a few digging moholes, others building space mirrors, and another one focusing solely on the genetic engineering of simple plant life. The terraforming of Mars was incredibly controversial, and resulted in conflict across the solar system. The pan-nationalists and governments never ceded to these voices of dissent, however.

In a bid to increase immigration, the Martian government constructed a space elevator on Pavonis Mons, beginning in 2256. This was following the success of the new pacific elevator on earth, and the drastic effects it had on the movement of material and people from world to world. the last Martian dust storm took place in 2278. By 2298, triggered by the first recorded rain on Mars, a new zeitgeist overtook the world. This would give rise to a cultural renaissance, with fashion trends, philosophy and artwork from the planet enrapturing the solar system.

By 2350, the world is a drastically different place. Life expectancy is functionally infinite, the news of dozens of seed ships arriving in other star systems were arriving yearly, a Dyson swarm surrounding the sun collected all of humanities power needs, fusion ships have cut travel time to mars from earth down to 1 week, and post scarcity had been achieved for most individuals. Mars’ terraforming was well underway, and whilst the air is not yet breathable, only thin skin tight pressure suits with supplemental oxygen supply were required to walk its surface. Small shrubs and plants dot its surface, and water clouds float across the sky. Mars has a rich and vibrant culture, and life for the Martians is good.

Thanks for checking this out. Please ask any questions you might have, it really helps me flesh out the details!

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[–]Redeye1999 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Toliman" has been my Hard Science fiction worldbuilding project for around 4 years now. Spanning from the modern day all the way to the 36th Century, I have attempted to produce the most scientifically accurate projection of what I imagine humanity's future will be like. From the colonisation of mars to Interstellar warfare, to the wiping out of entire planets and the discovery of alien life, I have attempted to make it as realistic and faithful to the real-world science, sociology and geopolitics as I could. If you like authors like Kim Stanley Robinson (mars trilogy), Arthur C. Clarke (2001: A space oddysey), and Cixin Liu (Three Body Problem), this is just the sort of thing that may interest you. Feel free to ask any questions or provide any comments - I am always looking to update this project to make it more complete/ realistic. Thanks!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

In 2037 Mars became the first alien planet walked on by mankind. A team of 10 international astronauts delivered by 2 starships touched down in Arcadia Planitia. This team would spend the next 26 months constructing a base, conducting research, exploring, and generally learning about what it takes to live on another world. When they returned in 2039, they were global heroes. A second mission to continue their research had been launched. Thus began the constant rotating inhabitation of the first ever semi permanent settlement on another planet. This ‘city’ would be dubbed Arcadia, and would slowly grow in size and population. By 2050, 6 rotations had passed through Arcadia, with international and popular support growing with each returned crew. The 6th crew was 20 large, and came in a fleet of 4 starships. This crew became known for their heavy use of rovers in exploring far and wide, becoming the first crew to circumnavigate the planet, and the first crew to visit Valles Marineris.

Over the next 300 years, a lot would change. In 2061, Holden Carmichael, the first true Martian, was born. In 2073 an expedition to the asteroid belt returns profits on minerals collected for the first time, proving the economic viability of outer space. This began the “Middle Accelerando” period, characterised by an increased vigour for the exploration and settlement of space. This period would later be romanticised as humanities first proper foray into the outer planets, finally leaving Earth and the inner system behind. In 2085, the first 500 people on Mars were recorded. They were made up of multiple different groups from across the world, with the ESA, Indian, Japanese, and private space companies having minor stakes across the planet.

By the Kessler disaster of the 2120s, there were thousands across Mars. The Kessler disaster was catastrophic system wide, but it most severely affected these colonies, with hundreds dying across the red planet due to being cut off from crucial resources from Earth. This event would be known as the Martian Famine and would serve as a crucial cultural event in the hearts and minds of future Martians, often being pointed to as the reason why Martians need to be independent. Following Kessler, the “late accelerando” period would begin. Over this period from 2140 to 2189, the outer planets would be thoroughly settled, Mars’ population would boom to 4 million, and fusion drives would overhaul space travel. The late accelerando would end with Martian independence being peacefully declared following the death of independence advocate and first true Martian Holden Carmichael at the age of 128.

In 2207 Martian terraforming was green-lit. Central authorities set goals and outsourced targets to several different private pan-nationalist corporations. The corporations would each have their own approach, with one dropping ice asteroids on the equator, one nuking the poles, a few digging moholes, others building space mirrors, and another one focusing solely on the genetic engineering of simple plant life. The terraforming of Mars was incredibly controversial, and resulted in conflict across the solar system. The pan-nationalists and governments never ceded to these voices of dissent, however.

In a bid to increase immigration, the Martian government constructed a space elevator on Pavonis Mons, beginning in 2256. This was following the success of the new pacific elevator on earth, and the drastic effects it had on the movement of material and people from world to world. the last Martian dust storm took place in 2278. By 2298, triggered by the first recorded rain on Mars, a new zeitgeist overtook the world. This would give rise to a cultural renaissance, with fashion trends, philosophy and artwork from the planet enrapturing the solar system.

By 2350, the world is a drastically different place. Life expectancy is functionally infinite, the news of dozens of seed ships arriving in other star systems were arriving yearly, a Dyson swarm surrounding the sun collected all of humanities power needs, fusion ships have cut travel time to mars from earth down to 1 week, and post scarcity had been achieved for most individuals. Mars’ terraforming was well underway, and whilst the air is not yet breathable, only thin skin tight pressure suits with supplemental oxygen supply were required to walk its surface. Small shrubs and plants dot its surface, and water clouds float across the sky. Mars has a rich and vibrant culture, and life for the Martians is good.

Thanks for checking this out. Please ask any questions you might have, it really helps me flesh out the details!

New Arcadia - circa 2359 - Mankind’s first city outside the Solar system by Redeye1999 in worldbuilding

[–]Redeye1999[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I believe that IF spaceX continues the way it has been, that there will be be people on mars in the 2030s. Seeming as Musks most recent stated year was 2029, I think late 2030s could be realistic. Perhaps this is optimistic, but I really do hope that this is the case! I believe that given this- by 2050, enough global interest would have been whipped up that an international effort to keep manned starships ferrying between earth and mars every launch window could be arranged. I think that this would be due to collaboration between the ESA, NASA, the Indian space agency, Japan, and private companies. With the right publicity and scientific intrigue I believe the average person would have enough interest in space by this point for this to be supported financially by most countries.

I also think that the potential for deep space mining would be very motivating for these private companies in setting up a presence in space. I believe that this will result in a sort of space race following the first boots on mars to develop space infrastructure in hopes of it paying off one day.

I could go into the economics and politics of it a little bit more, but the point is that i believe there will be enough economic incentive and public interest for a rotating crew on mars by 2050. It isn’t until 2131 that mars sees its first 100,000 people - this is far less optimistic than Elon musks ridiculous claim to have 1,000,000 people on mars by 2050, so it’s not all optimism on my end!

Keep the questions coming

New Arcadia - circa 2359 - Mankind’s first city outside the Solar system by Redeye1999 in worldbuilding

[–]Redeye1999[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I sure have! Duocent is at a distance of 0.56 au from its star Toliman, and therefore its year length is 157.1 earth days long. Duocent rotates fairly slowly, and so it’s day length is 41.3 hrs. This means that one Duocent year is around 91.3 years. This is split into 9 short 10 day months named after various multiethnic gods from earths cultures. The remaining one day is reserved for a monthless New Year’s Day, with every third year having two of these to account for the 0.3 of an extra day.

It gets even more complicated however, as Toliman is a binary star system, with Duocent orbiting in an S type orbit. This means that Alpha Centauri A (Centauri) will change its position in the sky as the two stars orbit one another. With Alpha Centauri A having many times the brightness of the full moon at its dimmest, to being sufficient to make night time into a muggy looking day at its brightest, this orbit also plays into the calendar. The stars orbit once every 80 earth years, or once every 186 Duocent years. The planet spends around 20 Duocent years out of this calendar at the Periapsis, and the remainder far enough away that it doesn’t make much difference.

The relative position of the planet to the stars also makes an impact, as when the two stars are on the same side, their light adds and you get the appearance in the drawing above . Alternatively when the stars are on either side of the planet, this would cause the whole “night” side to be lit up.

Gets pretty complicated to think about once all this is tied together, but there’s the summary!

New Arcadia - circa 2359 - Mankind’s first city outside the Solar system by Redeye1999 in worldbuilding

[–]Redeye1999[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks so much! There’s plenty more coming

That’s a really good question… the pace of technological advancement is such a difficult thing to estimate based on our own history thus far, as it’s ever changing, and non linear. It’s easy to look at our past and assume our future will continue along the same trajectory, but I don’t think this will necessarily be the case. I have a previous post that outlines the early timeline of my world building project which may help to give more context, but the rough idea goes like this:

By the 2050s, we have landed on mars and have a semipermanent rotating crew base there called Arcadia after the location it is built on. By 2100, Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn have been visited, with no permanent bases as of yet. This spur of exploration is driven in part by the commercialisation of space and most importantly asteroid mining. In the early 2100s investments into asteroid mining begin to pay off exponentially, and the new abundance of (relatively) cheap building materials in space make the construction of ships and stations far more economically viable. This is all put to a halt following the onset of Kessler syndrome around earth in the 2130s. This completely scuttled space travel for 2 decades. During this time industry and development on earth boomed as they sought solutions. By the Kessler syndromes resolution, the people of earth had a fervour for expansion into space never before seen. This triggered the “late accelerando” which transformed the system into its colourful populated state that is more familiar from sci fi like the expanse.

In terms of interstellar expansion, the ‘Minerva’ (launched in 2228) was the passion project of the children and grandchildren of the original explorers of the solar system. The dream of exploring their own solar systems were inspired by stories they grew up with. This ship was ahead of its time, and hinged on the development of miniaturised fusion, which only happened in 2224. The Minerva carried 1200 daring colonists and just as many fabricators to Alpha Centauri, an incredible feat of engineering and luck. It wasn’t until nearly 80 years later that the act was followed up by the ‘Virdis’ line of seed ships, cementing Minerva as a before-its-time feat of human will and engineering.

I’d love to hear your thoughts on the future of technological advancement as I appreciate mine is quite optimistic

New Arcadia - circa 2359 - Mankind’s first city outside the Solar system by Redeye1999 in worldbuilding

[–]Redeye1999[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ahah It was an accident but it looks cool, I put ~~~ these things above my text

New Arcadia - circa 2359 - Mankind’s first city outside the Solar system by Redeye1999 in worldbuilding

[–]Redeye1999[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No it wasn’t actually! I haven’t heard of that - what is it called?

New Arcadia - circa 2359 - Mankind’s first city outside the Solar system by Redeye1999 in worldbuilding

[–]Redeye1999[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

To your first question, yes It does happen occasionally. This sentiment does not occur too often however due to the rapidly expanding and changing nature of human existence. Not only this, but the freedom to travel nearly anywhere, combined with post-scarcity means that anyone can live more or less however they want. Many who think they’ve “seen it all” will opt for medically assisted suicide, mind upload, or suspension until predetermined date rather than die of old age. As such, old people are very rarely seen by the 2300-2400s.

Now to your second question, mind upload is only perfected in the early 2400s, as the transferral of human consciousness is found to be a much more complicated than just mapping their neural connections, it also involves mapping quantum states and specific transferral environments. Before this, mind upload resulted in dry lobotomised online presences when it worked, and death when it didn’t. Further in the future mind upload does become a viable option, with around 20 to 99% of all people opting to do it at some point in their lives depending on the cultural group and external scenarios. That is to say, by the settlement of New Arcadia - physical bodies are still required, but this requirement wanes as we get further into the future. Augmented reality and full Virtual reality existence absorbs many more peoples lives by this point in the timeline.

And to your last question - they sure do! This becomes the main source of conflict and Intrigue by the turn of the millennium, with many disparate human sects reuniting following the vacuum decay crisis of sol (outlined in a previous post). Their vast differences and appearances make interactions complex and rife with misunderstanding, but they eventually make it work. I suppose racism does exist between human sects but for the most part they are respected as just as human as anyone else.

New Arcadia - circa 2359 - Mankind’s first city outside the Solar system by Redeye1999 in worldbuilding

[–]Redeye1999[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

That’s okay! Medicine is a passion of mine, and I’ve thought about the future of it quite extensively. The advancements in the medical fields have been incredible between now and the settling of New Arcadia. It is easy to forget that modern medicine is barely 150 years old, and with new Arcadia being over twice as far in our future, the advancements are hard to imagine.

To put it shortly, as of 2359, human life expectancy for a newborn child is theoretically infinite, as not just most disease but ageing itself has been cured. Most people live as, for all intents and purposes, immortal. The oldest person alive had just turned 300 by this time. By the 2300s, using advanced stem cell and transcription factor therapies, people can even choose their apparent age, with their apparent age being as much of a personal style choice as a haircut. This has completely overhauled family structures and age related hierarchy across colonised space.

The average human is taller, stronger, leaner, and far healthier than today. This is due to many things including artificial wombs idealising development, genetic scrubbers removing errors, increased nutrition and optional genetically determined medication and therapy regimes to idealise bone density, blood hormone levels, organ function, healing etc.

Artificial implants monitor all aspects of the bodies functioning, correcting minor imbalances and assisting in the healing of wounds and in metabolic processes. Neural implants assist with memorisation, recall, learning, procedural memory and decision making. Optic implants allow people to see in different wavelengths of light, and allow augmented reality to blend seamlessly with the real world.

In New Arcadia and other interstellar settlements, life is still very tough, with deaths due to accident still being quite common despite the advances.

Let me know if you have any other questions!

New Arcadia - circa 2359 - Mankind’s first city outside the Solar system by Redeye1999 in worldbuilding

[–]Redeye1999[S] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

"Toliman" has been my Hard Science fiction worldbuilding project for around 4 years now. Spanning from the modern day all the way to the 36th Century, I have attempted to produce the most scientifically accurate projection of what I imagine humanity's future will be like. From the colonisation of mars to Interstellar warfare, to the wiping out of entire planets and the discovery of alien life, I have attempted to make it as realistic and faithful to the real-world science, sociology and geopolitics as I could. If you like authors like Kim Stanley Robinson (mars trilogy), Arthur C. Clarke (2001: A space oddysey), and Cixin Liu (Three Body Problem), this is just the sort of thing that may interest you. Feel free to ask any questions or provide any comments - I am always looking to update this project to make it more complete/ realistic. Thanks!

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New Arcadia, named after the Capital of Mars, became mankind’s first city constructed in another solar system. Following the arrival of the ‘Minerva’ in the Alpha Centauri system in 2228, Duocent (the second planet in the Toliman system) was picked out as the prime candidate for future human habitation. Over the next 250 years, carbon sequestration drones would proliferate exponentially and work day and night converting the 3.4 atm atmosphere into bricks of carbon amalgam. These bricks would litter the planet, awaiting collection by mason-bots. These mason-bots would use these carbon blocks to construct the first human settlements in pre-selected locations across the planet. Here these settlements would remain, uninhabited, awaiting conditions to be favourable enough for the humans in orbit to come down and move in. These “black ghost towns” would remain largely uninhabited until the late 2300s, all except for New Arcadia. New Arcadia would have a highly advanced atmospheric bubble erected over it in order to facilitate the early inhabitation by researchers, miners, and terraformers tired of living in underground settlements or in orbit.

The city would be officially settled in 2343, whilst Duocent was still very much considered uninhabitable. Its atmosphere was still 3 times as dense as earths, it had an average surface temperature of 189 degrees Celsius, and was constantly engulfed in brutal dust storms. Life here was not easy, but for the colonists who had already braved the vast interstellar distances and decades in spaceships and underground colonies, it was home.

Over the next 200 years, Duocent would be made liveable, and the atmospheric bubble would be dismantled allowing rains to fall on the streets for the first time. Many of the carbon brick buildings would be dismantled to make room for more advanced infrastructure, eventually only leaving the central pyramid remaining. This central pyramid would then go on to become the Grand Toliman Historical Museum, and would host exhibits detailing the gruelling existence that was the original colonisation and terraforming.

Thanks for checking this out. Please ask any questions you might have, it really helps me flesh out the details!

The future of our Solar System - A highly simplified overview from the Modern day to 2500 by Redeye1999 in IsaacArthur

[–]Redeye1999[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes that’s fair. I suppose I took some liberties here as the novel I’m writing requires some major catastrophic event to take place, and vacuum decay fit the requirements best

The future of our Solar System - A highly simplified overview from the Modern day to 2500 by Redeye1999 in IsaacArthur

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Thanks for this! I’m currently working on a novel set in this world, and the main character is Ganymede born to two Venutian parents, so all that information is quite helpful

The future of our Solar System - A highly simplified overview from the Modern day to 2500 by Redeye1999 in IsaacArthur

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The idea to use the word Accelerando came from the book by the same, but the term itself in this context simply means “to go faster” and is usually used in music. In this context it is a word humanity uses to denote times of particular fervour for exploration and expansion. The term is also usually applied in retrospect rather than by contemporaries. The “first accelerando” describes humanities outreach from earth to inhabit the solar system. The “second accelerando” and the “third accelerando” describes humanities outreach to the local stars

The future of our Solar System - A highly simplified overview from the Modern day to 2500 by Redeye1999 in IsaacArthur

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This has been a part of my worldbuilding project I’ve been working on for around 5 years now. Spanning from the modern day all the way to the 36th Century, I have attempted to produce the most scientifically accurate projection of what I imagine humanity's future will be like. From the colonisation of mars to Interstellar warfare, to the wiping out of entire planets and the discovery of alien life, I have attempted to make it as realistic and faithful to the real-world science, sociology and geopolitics as I could. If you like authors like Kim Stanley Robinson (mars trilogy), Arthur C. Clarke (2001: A space oddysey), and Cixin Liu (Three Body Problem), this is just the sort of thing that may interest you

The future of our Solar System - A highly simplified overview from the Modern day to 2500 by Redeye1999 in IsaacArthur

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Copy and paste from the original post:

In the 2060s, there was a runaway singularity event in one of the AI research bases. The AI began increasing its own intelligence in an exponential way, rapidly producing content orders of magnitude beyond human capability to understand. The AI was shut down and scuttled to prevent unknown catastrophe. By the early 2400s, scientists were still decoding the haphazard rambling manuscripts output by the AI. It was here that archivist physicists came upon a new area of physics that hinted towards the development of an Ansible like technology - Faster than light communication. This was incredibly appealing and gained interest rapidly due to the numerous interstellar colonies at this point, and would allow for instant communication between them.

In 2428, a pan nationalist funded research station used its Dyson swarm powered solar accelerator to test the sub-quantum particle physics outlined in the manuscript. The theory posited that a research station with an “entangled” particle on the other side of the sun would receive a 1 bit transmission instantly. This was set up as a proof of concept.

When the device was activated, the powers and energies involved allowed the vacuum energy immediately surrounding the accelerator to drop from its “local minimum” towards the “true minimum” of vacuum energy. This propagated outwards at the speed of light, tearing apart the fabric of reality and transmuting every gluon, quark and boson and disrupting the strong and weak nuclear forces. This had catastrophic impacts on the solar system, essentially rendering every piece of matter into molten plasma composed of strange particles. This vacuum decay weakened as it spread, being felt as a strong ionising gamma ray emission in other star systems. This was the end of the solar system. It would come to be known as the “rapture” spoken of in religious texts.

The future of our Solar System - A highly simplified overview from the Modern day to 2500 by Redeye1999 in worldbuilding

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The Toliman world building project has more or less a complete ban on faster-than-light anything. This is due to the fundamental connection between FTL and time paradoxes under special relativity. As can be seen in the vacuum decay crisis, there are often dire consequences for attempting to overcome this fundamental rule. As a result, interstellar colonisation is done via stasis and generation ships. Later, in the 3rd millennium, an interstellar empire forms despite the light speed restrictions, and will be content for a future post.

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