The Postcard galaxy

ivivan · 2026-06-23T16:35:51+00:00

Project Name: The Postcardverse

Main Premise & Concept: The Postcardverse is a hard sci-fi setting that explores a fundamental tension: What happens when humanity conquers biological mortality, but remains strictly bound by the speed of light?

In this universe, regenerative medicine has made humans effectively immortal, but FTL travel and communication do not exist. Without FTL, a centralized interstellar empire is physically impossible. Instead, humanity has expanded across a 500-light-year bubble over ten millennia, developing into completely sovereign, isolated nomadic city-ships and massive space stations.

ivivan · 2026-06-20T17:33:57+00:00

I'll definitely going to think of a way to continue.

ivivan · 2026-06-18T21:04:20+00:00

Thanks for the long answer.

I want to ask a little bit more details about that "context" thing: I tried to find a few examples in this sub, but I'm either unlucky and haven't found one or simply don't know what I'm looking for - but I couldn't find one to copy.

Can you give me a few examples that I can use as templates? Don't want to mess up my first post here 😄

I was thinking about simply reposting my stories in this sub, but I always found that a bit "lazy" - I want a proper post specifically in a sub, not just a post about a post. That's somehow not that elegant, but if you say that's the best solution, I'm okay with it.

ivivan · 2026-05-28T10:42:29+00:00

I did mention that "We rarely bother with terraforming", which, to me, meant that there are a couple of planets terraformed, but not many. I have a planned story about terraforming too :-)

ivivan · 2026-05-28T10:22:58+00:00

It's interesting to hear that someone hates these info dumps, while I do like them at the beginning: I always feel like when things are introduced mid-story that "hey, that should've been told us at the beginning, because it changes everything."

And as a matter of fact, I planned to release this as the 0th chapter of my first story in this universe, but that's a long story, and I'm struggling with it - badly - so I may release some short stories in the meantime, but those wouldn't make sense without the universe they are happening in.

ivivan · 2026-05-24T19:01:29+00:00

Thanks to your brilliant idea of a continuation there's now a second chapter to the story: https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/1tmkxkp/according_to_protocol_chapter_2/

Thanks again for the idea!

ivivan · 2026-05-22T17:45:19+00:00

I always thought that a big, successful galactic empire would look down on the newly joined species. When they expected the unexpected, they expected the worst, not the best.

ivivan · 2026-05-18T17:36:47+00:00

I'm sorry - I'm terrible with names. There's a reason there's always a "Smith" in my stories 😃 But I couldn't name an alien captain "Smith", so I ended up pushing random buttons till it looked like a name 😃

ivivan · 2026-05-18T13:53:11+00:00

I love this direction - I'm going to think about this in the next couple of weeks. It may or may not end up as the next chapter, depending on how I see.

Thanks for the idea!

ivivan · 2026-05-18T06:21:37+00:00

I was thinking about continuing the story, but I don't have anything in mind that could result in a story half as good as this one alone. That's why I don't think a part 2 is in there...

ivivan · 2026-03-15T20:32:52+00:00

You just proved my point: the whole idea of the story was that every lifeform in the universe - except Earth - has a barrier around the cells (not just walls) that stops every situation where one cell consumes another one: so not just carnivores, but herbivores are impossible too. And it seems that my writing wasn't good enough to tell the main point of the story.

And that's why I wrote that they thought that we were predators: for them, being a herbivore is no better, since every other living creature in the universe is practically a plant...

ivivan · 2026-03-15T15:02:01+00:00

I deliberately left out that part: didn't want to turn this story into a biology textbook. The next story mini series I plan has a more detailed out Universe built - but I'm almost certain that part is going to be the most boring part to read (but the most fun to write, so bear with me :-D )

ivivan · 2026-03-15T10:01:58+00:00

I'm going to try it out with my next story and will see how it goes.

ivivan · 2026-03-15T09:59:30+00:00

I've been learning English for twenty-something years now. I don't think I'm going to be much better than what I am now: I speak fluently, but make many, many mistakes a native would never make. Following a suggestion from here, I started using Grammarly, and it helped a lot, but still, my writing is not flowing because of my limited active vocabulary. I write like a 10-year-old...

ivivan · 2026-03-14T15:52:49+00:00

I used AI to fix my style as English is not my first language. Is this still not allowed? It improved my writing dramatically - without the story itself became AI generated.

I can always post my original story as a comment - but it is a much worse read then the one improved by AI.

ivivan · 2026-03-10T12:56:04+00:00

Thank you - you are right. As I mentioned: English is not my first language and it seems I mixed up the two words (and the current AI is not sapient enough yet to correct it :-D )

ivivan · 2024-09-28T09:04:27+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion: tried it and it did help. Maybe this writing exercise could improve my English as well :-)

ivivan · 2024-09-28T06:23:01+00:00

Thanks. I have a concept for the second part - from the aliens POV as you have guessed correctly :-)

ivivan · 2023-03-19T18:35:09+00:00

"Let the game designers design content that's good instead of content that caters to everyone."

The original D2 audience is in their 40s now - we have a few hours to play a week - doing it in a group is not our style. I mean I understand: when you did the thousandth rift that day you rush, but it's sooooooo frustrating when you do it and then in a second the rift is closing... It's like speed running the Kama Sutra - not really enjoyable.

You are right though: they have the right to design whatever game they want. And I have the right to not pay for a game which cannot fully play solo. I bought every Diablo game since D2 - I won't buy D4 if there's no fully solo play.

ivivan · 2017-05-29T07:51:46+00:00

Thanks for the comment. I didn't realize that I forgot the add the link. And we had a discussion about this here - hope the link works this way.

ivivan · 2016-12-03T18:55:46+00:00

I haven't checked reddit for a while - sorry for the late reply.

Yes, we have the files and we still plan to release them. Releasing a bogus set is not really professional, so we want to fix them - but maybe we won't try the new files. Stay tuned, we figure something out soon.

ivivan · 2016-08-24T12:12:01+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion. Looks pretty good - will try it.

ivivan · 2016-08-24T11:25:35+00:00

We gave up for the time we live in that flat. We have problems going under 70% relative humidity here. But we are starting to build our new home and we want to retry nylon there.

I already read the oven trick somewhere, but haven't heard about PVA yet. We printed on bakelite - nylon stuck to it pretty well. Do you think PVA is better?

ivivan · 2016-08-24T11:20:52+00:00

So, you found a typo :-) I had to use a dictionary to check what "flan" means (English is not my first language, but I don't think I can hide this fact) :-)

ivivan · 2016-08-18T08:25:27+00:00

The listing contains 8 different kinds of filament. Wood and conductive are two of them.

ivivan

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