I've always loved sci-fi but it wasn't until I watched Foundation and Dune that I began to feel a sense of scale of the size of a galaxy and its population.
When I talk about scale I mean the number of people in a civilization and the sheer size of the galaxy. A reminder that we only have just over 7 billion people on Earth, so a galactic civilization would probably have quadrillions. And the size of the galaxy has a diameter of 105,700 light years. But many sci-fi series fail to instill the feeling of size.
How can writers of books or directors of movies/tv shows instill that sense of size of a galactic civilization?
Here’s a list of some of the cultures and civilizations as well as the planets where they are and/were located in the Futymystic galaxy:
The Gamalori culture of the planet of Gamalor, that was destroyed in the year 8576. The Gamalori refugee children relocated to the planet of Nepturia, which was already home to the Ordovian culture from the Ordovia Civilization. While the two Gamalori Noble lady’s Xylia Moonlight And her sister Alsephina Starlight landed on the planet of Lyrionnan
The Sapphos semi tribal culture from the Ossirionus Civilization of the planet of Sapphirus, which was destroyed in the current year of 8587. The Sapphos refugees relocated to the planet of Nepturia. Where they built a settlement near that of the people from the Gamalori culture and the Ordovian culture.
The ancient but still somewhat thriving Laomerian culture from the Laomeria Civilization on the planet of Lyrionnan
The now extinct Archaic Khailian culture from the Khaila Civilization, That was originally founded on the long since destroyed planet of Earthstone and re founded on the also long since destroyed planet of Archaeiya. The only descendants of the Khailian culture are Mercia Hawkins, his family , relatives and some friends.
The now extinct Coiyashanique culture from the Coiyashan Civilization That was also founded and re founded long ago on the now non existent planets of Earthstone and Archaeiya. It’s unknown how many full blooded descendants of the Coiyashanique. culture remain. Only half blooded Coiyashanique descendants are known such as Mercia Hawkins and his family.
The desert dwelling Sharmeztec Culture from the Sharmincan desert Civilization which was also founded and re founded on the planets of Earthstone and Archaeiya, which are no longer there. The Sharmeztec culture was founded again on the planet of Lyrionnan in the new Sharmincan desert.
The desert dwelling Galilite culture from the Galilite desert Civilization originally founded On the planet of Archaeiya. Then re founded on the planet of Lyrionnan, when the Archaeian refugees arrived there in the year 5862.
Any thoughts and opinions on this list of cultures and civilizations from my books world called the Futymystic galaxy
Any thoughts and opinions would be most welcome
I’m addicted to this concept and have read two different authors interpretations of how this technology would be used.
the long earth - Terry Pratchett
Please take a second to look over the two summaries, thanks!
In this book series there are two main different weapons utilized by the advanced civilizations to end any other signs of intelligent life. The first one is a relativistic particle named Photoid because it has a similar structure to photons. It is a near massless projectile launched at a star at just under light speed which, in accordance with Einstein's theory of relativity, grants this Photoid enormous relativistic mass and is thus able to destroy any star it collides with which in turn also destroys the various planets, planetoids and other satellites, both natural and artificial, orbiting the star. [1]
The second weapon is what is called a lower dimensional strike in which the attacker sends a 2 dimensional square with no mass or physical properties. It can be observed visually and it has small innate gravity but no other ways of interacting with the universe. The way it attacks is simple but the book does nothing to explain how it works. After arriving at the target location the 2 dimensional square gravity increases and it starts to expand by its two axis, it is still without depth. When the square comes in contact with matter and light from the third dimension it folds it into two dimensions and this transformation is as expected not only life ending but it also ends how the natural laws behave. The expansion rate of the lower dimensional square is at light speed which means that there is no possible way of out running it. If you have detected the attack it is simply too late to do anything about it. This lower dimensional expansion is constant and never ending.
There are also two minor weapons used by the Trisolarians against humanity but both of them are entirely localized weapons and have different purposes. The first one is named a Sophon and it is a huge two dimensional supercomputer folded into three dimensions and has the same mass and size as a proton. Its purpose is to meddle in physics experiments to halt scientific development and basic understanding of physical reality. The sophons are also capable of communicating with humans.
The second minor weapon is what is called a Droplet. It is a metal object that the Trisolarians have created by manipulating the strong nuclear force to work on a molecular level instead of at a nuclear level. This makes the material the Droplets are made of to be bound together with the strong nuclear force rather than the electromagnetic force. This makes the material almost impossibly strong: the same
... keep reading on reddit ➡Hey guys, It's been over a year since I previously posted in this group about my Civilization series scenario/mod search & rescue project which is mostly looking at finding total conversion scenarios for classic Civ games that have been lost over the decades but also cataloging cool ones for more recent Civ games too. There's waaaay too much out there for one person to ever cover so I've focused/limited the search to Civ mods relating to some of my favourite scifi and fantasy movies/tv shows/games.
Over the last year I've posted many huge list updates due to all the great help I've received from old Civ fans out there across the various forums and social media groups. I've even been successfully peer pressured into adding a whole bunch of extra scifi & fantasy categories not originally in the list such as Final Fantasy, Warhammer, Warcraft, Fallout/Terminator/Mad Max like Apocalypse stuff, Elder Scrolls & Game of Thrones and I've found many cool Civ scenarios relating to them. Naturally all of the old categories from a year ago are still there like Mars Colonization, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, Command & Conquer, Red Alert, Dune, Master of Magic, Sid Meier's Colonization, Master of Orion, Doom, Babylon 5, Star Trek, Star Wars, Stargate, Lord of the Rings, and Heroes of Might & Magic too. The list is massive compared to a year ago and is around the 300 mark now! To see the full list of search categories and all the scenarios found and their download links check out my CivFanatics project thread below:
In many cases these scenarios were missing so I searched and worked with collectors to find and rescue them preserving them across multiple sites like CivFanatics, ModDB and Internet Archive. I'm currently finishing up my Civ2 part of this work which includes several hundred targeted scenarios as well as backup 'super collections' containing thousands of lost scenarios.
[https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/civ2-mge-tot-scenario-mod-preservation-project.671035/](https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/civ2-mge-tot-scenario-mod-preservation-project-log-231-processed-5-col
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Since using the audible app to search for anything is painful, I thought I'd ask for some help here.
I don't know how to describe the genre exactly but I'm looking a civilization building series that's not limited to small time spans.
A good example of previous series like this is the "We are Legion, We are Bob" series as well as the "Children of Time" series. I tried Foundation series but got pretty bored after the first book.
This genre fascinates me. Realizing that individuals don't matter in the larger scope of the story. It just hits me in the right spot.
Thank you in advance 🙂
If anyone could give any pointers that would be awesome!
For example, two civilizations with FTL travel encounter one another, where one somehow has yet to split the atom but the other had already cured cancer centuries ago.
I found this list of all of the books in Turkish on goodreads, but they're missing those 2 on the English version of the same list. Presumably, that means the last 2 haven't been translated into English yet but idk https://www.goodreads.com/series/80287-demokratik-uygarl-k-manifestosu
I wonder if Italy has ever been represented in the games apart from the Rome civ.
Even as the modern nation Italy, or maybe with historical ones as Florence or Venice or Kingdom of Sicily or else.
Thanks for the answers!
Do the Covenant Species play those games to understand Human history while having fun? What do the Covenant Species think of those games as well?
I'm a long time civilization player, but I played every second game, lol. So: 2, 4 and 6 now. Every game I played so far suffers from the same thing - when you snowballed enough you are just unstoppable, and there are really no drawbacks to having large empires. Large empire can disrupt, by using sheer military force, anyone getting close to almost any victory condition. It makes late game quite boring. You are either a superpower, or you barely have an influence on the world. You can restrict yourself and try to aim at specific victory condition of course, but most of the non-military layers of the game are quite underdeveloped and not as engaging.
The core issue is, I think, that currently the more is always the better, and that shouldn't be the case. It makes the game brainless at some levels. You should always try to struck the right balance in a changing environment, that would make game always engaging. I look at Crusader Kings 2/3, how keeping large empires together has its own challenges, and I think that Civilization series could really learn something from that.
I think that there should be some drawbacks to having too many cities. Like loyalty should be more difficult to keep up, and there should be more ways to try to destabilize overextended civilizations. There are like some traces of that, for example Rock Bands with proper promotions can lower loyalty in cities, but that's almost useless in practice right now. If I make religious civilization, I should have more ways of influencing the world by using religion, ways that should rival military power.
To be honest, I would really like to steal the concept of factions (in internal politics) from CK3 and implement them in Civilization game in some way. Factions that you could interact with in multiple ways, and other civilizations could interact with to try to destabilize you. It could be diplomatic influence, religious influence or culture influence. If you are religious civilization, converting other civilization to your religion should open to you new ways of influencing its internal politics. That way religion would get a lot of depth compered to what it offers now.
What do you think about that? Do you think that CK2/3 could be an inspiration in some ways for new Civ games, to refine them into better game systems, or would it destroy the spirit of the series? After playing these games side by side, I kind of have a perfect blend of both of them in my mind, and I really wish that someone
... keep reading on reddit ➡My friend recommended this to me but I couldn't find what I was looking for. He told me that it is on Netflix but I doubt it is even there. He said the other beings has like a Mathematical "accent" or the way they speak using numbers and they like despise them or something
I would like to learn about this, and I was wondering if there is a YouTube channel, video series, video etc. that gives the history of the west. Also is there a video series, channel, video etc for other parts of the world’s history?
Humankind just released at August 17 or 18 depending on your timezone and I want to see everyone's opinion about it. It's approach to 4X games is kind of interesting in my opinion.
More than 690,000 years ago on Earth, circa 694,074BCE, several spacecraft manage to undertake a daring mission, with some "latching on" to "Apocalyps", a large "civilization-ender" asteroid, whilst some flew alongside and beneath the killer asteroid, nearly matching its speed. The suicide mission was an amazing success after several nuclear explosive devices were detonated alongside "Apocalyps", thereby successfully altering its trajectory and the killer asteroid whizzed by Earth. Ultimately, scores and scores and scores of astronauts and technicians involved in the mission in space perished during the daring project of global salvation.
Had "Apocalyps" actually made impact in Africa - the most populous continent at that the time and humanity's main base of civilization (at that time) - over 8 "smart" garden cities would have been destroyed, along with 14 "smart" garden towns and 33 garden villages. For the last 100 years, humanity had managed to completely reduce its global footprint by harnessing state-of-the-art technologies and processes, thereby making sure that being "climate-conscious" did not hamper or stagnate technological advancement. Nuclear-powered spacecraft were also largely launched from Mars and other celestial bodies or from the orbit of Mars, thereby leaving Earth completely unharmed and making use of the lower escape velocities of Mars and other celestial bodies.
OTL Human "evolutionary" timeline:
https://www2.palomar.edu/anthro/homo2/images/modern_human_family_tree.gif
Hey guys, It's been over a year since I previously posted in this group about my retro Civilization series scenario/mod search & rescue project which is mostly looking at finding total conversion scenarios for classic Civ games that have been lost over the decades but also cataloging cool ones for more recent Civ games too. There's waaaay too much out there for one person to ever cover so I've focused/limited the search to Civ mods relating to some of my favourite scifi and fantasy movies/tv shows/games which naturally includes Master of Magic!
Over the last year I've posted many huge list updates due to all the great help I've received from old Civ fans out there across the various forums and social media groups. I've even been successfully peer pressured into adding a whole bunch of extra scifi & fantasy categories not originally in the list such as Final Fantasy, Warhammer, Warcraft, Fallout/Terminator/Mad Max like Apocalypse stuff, Elder Scrolls & Game of Thrones and I've found many cool Civ scenarios relating to them. Naturally all of the old categories from a year ago are still there like Mars Colonization, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, Command & Conquer, Red Alert, Dune, Master of Magic, Sid Meier's Colonization, Master of Orion, Doom, Babylon 5, Star Trek, Star Wars, Stargate, Lord of the Rings, and Heroes of Might & Magic too. The list is massive compared to a year ago and is around the 300 mark now! To see the full list of search categories and all the scenarios found and their download links check out my CivFanatics project thread below:
https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/scenario-hunt-mars-alphac-c-c-ra-dune-mom-col-moo-doom-b5-strek-swars-sgate-homm-more.657805/
In many cases these scenarios were missing so I searched and worked with collectors to find and rescue them preserving them across multiple sites like CivFanatics, ModDB and Internet Archive. I'm currently finishing up my Civ2 part of this work which includes several hundred targeted scenarios as well as backup 'super collections' containing thousands of lost scenarios.
https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/civ2-mge-tot-scenario-mod-preservation-project-log-231-processed-5-collections.671035/
As a bonus side project I also looked at cataloging web archive backups of long lost Civ2 websites. I'm sure many people here remember those good old days of browsing late 90s Geocities sites hunting for the next cool Civ2 scenario to try out. Most are long
... keep reading on reddit ➡Hey guys, It's been over a year since I previously posted in this group about my retro Civilization series scenario/mod search & rescue project which is mostly looking at finding total conversion scenarios for classic Civ games that have been lost over the decades but also cataloging cool ones for more recent Civ games too. There's waaaay too much out there for one person to ever cover so I've focused/limited the search to Civ mods relating to some of my favourite scifi, fantasy, colonial movies/tv shows/games which naturally includes Colonization!
Over the last year I've posted many huge list updates due to all the great help I've received from old Civ fans out there across the various forums and social media groups. I've even been successfully peer pressured into adding a whole bunch of extra scifi & fantasy categories not originally in the list such as Final Fantasy, Warhammer, Warcraft, Fallout/Terminator/Mad Max like Apocalypse stuff, Elder Scrolls & Game of Thrones and I've found many cool Civ scenarios relating to them. Naturally all of the old categories from a year ago are still there like Mars Colonization, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, Command & Conquer, Red Alert, Dune, Master of Magic, Sid Meier's Colonization, Master of Orion, Doom, Babylon 5, Star Trek, Star Wars, Stargate, Lord of the Rings, and Heroes of Might & Magic too. The list is massive compared to a year ago and is around the 300 mark now! To see the full list of search categories and all the scenarios found and their download links check out my CivFanatics project thread below:
https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/scenario-hunt-mars-alphac-c-c-ra-dune-mom-col-moo-doom-b5-strek-swars-sgate-homm-more.657805/
In many cases these scenarios were missing so I searched and worked with collectors to find and rescue them preserving them across multiple sites like CivFanatics, ModDB and Internet Archive. I'm currently finishing up my Civ2 part of this work which includes several hundred targeted scenarios as well as backup 'super collections' containing thousands of lost scenarios.
https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/civ2-mge-tot-scenario-mod-preservation-project-log-231-processed-5-collections.671035/
As a bonus side project I also looked at cataloging web archive backups of long lost Civ2 websites. I'm sure many people here remember those good old days of browsing late 90s Geocities sites hunting for the next cool Civ2 scenario to try out. Most are l
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