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shadowsong26) wrote2010-07-26 07:14 pm
shadowsong26) wrote2010-07-26 07:14 pm
some random worldbuilding
bsg-related, dealing with a new concept/world i'm playing with. because i clearly don't have enough fic on my plate already -_-;; input appreciated.
it mostly has to do with what became of the ~1000 people left behind on new caprica. (for the purposes of the exploration/messing around, i'm saying that the cylons didn't blow the place up on their way out.) i'm partly focusing on building their world, and partly building the 'first contact' between the new capricans and earth people, when one of them (re)discovers space travel. since i don't think any engineers/mechanics were left behind, it takes even the new capricans at least a century or so to rediscover the tech, and then a while to find earth. so both societies have had time to develop. i'm mostly interested in new caprican society, obvs. of course, another option is the reconnection doesn't happen until sometime into earth's future, when we find them. which might be more interesting?
with regard to new caprican society, after a century or two to set up, i think a lot of what i'm pondering will require several centuries of distance. (also, it involves headpeople. just because.) there's a family, the graces, who are sort of hermit/priest/mystic/weird people. they tend to have hallucinations/visitors/headpeople. overall, they're viewed with a fair amount of suspicion, but enough people are fascinated by/drawn to them that the family has survived, and their opinion, when they chose to share it, carries a <i>lot</i> of weight. things tend to happen around them. government structure has passed through several different phases, ranging from a colonial-esque democracy to varying dictatorships. i think they have a monarchy at the time of the reconnection. given the climate/setup of the planet, there's only one real nation/power center, with a couple of splinter states (like the graces' territory) that have their own governments, sort of like city-states in renaissance italy in our world. (with the main nation standing for...iono, whatever the most powerful state was. i should research that). i'm still working on the details of the primary royal family and the governments of the other states. any ideas for things i should include?
if the new capricans are the ones who make contact, when should they? present day, some point in history, near future? if we make contact, how far into the future should it be? to what extent have we found/decoded/translated any surviving colonial accounts? (i'm sure <i>someone</i> left an accurate record, to make sure their hard-learned lessons weren't forgotten.) any thoughts would be much appreciated! (i may just keep this as something to mess around with. or i may file the serial numbers off and make it a completely original story. iono. just brainstorming for now.)
it mostly has to do with what became of the ~1000 people left behind on new caprica. (for the purposes of the exploration/messing around, i'm saying that the cylons didn't blow the place up on their way out.) i'm partly focusing on building their world, and partly building the 'first contact' between the new capricans and earth people, when one of them (re)discovers space travel. since i don't think any engineers/mechanics were left behind, it takes even the new capricans at least a century or so to rediscover the tech, and then a while to find earth. so both societies have had time to develop. i'm mostly interested in new caprican society, obvs. of course, another option is the reconnection doesn't happen until sometime into earth's future, when we find them. which might be more interesting?
with regard to new caprican society, after a century or two to set up, i think a lot of what i'm pondering will require several centuries of distance. (also, it involves headpeople. just because.) there's a family, the graces, who are sort of hermit/priest/mystic/weird people. they tend to have hallucinations/visitors/headpeople. overall, they're viewed with a fair amount of suspicion, but enough people are fascinated by/drawn to them that the family has survived, and their opinion, when they chose to share it, carries a <i>lot</i> of weight. things tend to happen around them. government structure has passed through several different phases, ranging from a colonial-esque democracy to varying dictatorships. i think they have a monarchy at the time of the reconnection. given the climate/setup of the planet, there's only one real nation/power center, with a couple of splinter states (like the graces' territory) that have their own governments, sort of like city-states in renaissance italy in our world. (with the main nation standing for...iono, whatever the most powerful state was. i should research that). i'm still working on the details of the primary royal family and the governments of the other states. any ideas for things i should include?
if the new capricans are the ones who make contact, when should they? present day, some point in history, near future? if we make contact, how far into the future should it be? to what extent have we found/decoded/translated any surviving colonial accounts? (i'm sure <i>someone</i> left an accurate record, to make sure their hard-learned lessons weren't forgotten.) any thoughts would be much appreciated! (i may just keep this as something to mess around with. or i may file the serial numbers off and make it a completely original story. iono. just brainstorming for now.)