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In a Galaxy far, far away....
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The Earth could no longer support human life, but thankfully an evacuation plan was set into place. A lottery taking into account profession, IQ and overall health. Millions of people
were saved but billions perished. A new human civilization has been born. Develop the new government system, a planet ecosystem and culture where one of the three presents a problem.
Your main character grapples with the reality of how s/he is a human survivor but that so many others died. Therefore, s/he sees it as her duty to do something worthwhile and that
means taking on the dictatorial government, hostile environment, or a distopian cultural system.
We are not alone in the universe. Leaving Earth to satellite human settlements in another solar system, has caused us to meet another intelligent life form (or more than one!). There is
a war, but not humans versus aliens. In the war humans and aliens, intermixed, fight each other as plants fight for the right to govern themselves and while older more established planets
fight to rule as hegemony. The humans who have allied with the alien government are the ones who want this change because there is power in it form them. Meanwhile, rebel aliens
who have never agreed with their government join with the humans of the poorer settlements who fight for independence.
Creating Aliens
Consider these Questions:
| What does your species call themselves? What do
humans call them? (There is more depth if they are
different.) |
Do they have a government? How is it
organized? Are there different factions? (Humans
have different countries religions for example.) |
| What does your species look like? Do they have the same senses as humans? Do they have and additional sense? What makes sense based on the context of their environment? Evolutionarily why would they have developed this way | What is their disposition?
Humans tend to crave for more: more knowledge,
possessions, constantly expanding outwards.
What are their motives? What are the different
dispositions within the species? Do they have
a religion? Or are they not as concerned with
having an understanding of after death etc? |
| What kind of technology do they
have? Is it more advanced than human
technology or less advanced? Were the space
explorers or did humans discover them when they
arrived at this habitable planet. |
How do they react to humans?
Take into account whether or not they have had
contact with other forms of alien life and how far
along they are technologically. Consider how
humans would react to aliens now, how humans may
have reacted 100 or 1,000 years ago. Perhaps
humans are one of many species they have encountered
or perhaps through ignorance they are seen as gods. |
Quotes
"For small
creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable
only through love." - Carl Sagan
"I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small." - Neil Armstrong
"There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this
distant image of our tiny world." - Carl Sagan
"Not just beautiful, though--the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing.
And they're watching me." - Haruki Muakami
"The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because
we don't have a space program it will serve us right!" - Larry Niven
"Man as gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and
secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed." - Stanislaw Lem
"Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns." - Carl Sagan
"The sky is the limit only for those who aren't afraid to fly." - Bob Bello
"Sooner or later, everybody dreams of other worlds." - J. Aleksandr Wootton
"I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small." - Neil Armstrong
"There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this
distant image of our tiny world." - Carl Sagan
"Not just beautiful, though--the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing.
And they're watching me." - Haruki Muakami
"The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because
we don't have a space program it will serve us right!" - Larry Niven
"Man as gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and
secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed." - Stanislaw Lem
"Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns." - Carl Sagan
"The sky is the limit only for those who aren't afraid to fly." - Bob Bello
"Sooner or later, everybody dreams of other worlds." - J. Aleksandr Wootton