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If you could, what sci-fi / fantasy universe would you live in?
hawkwing43
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Let's just say you had not choice to stay here now. Why/ Well just say the earth is over run with Aliens, and we are the main choice for their food. So, you are given an escape plan for you and everyone you know, where to do go to? Of course you will be given a starter pack for you and everyone with you, so you can have a fair chance in your new life.
Oh and BTW, you might be changed based on what you picked for your new home too.
Oh and BTW, you might be changed based on what you picked for your new home too.
If you could, what sci-fi / fantasy universe would you live in? 65 votes
Star Wars Universe
9%
6 votes
Game of Thrones Universe
3%
2 votes
Star Trek Universe
64%
42 votes
Mass Effect Universe
6%
4 votes
Hobbit/ LOTR Universe
1%
1 vote
Harry Potter Universe
1%
1 vote
DC Universe
4%
3 votes
Marvel Universe
3%
2 votes
Transformers Universe
0%
Firefly Universe
6%
4 votes
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For example, the Mass Effect has an apocalyptic war across all inhabited worlds AND an apocalyptic ending to that war regardless of which ending you choose. (While admittedly I personally might be interested in trying out a Synthesis universe IF provided enough information on what exactly the fusion with synthetic life would entail for me as far as the changes to body and mind to make an informed decision, the fact that those already IN the universe did not get to consent to that ending is a problem for me.)
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And besides which, even if I have to live through the reaper war, I'll know that Space Jesus will stop them.
For the fantasy settings, who would pick Game of Thrones? Like even if you hate plumbing and electricity LotR just seems like a better medieval sort of world to live in.
Post war mass effect (think the new Andromeda mass effect) sounds cool, space colonization and exploration not limited by starfleet's laws and directives.
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More serious answer: Stargate, Star Trek or Star Wars. Not sure which one of those. MAYBE StarCraft, depending on what happens post-LotV and whether we get to choose what era we live in.
Infinite possibilities have implications that could not be completely understood if you turned this entire universe into a giant supercomputer.
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Postscarcity FTW.
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Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though.
JJ Trek The Kelvin Timeline is just Trek and it's fully canon... get over it. But I still prefer TAR.
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Quite frankly for all we know we're already living in Stargate. Unless you've got top secret clearance with the Air Force or UN you wouldn't remotely be allowed to know about the program.
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The rest I am familiar with. Many of those are hell for the average person to live in. A few examples:
Star Wars - WOOHOO! Jedi! Lightsabers! However, constant, constant war that devastates the entire galaxy as different governments in turn dominate it, and rising powers seeking to supplant them. Nothing but a huge, ongoing cycle of war. But hey, you chose a universe named Star WARS, right?
Game of Thrones / A Song of Ice & Fire - Primitive medicine, Dark Age level of science and technology, and constant warfare where the common folk are murdered, slaughtered, massacred, TRIBBLE, robbed... In no particular order. All while the lords and their "sers" lay waste to the countryside for their own petty, personal goals.
Any Comic Book / Super Hero Universe - If you are going to have Super Heroes, there are going to be Super Villains. These settings are regularly laid to waste since they act as the battleground for these characters. F-That.
Star Trek, OTOH, despite the occasional cycle of wars and threats, is the safest place to live out of them all. Unlike Star Wars, while wars take place still, the entire galaxy is not at war. Science and Medicine is ridiculously good. Life in the Federation is very safe and if you want adventure and purpose, Starfleet is the place to go to. Humanity is not butchering itself anymore. Resources are plenty. It's not a contest at all.
Hey OP, you forgot to add the Warhammer 40k universe!
Hell yeah, I would join the Tau.
Well if you must you must, but really Warhammer? I might as well say W.O.W. too lol
Actually, depending on where in the 'verse you live, 40k wouldn't be too bad. The Ciaphas Cain novels indicate that on a lot of the Imperium's less-populated worlds (i.e. not hive-worlds with hundreds of billions of citizens, not forge worlds polluted beyond reason, not death worlds where you're stuck in the Iron Age), people seem to have a standard of living comparable to the better parts of modern-day Earth, excepting that you're living in an oppressive ultra-bureaucratic theocracy at the national government level.
That's assuming the planet doesn't get attacked by xenos nasties or Chaos, of course.
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In all honesty the Star Trek Universe is too populated. You can't go anywhere without one species or civilization or another being right next door. Every quadrant has an empire of some kind, and a good number of them are outright villainous. You would always either be held to certain laws or rules, or under constant attack by bad guys. You would never be truly free.
Fair point.
*makes a mental note to get top top secret clearance with the USAF and/or UN*
Infinite possibilities have implications that could not be completely understood if you turned this entire universe into a giant supercomputer.
By the 24th century the galaxy does tend to feel like a small world in some areas, though I do think there are certain areas that are quieter. I think it might still be possible, at least, to enjoy a good balance between freedom and safety on certain independent colony worlds. I don't know that all of the colonies are on the border with an aggressive empire.
But have you considered the 23rd century by any chance? There are definitely a lot of areas back then that were isolated and weren't firmly under the thumb of any government. We also see a lot more in the way of freebooters and opportunists during that timeframe, who don't really seem to be beholden to anybody. In a lot of ways, this is due to TOS' roots as a "Western in space." Would you change your mind if the Star Trek option were specifically during the five-year mission?
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Well, basically, you'd be trading replicators and holodecks for what I would consider to be a less restrictive environment. You'd still keep cheap power and a level of health care that cannot be achieved in the 21st century.
Food is somewhat more of a concern since there are no replicators...remember that part of the plot of "The Trouble With Tribbles" (maybe you saw it as DS9's "Trials and Tribble-ations"?) is the threat that the Klingons could either cause a major crop failure on a colony world or outright kill the colonists by poisoning the grain they had to have, and thus seize control of that world. This is not as great of a risk for colonies that have been settled longer, and the show does imply that the Federation as a whole does not have poverty/starvation problems, though food security is something you'd probably want to consider in your choice of homeworlds if you did go to the 23rd century.
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