Magenta Monster

Within the Punk’s Universe there are really three different phases of space stuff at the moment with a possibility of more. The first is the Aquatic Apes or Elders who had an advanced Interplanetary Space programme that was just about to go Interstellar and possibly even managed it!

So that means we are looking at stories based on Mars, the Moon, asteroids, Europa and other sundry bodies I’ve decided might be habitable with advanced technology. The Martian one is underground in a cave system and is extinct which is why it is only discovered in “our” future once peopl actually set foot on the surface. The lunar colony is equally dead and was based in a large dark patch at the bottom of the moon on the dark side.

The asteroids are all going to be different with old experiments having been left to evolve and stuff (this is another story element that came out of a nightmare).

There is also the planet Nemises which is an extra solar planet which has been snagged by our sun and orbits erratically not in the planetary plain. This colony was a secret on one of the three empires and set up as a purity camp for their nazi-esk beliefs. It is an extant colony though has gone through some interesting bottle necks and has not large bodies or water and is dark for a lot of the time – evolution has occured regardless of their efforts to stop it!

It is thought to have only been a rumour by Aten as it was before he was born. It had had one terrestrial fly by since it was settled and more supplies were sent to the planet before the Empires collapsed.

And then beyond the Oort cloud at the edge of our system is the Celestial Spheres – this is a space modular space station that was being set up when the Empires collapsed in the first war. It was thought that it perished but it didn’t and in fact it continued to have contact with some Elders on the surface for quiet some time, including visits too and from the Earth – it is populated by a series of almost sub-species some of whom have wings for moving via rails from one sphere to the next.

There are seven spheres but there should have been a lot more but they never were built. There is the possibility that a cluster of ships headed off out on generation ships including cryo pods in an effort to defeat the plague epidemics but no one is really sure – it appears in the records as The Ark Initiative.

The second phase is humans (the hybred slaves created by the elders/aquatic apes who are now many peoples onto themselves) – stepping out with space stations and Promethius Industries backed by Aten. They are just starting to colonise the moon and Mars. The space programs have been hampered by the collapse of the US and a general collapse of governments brought about by engineered plagues and global warming, also there was a spat of terrorism that targeted the space programmes.

Our Luna and Martian colonies end up fighting for survival on their own. The lunar one is wiped out due to hostile internal action or sabotage. The Prometheus Plateform ends up with a group of stranded people on it during the first aggression, drug, plague out break. It manages to boot strap itself with asteroids but it was touch and go.

They manage to keep contact with the surface which is rapidly flooding and/or having nasty druggy zombies resulting in everyone living on seasteds, some in cluster formation set up by the UN and some are businesses like cruise ships and have internal cultures including slave labour.

But with data from hidden archeological sites on Earth and feed back from the abandoned colonies as well as signals and communication with the celestial spheres they manage to get the space travel happening again and they frog hope across the solar system.

It’s all going a bit slowely with an asteroid at a time until they manage to put the optronic super computer together along with all the glass memory discs they have found – combined with the meat wet-ware computers and nanotech and our own computing/electronics and interfaces between the two, plus exo-skeletons and cyborgs and upload – there is a bit of a singularity including AI and planets becoming part of the computer network etc…

The third phase is the Punk now having the tech and know how and life span to head out beyond the solar system.

So roughly the human/us + aquatic apes space travel phases work like this:

1) Interplanetary – between the planets of our solar system

2) Interstellar – between the stars of our galaxy

3) Intergalactic – between galaxies in our cluster

4) Intercluster/Intersupercluster – between clusters and super clusters

5) Interversial (yes I’ve made 4 and 5 up – call them sarahisms) – between universes

There is also an issue of different AIs (artificial intellegence or robots – computers becoming sentient) as there are several techs from optronics (glass) to wetware (meat) to electronics to people themselves being elements of the calculating machine. This also leads on to the idea of there also being upload universes/worlds to explore and The Archive though only full of memories may well have been an accidental AI before the Ocean Empires collapsed ie the Tower of Babel.

And having gotten that all typed up and out of my head and therefore more concrete I should get back to writing the damn stories!

Posted: Sunday, November 16th, 2014 @ 7:09 pm
Categories: Inspiration, The Punks World.
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