Worlds under genre: "Hard Science"

Paradigm

Someone once told me that we tell only the stories that are memorable, the stories that have novel experiences and interesting conclusions. It wasn't until much later in my life that I understood what that stranger meant. We may consider life mundane...

Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, High Magic Hard Science Political

Era'guya

What if you knew how things came to be? What if dragons, gods and men are lost toys dropped in a box by a fickle superpower? What if the dirt was magic? What if you were dropped in this world with no context and no way home? Era'guya is a world wh...

Adult 18+ Alternative History Ancient Atompunk Biopunk

Allwanduir

Allwanduir is a small planet beyond the limits of the observable Universe. It is part of a solar system consisting of only three planets, of which one is almost a twin to Allwanduir, and the second one a gas giant. They orbit a small star. The pla...

Exploration Hard Science Science Fantasy Science Fiction Science Fiction, Modern

Edge of Infinity

< =============================== > Encrypted Transmission Received < =============================== > [spoiler]"Welcome to the Forgotten Library, traveller. I am The Curator, and you have entered my domain. A...

Fantasy Hard Magic Hard Science Science Fantasy Science Fiction

Long War

Contrary to humanity's expectations, neither leaving Earth nor expanding throught the Galaxy could change human nature. Exodus from the humanity's cradle, made in haste and in dramatic situation created problems that humanity is yet to solve...

Dystopia Hard Science Political Science Fiction Space Opera

Karêrmian: El Reinicio

"Karêrmian: El Reinicio" es un juego de rol de temática Fantasía-Científica (fantasía explicada bajo un marco de ciencia-ficción) y con un sistema de reglas propio. Lleva en desarrollo desde 2008/2009 y aun continúa.

Biopunk Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic

Theta Rho

A sector of the Stars Without Number universe from the Sandbox Crew Podcast.

Cyberpunk Exploration Hard Science Political Science Fiction

Opposition: Mars

They say Mars is the graveyard of ambitions. Partially terraformed and populated largely by tribes of genetically modified colonists, one might wonder why the nations of Earth have any interest in a hostile planet like Mars. For a diverse group of No...

Hard Science Military Political Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction

WoD: After the Fall

The fifth possibly final fall of man, the one prophesied by gods and by billions of mortal men and best has come and gone. Worlds destroyed or left in ruin, inter races wiped out or on the brink of extinction. Yet we have recovered. On the ruins...

Cyberpunk Hard Magic Hard Science Post-modern Science Fantasy

Maanra Theta

The year is 3200. Humanity is scattered like dust among the stars. The broken relics of a former day litter the sky and men and women struggle to rebuild the glory of humanity’s lost golden age. For almost a thousand years humanity had expande...

Hard Science Modern Science Fiction Science Fiction, Modern

Avalon 2118

[quote]"War, war never changes."[/quote] The year is 2118, a hundred years have past since the beginning of the of the end. The year 2018 a sudden and utterly unexpected change in the Golf Stream triggered a massive change in the environment o...

Atompunk Hard Science Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction

Blue Way

Blue Way, our first laser highway, is complete and more, to other stars, are in construction. We made it far into to the darkness, but we are still only dipping our toes in the deep cosmic ocean and who knows, what lurks in the depths.

Exploration Hard Science Science Fiction Speculative

White Reach

Overview In the distant future of the 31st century mankind has gone to the stars, and taken war with them. Four centuries ago, the pinnacle of civilization was said to exist in the Star League. Technology the like of which has not been se...

Hard Science Mecha Military Political Science Fiction

Emergence

The mysteries of space unfold to the citizens of the Galactic Planet Federation. Nearly 200 years ago, humankind discovered the great power of warp travel. With this, they set out upon the stars to explore the last great frontier. Corporations a...

Hard Science Science Fiction Space Opera

Cicadea Cycle

[container:front-quote][quote]Herman Melville, in Moby Dick, once spoke for wanderers in all epochs when he said "I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote."... Maybe we are not ready, but those other worlds are filled with unt...

Biopunk Hard Science Science Fiction Solarpunk Space Opera

The Oasisian Systems

On Oasisa, the world was in chaos. Entities with no rational explanation haunted the people of the world. Then a refugee camp surviving from a massacre came together under the Protector. This nation was small, and attempted to market baskets along wi...

Hard Science Science Fiction

Schweppes Agrum

Motivation : Creative Outlet, Self-Improvement Genre : Fantasy Scale : Solar System Mood : Bright / Neutral Theme : Everything Has A Price / Comming Of Age / Circle Of Life Conflict : In order to reach peace the civilization kick their gods out...

Fantasy Fantasy, Urban Hard Science Political Solarpunk

Sol

Inspired by shows such as The Expanse (SyFy) and Altered Carbon (netflix). A series of technological breakthroughs led to humanity settling on Mars in 2030, and thus finally becoming a multiplanet species. Over the next three generations Mars woul...

Hard Science Political Science Fiction Science Fiction, Modern Space Opera

Hydria

High Medieval, Age of Exploration meets hard science fiction in an unholy marriage of flying pirate ships, aliens and wondrous relics of unimaginable beauty and technology. In everyday life, most inhabitants live in a world which...

Exploration Flintlock Hard Science Science Fantasy

PARROTverse

The PARROTverse is what may become of this world. Not what will become, but what may become. The PARROTverse is set in a possible future, where space travel and smuggling are rampant and often combined. Many political conflicts over hundreds of ye...

Hard Science Modern Political Science Fantasy Space Opera

Diaspora

The Diaspora is an exploration of humanity’s future within the local stellar group. The various projects set within the universe explore humanity’s path to the stars and their interactions with the oth...

Exploration Hard Science Informational Science Fiction, Modern Speculative

Tales of the void

Hard Science Mecha Science Fiction, Modern

Transcendence

Testing

Hard Science Political Science Fiction

FFGXV

A mishmash of many different sci-fi and fantasy universes gathered as one. Over a million inhabited planets, tens of thousands of sectors, 4 quadrants, 1 empire. A single empire tries to maintain its grasp on a galaxy full of wildly different species...

Hard Science Science Fantasy Science Fiction Superheroic

Radical Futurism

In 1999 the millennium bug got everyone from the white house to the Kremlin scared so the nations decided to digitally back up their collective knowledge into a super computer in Antarctica. When the apocalypse didn't happen they felt the scare was...

Adult 18+ Fanfiction Hard Science Post Apocalyptic Solarpunk

S.A.V.E.

Cyberpunk Hard Science Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction Speculative

TEST WORLD

to test features and try to break Dimitris's work (Sorry pal, it's for your own good :D ) ----- Please create a note with the description of the bug and how it happened if you can. Something like: I had an article crash with error 500....

Adult 18+ Alternative History Ancient Atompunk Biopunk

Valkura

Imagine a world beyond the confines of our solar system. A world we thought we knew, but could never have imagined what actually was! This place, full of rich histories, past atrocities, and eccentric peoples is still recovering from a worldwide nucl...

Hard Science Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction, Modern Solarpunk

Gala Supercluster

Cyberpunk Hard Science Military Science Fantasy Space Opera

Pepper Land

Hard Science Military Modern Political

Aren

Aren is an Earth-like world at the cusp of an ideological conflict. Similar to Earth's own history in the 1930s, the old monarchical order is falling apart. Although the ancient empires and their monarchs control more than half the surface of the pla...

Alternative History Hard Science Modern

Davel

Exploration Hard Science Science Fiction Science Fiction, Modern Speculative

The Third Millennium

It has been 453 solar cycles since The Breach / Severance Day, the day earth was cut-off from the rest of the universe as well as the last day of @[The System War](militaryConflict:887f81a5-38bf-4f54-b...

Cyberpunk Hard Science Science Fiction Solarpunk Speculative

Twinsverse [tbd]

Some fantasy requires a whole new world - and sometimes, fantasy is just what lies out of sight, beyond our star and the iron curtain pulled tight by hard-lined gods. Twins Life and Death, they regulate where celestial force meets Earth, monitoring t...

Alternative History Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic Hard Science

A golden land of opportunity and adventure

This will be the setting for a Transhuman Space campaign.

Hard Science Neo Noir Science Fiction

Orphaned Worlds

Humanity climbed to transcendent heights at some point in the past, but some millennia ago paradise fell. Some say the gods' magic still exists, but the gods stopped sharing it with humanity. Stripped of godlike powers to animate metal slaves, to se...

Hard Science Mecha Post Apocalyptic Science Fantasy Science Fiction

Sector Lyonesse Delta

Cyberpunk Exploration Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Urban Hard Science

The Seas of Steel

The Seas of Steel. An inhospitable, global ocean, surrounding the continent of Valemar. Few can navigate the windy sea, with its forbidding currents and deadly inhabitants. But some don't have a choice. Some must navig...

Fantasy Hard Magic Hard Science Medieval

Imou

The world of Imou primarily consists of two continents: Alomund, the birthplace of civilization, now a continent divided Equan, the new land, now threatened by their own creation. Mana is the driving force of this world, but it may be causi...

Hard Magic Hard Science Science Fiction

Fane

Fane is a world that was long at one war or another. Over the last century and a half, however, there has been nearly uninterrupted peace. This period began in the year 1512 WI when the entire population of Rilas capital of Neglos mysteriously vanish...

Clockpunk Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic Flintlock Hard Science

World Anvil Themes

This world hosts all the Themes available to Guild members and Freemen in World Anvil

Afrofuturism Dieselpunk Fantasy, Urban Hard Science Mecha

The Land of the Drab Dragoon

13 years before anyone can remember, I wrote a bunch of nonsense on a page. This nonsense was so explosively evocative that anyone who recalled its scent doubled over, anyone who could recall its length had their joints instinctually lock, and anyone...

Alternative History Ancient Atompunk Biopunk Clockpunk

Seeds of Success

Sector Athena Epsilon. Endless worlds await intrepid explorers, cunning mercenaries, leatherneck asteroid miners, and merchant princes. Each with their own set of idiosyncratic qualities, and a fair share of dangers and profit alike. Seeds of Suc...

Exploration Hard Science Military Political Science Fiction

Therada

Therada is a diverse planet similar in size to earth. And in association with such a similar size, the planet has a similar biomes ranging from the frigid, uninhabitable poles to the blazing deserts steeped in equator sun to ocean teeming w...

Fantasy, High Magic Hard Science Medieval

Sci fi awesome

It is a far flung future. Three factions fight for control of the local galactic space. The Coalition of Terrans, The Sons of Iron and the so called Dark Alliance. Amongst these groups smaller alliances and conflicts arise, as is often the case....

Hard Science Science Fantasy Science Fiction Science Fiction, Modern

Ashtarte

Welcome to the world of Ashtarte, a possible Earth one billion years in the future. But this is not a traditional world of spaceships, teleportation, and laser rifles. You see, at some point between today and then, a number of hyper ad...

Exploration Hard Magic Hard Science Science Fantasy Weird

Arcverse

The Arcverse is a fictional version of our own universe heavily based in scientific fact and plausible speculation. The canonical history of the Arcverse stretches from the Big Bang that began the universe to the final extra-universal migration of al...

Exploration Hard Science Science Fiction Space Opera Speculative

The Element

It's the year 3000. The turn of the century. Humanity has taken its first steps into a wider galaxy, and found they were not alone in their sapience. Fast, efficient space travel is only possible with the help of a rare element, known as @[Flectetium...

Exploration Hard Science Science Fiction

Andalusada

As far as the world is concerned, today is 22 Nisan 5690, the final day of Passover. Today is 20 April 1930, Easter Sunday. Today is 22 Dhu'l-Qi'dah 1348, a day for Muslims to ignore the ulama, bring dessert to someone else's holiday, and get drunk....

Alternative History Dieselpunk Hard Science Political Speculative

The Clear Belt

[quote]Every End is a Beginning, and our Beginning was one of war...|Anonymous[/quote] The World Reborn [p]Rebuilding[/p] [p]It's been well over a...

Adult 18+ Hard Science Post Apocalyptic Solarpunk Speculative

Apogee

Earth is divided, with the great powers of humanity's homeworld leveraging their power across the solar system. Mars is the site of numerous proxy wars waged by city-states, while the Jovian moons and the network of space stations in the asteroid bel...

Hard Science Military Science Fiction Space Opera

Okanverse

Three thousand years have passed since Transhumanity was abducted from the known Universe, and cast into the the Bulk. The Local Habitable Nexus is a cluster of universes situated in a fortunate region of hyperspace that can support familiar forms...

Cyberpunk Hard Magic Hard Science Science Fiction Space Opera

The Beginnings of a Space Marine RPG

This is the start of what will hopefully become a Sci-Fi video game. There are no kinds of magic in this world, but I do feature a range of high technology levels, mostly in the form of weapons. It starts in the year 2234

Hard Science Military Science Fiction

"Project Hyperion"

Exploration Hard Science Science Fiction Speculative

The Dreamscape

"The Dreamscape" is a binary world containing two worlds within it: the first is the Conscious Self -- in essence, a scifi edition of our universe containing at least partially realistic physics -- an...

Alternative History Hard Science Science Fantasy Surreal

Gramen Sector

The First Age of Man was when they learned to build their great cities on their home world "Earth". The Second Age was when Man tamed their planet and began a spectacular rate of discovery and technological advancement. The Third Age saw Man be...

Exploration Hard Science Science Fiction

Eternity is not Immortal

Nothing is truly immortal, save that which we leave behind us, written into the sands of time. Eventually the winds pick up those sands and blow them around the world, sometimes they will be obliterated by the footsteps of later and greater beings, b...

Dystopia Hard Science Mecha Military Political

The Dust and Cold (Themis)

The basic setting is that some humans travels to a distant star system on a fleet of colonial ships. They planned to establish colonies on this habitable desert planet named Themis. But something happened which I'm still slightly undecided on which c...

Comedy Exploration Hard Science Science Fiction Western

The DRUniverse

What do you get when you cross George Miller cosplayers, a low fantasy kingdom, god knows how many mercenaries and a bandit problem? Apparently this. The DRUniverse is a strange multimedia shared universe, set in a post-apocalyptic/low fantasy world...

Fantasy, Low Magic Hard Science Post Apocalyptic Science Fantasy

Earth

This is the Earth in the year 2034 AD. This world was created for the Tale Foundry competition.

Hard Science Horror Science Fiction, Modern Supernatural

The Colossuss Galaxy

Far from the limits of our universe, far from all things you could think about, and far away in the massive black thing that space is, theres a spot, called the Colossuss Galaxy, in which races, exotic planets and even dark obscure things happen dail...

Hard Science Military Political Science Fiction, Modern Space Opera

Gaius

SENTENCE: Prelude wants to retrieve the time sword from the temple of time before the next planer alignment in order to bring the Society for the Advancement of Human Biology into the present day...

Biopunk Fantasy Hard Magic Hard Science MagiPunk

Technic 233

A nuclear war causes fallout and mutated humans with supernatural abilities. Humanity moves into seven huge cities across the globe to escape the nuclear debris and fallout. Each city has three levels.The Under-City, Mid-City, and Upper-City. The gov...

Cyberpunk Dystopia Hard Science Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction

Bartugk

Die Welt entstanden aus der Gnade der Götter Bartugk ist eine Welt, die von den Göttern geformt wurde - manchmal im Guten und manchmal im Schlechten. Viele Kreaturen bewachen wertvolle Schätze, andere sind geschaffen um der Menschhei...

Fantasy, Low Magic Hard Science Post Apocalyptic Science Fantasy

Alkovansk Pacific Region

Alternative History Hard Science Modern Political Speculative

Oaara

Oaara the powerful, Oaara the ancient, Oaara the beautiful, Oaara the mystic, Oaara the eternal. Poem from the book of Qhorrtbjok. Oaara is a huge multiverse, with over a quadrillion universes inside of it. Each one of...

Hard Science Informational Science Fiction Science Fiction, Modern

Project Daedalus

A near(ish)-future hard sci-fi To die is human. It is part of the experience of all humans, no matter what race, religion, or nationality, to confront our own mortality. So what does that make those who transcend our biological and Hayflick limits...

Alternative History Cyberpunk Hard Science Science Fiction Space Opera

Arunes

Arunes is one of many worlds connected to ours through a network of rifts discovered by the Norsemen of old and referred to as Yggdrasil. In later years, after human corporations colonized it and urbanized many regions with sprawling megacities, m...

Cyberpunk Fantasy Hard Science Science Fiction

Life

Life is a mid- to late Renaissance based fantasy world hinging on principles of hard science, science magic, and hints of steampunk, dark fantasy, and dystopian speculation. With humans far past their prime, the volatile event that led...

Fantasy Hard Science Medieval Science Fantasy

Greis

Greis is home to a powerful population of elemental beings, having incredibly varied environments in each nation contributing to this. These beings have existed since the beginning of time, offering balance in their universe by simply existing, as wi...

Biopunk Exploration Fantasy, Dark Hard Science Political

Blade Academy

A blend of conventional fantasy tropes and science set in the modern day with hints of mythology creates Blade Academy, a world built on alternate history. Magic, while awe-inspiring, is still grounded in science and reason, and the characters are ab...

Alternative History Hard Science Historical Science Fiction, Modern Urban

Whirl of Yurl

Whirl of Yurl is a science fiction story set in the bizarre world of Gannen. Humans, Junum, and countless other creatures call it their home. The land is vast and varied, in both geology and culture. Billions of intelligent lifeforms have lived and d...

Exploration Hard Science Science Fantasy Surreal

Ramiss

It is a tidally locked planet.

Ancient Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic

Treiach

A lush, earthlike planet sitting smack dab in the goldilocks belt of their solar system. With a mass almost three times that of earth, and a radius of almost 9000km, one will find there a lot of planet to explore. However, almost 80% of the surface i...

Biopunk Clockpunk Dieselpunk Exploration Flintlock

Kikandria

Welcome to Kikandria! We are working diligently to bring you the best possible description of this world, so please hang in there and stay tuned for a fantastic adventure! In the meantime join our roleplay dedicated Discord! We promise you will be...

Alternative History Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Fantasy, Romantic

Eureka!

Humans' relationship with technology has been a long-explored concept, but one that never ceased to fascinate me. The majority of media I watched and read as a kid focused on the relationship between people and artificial intelligence, which was inte...

Biopunk Cyberpunk Hard Science Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction

Ishtar

Welcome to the year 2414 AD (314 AE). After centuries of scientific discovery and thousands of lost pioneers, our new home of Ishtar has started to grow into the mold we set 304 years ago. Ever since our exodus, the survival of Terran humanity had be...

Cyberpunk Hard Science Science Fiction

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Cyberpunk Hard Science Military Science Fiction, Modern Sword & Sorcery

Юна

[p]Юна. Всего лишь один мир среди многих. Планета, ничем особо не примечательная: пара континентов, синие моря, зеленые луга, высокие горы, тянущиеся к далеким звездам. Множество населяющих всю эту прелесть существ и народов. История это...

Fantasy, High Magic Hard Magic Hard Science Medieval Science Fantasy

The Simulation Hypothesis

If we do not survive to the posthuman stage, to Aetherium, then we are the reality. We achieved Aetherium. If we do not run full universe simulations, the Final Simulacrum, then we are reality. We ran the Final Simulacrum. If we fulfill...

Exploration Hard Science Science Fiction Space Opera

Eclipse Phase-Strand of Fates

Eclipse Phase est un jeu de rôle de "hard science" sur la transhumanité dans mon monde post-apocalyptique de conspiration et d'horreur. L'humanité est augmentée, améliorée, mais elle n'en ait pas moins divisée et au bord de l'extinction. La techno...

Exploration Hard Science Horror Post Apocalyptic

Der große Sprung

Die Menschheit hat den Schoss der Erde verlassen und das Sonnensystem besiedelt. Moderne Raumfahrt und Technologie haben eine solare Zivilisation möglich gemacht. Erde und Mars sind die beiden wichtigsten Welten -und Kontrahenten- geworden. Mehr und...

Hard Science Science Fiction Speculative

The Knight & The Faun

The Knight & The Faun is a delve into a possible future for Earth and all of its inhabitants... on the surface. But deep in the story's core, amidst philosophical ventures and major events within the ever-changing world, it is a grand introspection...

Dystopia Fantasy, Low Magic Hard Science Post-modern Science Fantasy

Serophin

The futuristic world of Serophen. Is vast and diverse with meny planets to explore. The antagonist of this story are the hellminds and there are hundreds of them killing one only destroys a sext of sero warriors but the seros hive mind works like mu...

Alternative History Hard Science Science Fantasy Science Fiction

Lusus Naturae

Far in the future, a three-headed war is tearing apart our galaxy. In one corner lies the Hearth of Sumolus, a benevolent military junta that is welcoming to most of the galaxy's races. Opposing them directly is the Separatist Toreni Federal...

Cyberpunk Dieselpunk Hard Magic Hard Science Science Fantasy

Tenebrosus

This world is an attempt to create a thoughtful, well developed medieval fantasy world, with three clear points of distinction from our own. Each aspect of Tenebrosus is intended to be as plausible as possible, given the presence of those points of...

Exploration Hard Magic Hard Science Medieval Science Fantasy

New lich home

The portal ends in a blue and purple forest, a forest where the bark seems to imitate a face. In between the trees on the branches hang many tiny lanterns, the forest of memories. The small lich wanders through the forest in awe looking here and ther...

Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Fantasy, Low Magic

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Hard Science Science Fiction

name? nah I got nothin

Your run of the mill dystopian world, one run entirely by an eternally 17 year old boy. This boy is known by most as simply, K. He was born into a world where science reigned supreme, and was lucky enough to be born to a family of important scient...

Dystopia Hard Science Science Fantasy Science Fiction Supernatural

What They Left Behind

A boy awakens aboard a floating piece of debris, with little knowledge of how he got there, or what even happened. His name is Zedra, and all he remembers of his past life are these words; Come find me Whoever said them is gone; Wherever...

Hard Science Science Fiction

Vintergatan

Detta är en påbyggelse på den svenska science-fiction serien Vintergatan skapad av Petter Bragée. Jag är ett stort fan av serien och jag behövde en plats att sortera allt mitt headcanon. Detta är bra läsning för både gamla och nya fans, och om...

Fanfiction Hard Science Science Fiction Space Opera Young Adult (YA)

Amyl

Spanning tens of thousands of (terrestrial) years, Amyl features big events like the creation of the God Stations; the inception of the Acrylian Empire - a interstellar empire that stood for generations; the Acrylian-Kashythiann War; the ascendancy o...

Alternative History Hard Science Military Political Science Fiction

The Nations of Mankind

Cyberpunk Hard Science Science Fiction Solarpunk

Khronus

Deep within the Delta Core lies the run-down backwater planet by the name of Khronus. Khronus holds three capital cities, Ta'ar, by far the most dangerous city of them all, hosting gladiator fights and being the home of the notorious Zircon, Carona,...

Alternative History Cyberpunk Exploration Fantasy, Low Magic Hard Science

Xeno-IV

Cyber-Organic Planet Originally Roamed the Jarowins. They were a smart race constantly creating and building. They built a Cyber Race, they Called them Exo's. Together as Man and Machine they built together for thousands of years until a plague. The...

Cyberpunk Exploration Hard Science Military Political

Worlds of Andriod

Cyberpunk Hard Science Science Fiction Urban

Zeltariun

The world of Zeltarium is a vast, ancient, and deadly. The few million people who call this world their home live one of three way. Some live nomadic lives, moving from place to place to keep safe from the Etherians, creatures from the Void who h...

Adult 18+ Fantasy, Dark Hard Science Post Apocalyptic Steampunk

placheloder name

two binary planets, orbiting around eachother. Not near enough for living Creatures and bacteria to ber transfered naturally between the planets, but near enough for that the dominant species of each planet is strongly infuenced by the other planet,...

Hard Science Science Fiction

Superheroes - World One

(I developed this world when I was fourteen. I figured I start with this to practice with this website. Here we go). Torrik was a young boy who didn't really socialize much. He wasn't someone well accepted by his schools, and so he noticed as he ma...

Alternative History Hard Science Modern Science Fantasy Science Fiction

jeffs world

A world full of jeffs

Adult 18+ Ancient Child Safe Fairy tale Hard Science