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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

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

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

"Project Hyperion"

Exploration Hard Science Science Fiction Speculative

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2073 Haze

In the not so faraway future, the world as we know has died, replaced by an uncanny replica - the gears are showing, the wires are exposed, and yet so much is still hidden. Technology has skyrocketed. The middle class is all but gone. Crime isn't a c...

Alternative History Cyberpunk Hard Science Mecha Political

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gala Supercluster

Cyberpunk Hard Science Military Science Fantasy Space Opera

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

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

Imrai

Magic comes at a cost. After the First discovered the initial seams of otherworldly power, they very quickly began to utilize it in every aspect of their lives. They didn't learn of the cost until too late, after their entire societal structure had...

Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic Hard Science Science Fantasy Steampunk

Pepper Land

Hard Science Military Modern Political

Astra Rho

The worlds of sector Astra Rho were hit hard by the Scream, and it left many of them ruined, broken, and isolated from one another. But with the rediscovery of old spike drives and ships on several worlds and moons across the sector in the past few c...

Hard Science Political Science Fiction Space Opera

The Known Galaxy

The Known Galaxy is an encyclopedia on the thousands of star systems known by the Federation of Kartika to harbor humans, or sapient forms of life created or uplifted by humans. At present, Kartikan scientists are aware of at least 9,976 star systems...

Exploration Hard Science Political Science Fiction

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Hard Science Science Fiction

Diaspora

The universe of 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 other sapient denizens of the interstell...

Exploration Hard Science Informational Science Fiction, Modern Speculative

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

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

Alt Earth

Hard Science Military Science Fiction

S.A.V.E.

Cyberpunk Hard Science Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction Speculative

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A golden land of opportunity and adventure

This will be the setting for a Transhuman Space campaign.

Hard Science Neo Noir 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

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

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

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

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

Ramiss

It is a tidally locked planet.

Ancient Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic

Tourmaline

My story spans multiple dimensions, Tourmaline is one of them. It is made up of a world roughly the same size as Earth. Its year is 13 months long, with 28 days in each month. This world has two moons, one of which would be considered 'normal', which...

Clockpunk Dieselpunk Fantasy, High Magic Hard Science Military

Byte's World

Dystopia Hard Science Military Science Fiction Speculative

Tales of the void

Hard Science Mecha Science Fiction, Modern

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

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

Caani Sector

A far sector colonized in the beginning of the first wave due to favorable metadimensional currents, Caani was closed off from the rest of the galaxy when these waves shifted. Shortly into the second wave these planets were found by a survey ship, ve...

Hard Science Science Fiction Space Opera

Sector Lyonesse Delta

Cyberpunk Exploration Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Urban Hard Science

Outside

In the year 2117, the walls rose. All over the U.S, the populace was truly split into the haves and the have-nots. Nearly two centuries later and the have-nots still struggle, still fight, fight for their survival, for their humanity. Inside the lush...

Cyberpunk Dystopia Hard Science Science Fiction

Bastion

Over three hundred and fifty years ago, Simon cleaved space and time from void to see if he could learn and grow and eventually found himself lonely. He gifted half of his Mind to the universe in hopes it would use his gifts of substance and light an...

Hard Science Science Fiction

Davel

Exploration Hard Science Science Fiction Science Fiction, Modern Speculative

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

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

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

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 Open Spiral Arm

Just one arm of the Agris Spiral, the Open Arm has a reputation as the melting pot of the galaxy. The best, the worst, and everything in between can be found within its borders. Though most never live a life that takes them outside their sector, let...

Comedy Hard Science Science Fiction Space Opera Speculative

Augataur

Ancient Cyberpunk Exploration Fairy tale Fantasy

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

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

Aetherverse

Set in the year 2550, Humanity has spread out across the stars colonising countless worlds. Yet all is not perfect within Human society. Disillusioned with the United Earth Government, many factions have risen in rebellion looking to take back contro...

Hard Science Science Fiction

The Celestial Universe

The Celestial Universe, otherwise known as the Heavenly Plane is a universe and realm, in fact, the first created after the big bang event. Located at what you can somewhat consider the center of existence, this universe perpetually creates powerful...

Adult 18+ Ancient Atompunk Biopunk Cyberpunk

The Klustraa System

Klustraa is a typical star in the way of size and color, but it seems to have had an unusually large amount of debris orbiting it in its early years, as it has many, many planets and moons. Some of these worlds are teeming with life, chief among th...

Fantasy, High Magic Hard Science Medieval Steampunk Sword & Sorcery

2807

The year is 2807 A.C.E. Humanity has spread to the stars, and maintains an interstellar empire 10,000 light years in radius in the Milky Way. Long ago, humans discovered basic single-cell life in other places in the Solar System and Galaxy. This indi...

Exploration Hard Science Post-modern Science Fiction Space Opera

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

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

Mark's Star

(Look at my timeline, not my articles, as most of the content is there) In the early 2500s, a man named Director Steve Mark embarked on an expedition to the inner galaxy. He aimed to find earth-like worlds, as his title referred to his scientific...

Hard Science Science Fiction Space Opera

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

Terra

The heart of the Terran empire is a hot desert planet littered with Oases. It is one of five planets that orbit a black hole called Gravita. It has a single moon named Arcadia. At the center of this wide reaching civilization is Tera Centuria, a glor...

Biopunk Hard Magic Hard Science Science Fantasy Surreal

Vincosa

Vincosa is a Future-Tech Science Fiction project created by EpicToaster1. It is a collection of various nations and entities living within the Vincosa Galaxy. The Vincosa Galaxy is located 720 Million Light Years away from the Milky Way Gal...

Hard Science Science Fiction Space Opera

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

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

Dynasty of Magic

Magic - a mystical and powerful force. It is a word used when the impossible happens, and no explanation exists. Magic is the cause; impossibility is the effect. But humans are nothing if not curious. How did we get to this point? What are the f...

Hard Magic Hard Science Political Science Fantasy

transhuman world

Hard Science Science Fiction

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

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

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

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

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

The Drums of Atlant

The Drums of Atlant takes place on a future Earth, or Terra as it is generally called by that time, starting in the year 2048. On Terra a culture of science has developed out of the ashes of a near-miss of a world war that almost became a nuclear war...

Exploration Hard Science Science Fiction Space Opera

The Court of Stars

From different corners of the cosmos they rose-- one from a cradle of stardust, one from the shale of an endless pit, and one from the bones of a long-dead civilization. They shaped themselves anew in the vicious reality of the universe and then they...

Adult 18+ Biopunk Fantasy, Dark Hard Science Science Fiction

Indeterminate Location

Hard Science Post-modern Science Fantasy Supernatural Surreal

The Nations of Mankind

Cyberpunk Hard Science Science Fiction Solarpunk

Earth 741 Dawn of Shadows

Earth 741 Dawn of Shadows is a heavy Sci-fi/ Fantasty world setting run on the FATE Core mechanics The earth has suffered several major events over the last 700 or so ears. Resource scarcity, global warming, and The Event- which was a semi-doomsda...

Biopunk Cyberpunk Fantasy, Urban Hard Science Post Apocalyptic

Space Colonialism: 1960 Edition

The Second World War ends with the essence of Nazi Germany flying away on nuclear torchships, leaving much of the country uninhabitable and the Allies picking up the pieces of their advanced enemy. Now, you would think that after two wars that lead t...

Atompunk Dieselpunk Exploration Hard Science Horror

Autria

Autria is a world filled to the brim with complex nations with weird names and weirder politics and traditions. With over 90 nations and many unaligned Islands, Autria is a huge world with an almost infinite amount of possibility. Which also means an...

Fantasy, Urban Hard Magic Hard Science Historical Medieval

Verthandi I

a beautiful world teeming with life, deep oceans, temperate mountains, but not a single living soul... ...this wasn't the case 50 years ago, a massive population for an earth-like inner planet of 15 billion, with the passing of one day however all...

Dystopia Hard Science Military Science Fiction Space Opera

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

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

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