Hard Science

Traverse

In the far future, humanity has been forced to abandon the doomed Earth, the cradle of the species. Refugees from the Solar System crossed a vast expanse of space reaching a far-off star cluster. They would name their alien foster home as the Travers...

Hard Science Horror Science Fantasy Speculative Transhumanism

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 deep.

Atompunk Exploration Hard Science Science Fiction Speculative

15th Realm of Secrets

Welcome to the 15th Realm of Secrets (15ROS for short). In this magicless sciency themed fantasy world you will leaf through my pet project fictional world with many creatures, nations, peoples, environments, histories, cultures and more. From the ha...

Ancient Fantasy Hard Science Military

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

Sector Lyonesse Delta

Cyberpunk Exploration Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Urban Hard Science

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

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

White Reach

Overview In the distant future, mankind has gone to the stars, and taken war with them. As they spread out across hundreds of star systems, a unifying presence came to exist with the Star League. From Terra, the First Lord was supposed...

Hard Science Mecha Military Political Science Fiction

Voidbrood

[aloud]This is the sequel to [world:1384bbe8-c074-4401-a529-d4e395dd81ce] and [world:0b677f06-7590-4579-8ea3-8734fb6c367a]. The French version is [world:f51ea685-7bd4-4e05-89b7-4b7adf4f21f6]. For the non-fiction part, go to [world:f6197e81-...

Adult 18+ Hard Science Military Science Fiction Space Opera

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

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

Alt Earth

Hard Science Military Science Fiction

Long War

Contrary to humanity's expectations, neither leaving Earth nor expanding throught the Galaxy could change human nature. When Mankind expanded throughout the stars, its problems expanded as well. Both in number and in scale. Most of them will...

Dystopia Hard Science Political Science Fiction Space Opera

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

Talifar

Talifar is the setting for the Tales From Talifar novels. In development for over two decades from the mother-and-son team of Josh Foreman and Rose Foreman. Rose is a science fiction / fantasy author and writing teacher. Josh has been building worlds...

Fantasy Hard Science Science Fantasy

Isaac Atomic Solar System

The year is 2247. The solar system has long since been colonized with a total population of around 23 billion, but most people still live on earth, around 20 billion of them. Mars long ago separated from earth, and the gas giants have formed together...

Hard Science Science Fiction Speculative

Life Under Four Suns

[aloud]My personal project for competing in WA Summer Camp 2020.[/aloud] [container:callout]This setting proudly uses the [world:d4935f8e-1685-4104-a8e9-4301e1f150f2] for it's campaigns![/container] [quote]Basht slammed the ship controls forward....

Hard Science Science Fantasy Western

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tamyrh

Welcome! Here on World Anvil - "Tamyrh", you'll have access to my world-building bits, side-stories, timelines, maps, notes, and all the other details that form the foundation for the adventures of Nash...

Cyberpunk Dystopia Hard Science Political Science Fiction

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

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

S.A.V.E.

Cyberpunk Hard Science Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction Speculative

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

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

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

After Earth

In the early 1970s, scientists warned of the consequences of climate change. Greenhouse effect, polar ice melt, droughts, dying forests and storms. But these warnings were dismissed as scaremongering or ignored. Even at the beginning of the 2...

Hard Science Science Fiction, Modern

Gala Supercluster

Cyberpunk Hard Science Military Science Fantasy Space Opera

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

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

Gaia

This is The World of Not Final Fantasy, Not Not Final Fantasy and Not Not Final Fantasy — 2. [p]At the dawn of Gaia's history, a war of extreme consequences took place; by the end of the war, the aetherial sea...

Fantasy Fantasy, High Magic Hard Magic Hard Science Supernatural

Parastellis

Civilization is united, for the first time in history, under the aegis of the Stellar Compact in the wake of an apocalyptic war centuries ago. An age of peace reigns; new species are found, lost worlds recontacted, and alien ruins explored. But all i...

Exploration Hard Science Political Science Fiction Space Opera

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

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

Angaran Expansion Project

The angara from Bioware's Mass Effect: Andromeda are a fascinating race. However, our meeting with them takes place so quickly and during such a complex series of events that there would have been a lot of confusion and missing information... Where w...

Fanfiction Hard Science Informational Science Fantasy Science Fiction

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

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 Influx

It's been two months since The Influx. No one was prepared for the world to get flipped on its head; magic, psionics, technology, aliens, and ancient whispers collide to create a new mess for all of the races and species in this galaxy to figure out...

Cyberpunk Hard Science Science Fiction, Modern Superheroic

Nectar

One of the hubs of Lunar life, Nectar is poised on the cusp of a Golden Age as most of it's populace moves from Old Nectar to the shining, open spaces of New Nectar. As the bright lights of the rich and prosperous move from the cramped tunnel beehive...

Hard Science

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

Offworld

Welcome to the future. Offworld is a future of our world, set 150 years from today. In that century and a half, much of the world as we know it has completely changed. Nations have fallen, empires have risen, and bru...

Hard Science Science Fiction

Tales of the void

Hard Science Mecha Science Fiction, Modern

Didome

[quote] The captain's sense of unease continued to grow as the fresh breeze whipped at her salt white hair. The roiling cloud wall had appeared of the horizon sooner than she had expected, and now she was not sure they could reach the safe...

Hard Science Medieval Science Fiction Speculative

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

Licentia

[quote] Our zombies are different!|Literally every writer ever[/quote] Welcome to the landing page for everything related to this world! Please be aware that some content on both my twitter accounts and this website might be graphic, so considering...

Biopunk Hard Science Political Post Apocalyptic

Sifi Universe 1

A universe of exploration.

Hard Science Political Science Fantasy Space Opera

[Our] Stellar Exodus

https://stellarexodus.com/ (free-to-read)

Cyberpunk Dystopia Hard Science Political Science Fiction

A golden land of opportunity and adventure

This will be the setting for a Transhuman Space campaign.

Hard Science Neo Noir Science Fiction

Shelder

The "perfect" Earth clone... only 23 million light years away! Planet Shelder. Four billion and a half years of evolution to get here, now: explosive bio-diversity ranging from the micro to the macro. Danger lurking behind every c...

Exploration Hard Science Science Fiction Speculative

Kaminar

A dystopian future involving an authoritarian police state, pervasive surveillance, cyberpunk elements with commonplace artificial body implants, and immoral political machinations. Freedom is the antithesis of happiness in a state that has relinq...

Cyberpunk Dystopia Hard Science Science Fiction

Project : Eden

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

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

transhuman world

Hard Science Science Fiction

Theta Rho

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

Cyberpunk Exploration Hard Science Political Science Fiction

Kaunas

Du tūkstančiai dvidešimtieji metai. Didžioji pasaulio dalis gyvena nepritekliuje, ištisos šalys skursta ir nesugeba savęs išlaikyti, vyrauja anarchija. Išsilaikę tik didžiausi valstybių miestai ir jie yra valdomi pinigo, kuriuos turi didžiosios korp...

Cyberpunk Dystopia Hard Science

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

Sapience-Edge

It's the latter half of the 23rd century and humanity has seen rapid expansion to the edges of the solar system, human colonies on Mars, and the moons of Jupiter and Saturn are the home to Millions. Along the way, we've created A.I and uplifted anima...

Cyberpunk Hard Science Neo Noir Science Fiction Speculative

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

Obsidian

After 5000 years of human civilization, humanity has finally claimed its rightful place among the stars. But not all is well in their secluded corner of the milky way. The Splinter group of Noctra has been rampaging through known space, taking system...

Hard Science Political Science Fantasy Science Fiction Young Adult (YA)

Wouraiya

An archipelago of island-continents, each with its own governance, culture, and economy. Traditions and resources determine the fates of wars and peaces well before the battles themselves take place. Designed for a grounded experience, each species i...

Exploration Fantasy, Low Magic Hard Science Medieval Military

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

The Ansendraz Galaxy Belt

Cyberpunk Dystopia Hard Science Science Fiction Superheroic

Dark Way

Hard Science Science Fiction Science Fiction, Modern

Patron Saints

Space is a wide, wild place. Sometimes, the lines between good and evil are blurred and you have to start wondering: are the monsters right?

Hard Science Science Fiction Science Fiction, Modern

Abyssal Planes Prototype

Abyssal Planes is a (web)comic I’m working on. The basic idea is a reaction to the archetypical village/town/country/continent/world sized dungeon we see so often in fantasy. Why would anyone build a dungeon so big? How? What for? The ideas e...

Cyberpunk Dystopia Fantasy, Dark Hard Science Horror

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

Triad: Operation Spearhead

[quote] The universe is big. In the Milky Way Galaxy alone there are millions of stars, with millions of planets orbiting them. We know that at least some of them must harbor life, and that at least some of that life must be intelligent. At least som...

Exploration Hard Science Military Science Fiction

Shatterlands

[spotify:https://open.spotify.com/track/4UQIn1fuVwapZHl59OJz2e?si=ghqgvS3LR12B2KIvHlf0cw] [p]"Yet still[/p] [p]we continue[/p] [p]to persist..."[/p]

Dystopia Hard Science Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction, Modern Speculative

Tales from Night City

Crime Cyberpunk Dystopia Hard Science Science Fiction

Davel

Exploration Hard Science Science Fiction Science Fiction, Modern Speculative

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

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.  Deprived of godlike powers to animate metal slaves, to se...

Hard Science Mecha Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction Superheroic

Augataur

Ancient Cyberpunk Exploration Fairy tale Fantasy

Orion Spur

Adult 18+ Cyberpunk Hard Science Horror Science Fiction

Avron

Their star is dying, yet the gruesome war that has dominated this system for years sees no sign of ceasing. Within a mere 150 years, their doomed sun will go supernova, promptly annihilating any planets within the system. That is, if the war doesn't...

Exploration Hard Science Military Science Fiction, Modern

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

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

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

Reality Layer M70263N472740E191432

Cyberpunk Hard Science Military Science Fiction, Modern Sword & Sorcery

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

UberSpace

[color:#e86e04]A Science Fiction Experience spanning a number of different games and activities...[/color] [color:#e86e04]Part RPG, part Megagame, part Board Game and part Hands-On Starship BRIDGE Simulator all get wrapped up into one epic ad...

Exploration Hard Science Science Fiction Science Fiction, Modern Space Opera

Universe 2525

This is a version of our universe in the year 2525. A lot has happened in the period between our present and the year 2525. The large corporations that once controlled almost everything have now been dismantled, and the few that still exist, do so un...

Biopunk Hard Science Post Apocalyptic Solarpunk Transhumanism

Thoriandra

Thoriandra is a harsh and unforgiving world full of strange creatures and old magic. It wasn’t always. Once the 13 races lived in peace. Once, magic and technology were combined to create unimaginable wonders. Twelve thousand years ago, Man,...

Adult 18+ Fantasy, High Magic Hard Science Political Religious

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

Verge of the Void

[quote] [p]Aus den Sternen kamen wir. Aus den leeren Weiten formten wir Ursprung.[/p] [p]Genötigt von unserer Gier, gefunden von unseren Ahnen, gemacht von unserer Hand; mannigfaltig sind unsere Wege, die u...

Crime Hard Science Science Fiction Transhumanism Western

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

Lost Lands

¿En donde estamos? Hace 50 años se libro una cruel guerra en donde las grandes potencias mundiales cambiaron la geografía y clima global con el uso de armas de destrucción masiva. Una de estas potencias libero un...

Hard Science Science Fantasy Science Fiction

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

Amoxath

A world that is the home to Shem, Caeldori, Regonar and Venerra, full of all types of races, beasts, and magic! What mysteries are to be found? It's up to you to find out!

Hard Science Supernatural Sword & Sorcery

Janus' Halo

Nearly a millenia after a galactic war began ravaging the human colonies of the Milky Way, a ship carrying humanity's desperate hope arrived in a world untouched by intelligent life. A paradise. The colony has no way to contact Earth, some 609 millio...

Hard Science Science Fiction

Voerenhutz-Sektor

Die Menschheit hat seit Hunderten von Jahren Teile der bekannten Milchstraße besiedelt, nicht zuletzt aufgrund des von dem kauzigen Wissenschaftler Dr. Tiberius Crohn entwickelten Spike-Antriebs, der durch Verschiebungen der, das Einstein-Universum ü...

Hard Science Neo Noir Political Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction

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

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

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

Agilerons: A Space Combat Thriller

This is a Sci-Fi universe that is centered around a couple of characters before, during, and after a massive war raged between the human race and a race called the Cliv'afal. The war destroyed multiple worlds and caused rapid expansions in the techno...

Hard Science Military Science Fiction