Hard Science

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

Parastellis

The future is a strange, yet familiar place. Humanity has achieved its dream of space colonization, going interstellar with wormhole stargates. Over a century after a terrible dark age ended, civilization enjoys an age of peace united in the Stellar...

Exploration Hard Science Political Science Fiction Space Opera

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

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

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

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

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

Epahus - 3. Imperium der Menschheit

1110 nach der Gründung des 3. Imperiums. Während sich das Imperium in kleineren Koloniekriegen verliert und die Wunden des Solomani-Krieges leckt, geht im Outer-Rim das Leben weiter wie bisher. Die Probleme der Core-Welten sind weit entfernt und ein...

Hard Science Science Fiction Science Fiction, Modern Space Opera Surreal

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

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

Didome

Welcome to Didome Welcome to the world of Didome. A world where the time between sunrises is over half an earth year. The @[Sun](lo...

Hard Science Medieval 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 Science Fiction Speculative

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

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

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

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

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

Xahverse

In a not-so distant future, humanity faces either it's greatest threat, or its greatest potential. From their ice-bound home world, the genetically engineered people of the Federation of Xah have spread through out their galaxy, convinced of their ow...

Hard Science Post Apocalyptic Science Fantasy Space Opera Transhumanism

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

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

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

Known Space

Known Space is roughly 60 to 80 light years in diameter ,depending on the eras, and centered on Sol. Known Space is made up of thousands of stars of all spectral classes, a corresponding number of planets, uncounted moons, planetoids, and comet...

Cyberpunk Hard Science Science Fiction Space Opera

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

Gala Supercluster

Cyberpunk Hard Science Military Science Fantasy Space Opera

The Sol System

Hard Science Science Fiction Space Opera

Project : Eden

Hard Science Science Fiction

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

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

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

Orion Spur

Adult 18+ Cyberpunk Hard Science Horror 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

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

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

Worlds of Andriod

Cyberpunk Hard Science Science Fiction Urban

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

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

Ectharion

the Planet of Etharion is a world of high unstable magic, high stakes conflict and grand invention, A land of divided cultures, and the races at one another's throats to strive is these harsh lands, filled with danger and adventure! the two moons han...

Clockpunk Fantasy, High Magic Hard Science MagiPunk Political

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

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)

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

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

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

Tales of the void

Hard Science Mecha Science Fiction, Modern

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

The Bijourn Cluster

Space is empty We give it names: the expanse, the black, this territory or that We try to fill it with people and ships and colonies, so that every pinprick of light may no...

Hard Science Science Fiction

Ramiss

It is a tidally locked planet.

Ancient Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic

S.A.V.E.

Cyberpunk Hard Science Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction Speculative

Sector Lyonesse Delta

Cyberpunk Exploration Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Urban Hard Science

Reborn Stars

For millenia, the galaxy was empty. Its previous inhabitants wiped out, their monuments razed, leaving barely a trace behind. All that is left of their greatness are a few precious scraps for the next generation of species to squabble over. The galax...

Hard Science Political Science Fiction Speculative

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

Alantia Station

Alternative History Hard Science Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction

The Frontier

The Frontier world takes place in the mid 23rd century when humanity has established itself in the galactic community among other space fairing races. Humanity must adapt to their new galactic environment and either work with or against the numerous...

Exploration Hard Science Military Political Science Fantasy

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

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

Alt Earth

Hard Science Military Science Fiction

Legacy of Sol

"Legacy of Sol" is a science fiction setting focused on a hypothetical early expansion of mankind into outer space. It draws inspiration from a wide variety of sources and is intended to primarily feature the exceptional men and women that pilot the...

Exploration Hard Science Mecha Military Science Fiction

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

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

Theta Rho

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

Cyberpunk Exploration Hard Science Political 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

Sifi Universe 1

A universe of exploration.

Hard Science Political Science Fantasy Space Opera

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

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

Oblivion

[quote] So something happened to you? You've had what we call in the business the Experience, you've seen things that no human is supposed to see right? Well now you've got a choice to make. Do you go back to your life of fighting the petty terrestr...

Hard Magic Hard Science Modern Science Fiction, Modern Weird

Coriolis - The Third Horizon

Coriolis – The Third Horizon is a science fiction role playing game set in a remote cluster of star systems called The Third Horizon. It is a place ravaged by conflicts and war, but also home to proud civilisations, both new and old. Here, the so ca...

Hard Science Political Religious Science Fantasy 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

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

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

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

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

Vsetka

A whole continent coverded by a huge city: from coast to coast, from the top of the mountains to the lowest of the slums. Welcome to Vsetka, where technology and biology are merged into one.

Biopunk Clockpunk Fantasy, Urban Hard Science Sword & Sorcery

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

Galaxy in Eclipse

Adult 18+ Hard Science Science Fiction Space Opera

The Knight & The Faun

"The world, modern Earth as we know it, has ended in catastrophe after a failed experiment tore a hole in spacetime. But rather than usher in an apocalyptic age, a group of the world's best and brightest combined their powers and ascended to what can...

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

Eclypse : Point zéro

Wiki du futur space-opera "Eclypse" Je suisUn monde futuriste où le monde est peuplé d’êtres anthropomorphique, vivant sur plusieurs colonies à travers l'espace. « On ne condamne pas un guerrier pour ces convictions, on le juge par sa bravo...

Hard Science Military Science Fiction Space Opera Transhumanism

Laniakea

L'histoire de Laniakea (du nom du superamas Laniakea) prend place 10 000 ans après l'époque actuelle. Elle suite les aventures de l'équipage du Corindon dans un futur possible et utopique...

Cyberpunk Exploration Hard Science Mecha Science Fiction

transhuman world

Hard Science Science Fiction

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

Quantum Dive

Exploration Hard Science Horror 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

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

Oxideo

Dio peto-dimenzionalne VLK. Ovaj svijet je ispunjen uglavnom ljudolikim bićima koja su unutar obitelji homo, od divova do goblina. Podijeljen je na više vrsta tehnološkog/kulturološkog prostora. To su: čarobni, tehnokratski i čarobno-tehnokratski...

Alternative History Atompunk Biopunk Clockpunk Crime

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

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

Graveyard of Worlds

Humanity was always running on borrowed time. Despite managing to survive the Cold War, the butcher's bill for the centuries of overexploitation were coming due. In 2107, the last rocket blasted off. In 2189, the final radio broadcast ceased. Earth c...

Hard Science Military Political Space Opera

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 Verse

One of the problems I have with interstellar space opera is the amount of handwavium that is required to keep it afloat. In other words, there are a lot of ifs, especially when it comes to explaining how we got out there, amongst the sta...

Hard Science Science Fiction Space Opera

Universe of Gravita

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

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

Revel

Hard Science Science Fiction

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

Omega Universe

In the far future FTL has become commonplace thanks to the discovery of Omega. The nations of the Orion Arm fight for supremacy in an ever changing interstellar game of Chess.

Cyberpunk Hard Science Military Science Fiction

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

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

[Our] Stellar Exodus

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

Cyberpunk Dystopia Hard Science Political Science Fiction

Tales from Night City

Crime Cyberpunk Dystopia Hard Science 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

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

Reality Layer M70263N472740E191432

Cyberpunk Hard Science Military Science Fiction, Modern Sword & Sorcery

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