Hard Science

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

The Cluster

The M56 globular cluster, known simply as "The Cluster" is a globular star cluster located approximately 32,900 light years from Earth. In the year 12,658 CE, as measured by the old Terran calendar system, a large, primarily human colon...

Hard Science Science Fiction Space Opera

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

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

Alt Earth

Hard Science Military Science Fiction

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dividera

[quote]The ultimate meaning to which all stories have two faces: the community of life, and the inevitability of death -- Italo Calvino[/quote] The world of Dividera is a land of legends, myths and tales brought to life. It is also a land ravaged b...

Fantasy, High Magic Hard Science Science Fantasy 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

The Great Sky

The Great Sky is composed of several floating isle. Each one has their people, biome, and secrets.What's outside the Great Sky ? No one knows, it is encircled of polar stratospheric clouds made of acid. An impassa...

Exploration Fantasy Hard Magic Hard Science Surreal

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

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

The Second Age

[spotify:https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2PEgKoMAGv5I9YqqTJSX0N?si=X58N6iDDT0egvcbWhniukw] Welcome to the Second Age of Gaia! I will expand this as I keep playing and running games in this world, feel free to stay a while and check out the a...

Hard Science Historical Horror Modern Science Fiction, Modern

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

S.A.V.E.

Cyberpunk Hard Science Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction Speculative

Sol's 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

Solaris

Child Safe Hard Science Political Science Fiction Space Opera

Ramiss

It is a tidally locked planet.

Ancient Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic

A golden land of opportunity and adventure

This will be the setting for a Transhuman Space campaign.

Hard Science Neo Noir Science Fiction

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

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

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

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

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

Sector Lyonesse Delta

Cyberpunk Exploration Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Urban Hard Science

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gala Supercluster

Cyberpunk Hard Science Military Science Fantasy Space Opera

Davel

Exploration Hard Science Science Fiction Science Fiction, Modern Speculative

Ad Infinitum

Set three billion years after the destruction of Earth, mankind's billion species now live in the shadow of their former kin who became living Gods. The few remaining relevant human players - posthuman demigods and AIs created by ancient empires - co...

Dystopia Hard Science Science Fiction Transhumanism

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

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

Reality Layer M70263N472740E191432

Cyberpunk Hard Science Military Science Fiction, Modern Sword & Sorcery

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

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

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

Kreid Fleet

[p]The year is 2211. For almost two centuries now not just mankind, but all life on Earth, has been at war. This is not a war of victories and battles, but one of survival, for mankind's hubris has turned the planet's weather into a devastating, rava...

Dystopia Hard Science Post Apocalyptic Solarpunk Speculative

The Star Way

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Orion Spur

Adult 18+ Cyberpunk Hard Science Horror Science Fiction

[Our] Stellar Exodus

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

Cyberpunk Dystopia Hard Science Political Science Fiction

Green Sahara

In an alternate timeline where the subtle gravitational forces of other celestial bodies did not change as they did here, the African Humid Period never ended, with drastic consequences for the world. What is, in our timeline, known as the Sahara Des...

Alternative History Ancient Hard Science Speculative

Istrich

A planet closer to the center of the Milky Way Istrich used to be a tropical Paradise for the Aviri people who call the planet home, a Millennia ago they were a thriving Magical industrializing people able to defend their planet from many threats how...

Alternative History Hard Magic Hard Science Science Fantasy

Cencerus

Fragmented into floating islands known as firma, the lands of Cencerus are a perilous place to live. While the great blue expanses between islands of other worlds merely carry a risk of drowning or pr...

Hard Science Science Fantasy Soft Magic Speculative Sword & Sorcery

Vintergatan

Vintergatan är en svensk science-fiction serie skapad av Petter Bragée. I serien får man följa med rymdhjältarna Mira, Glen, Henrik, Irina och Peo på deras äventyr i rymden. Den första serien hette Vintergatan 5a och gick som sommarlovsprogra...

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

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

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

Alkovansk Pacific Region

Alternative History Hard Science Modern Political Speculative

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

Tales of the void

Hard Science Mecha Science Fiction, Modern

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

The Nations of Mankind

Cyberpunk Hard Science Science Fiction Solarpunk

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

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

Didome

The day stretched on for almost half a year. The air rippled over the springy jet black curls of Aniya's hair and danced off the foamy waters of the Finback playing on the surface as it rapidly rushed towa...

Hard Science Medieval Science Fiction Speculative

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

Xolein

Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Fantasy, Low Magic Hard Magic

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

Salvation

Hard Science 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

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

Flesh and Chrome

Three times humanity has surged out into the wide blackness of the galaxy. Three times have the massive black-hole powered path-making ships gone forth among the stars so that those after them could settle distant worlds. At first, humanity knew n...

Crime Cyberpunk Exploration 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

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

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

Masilla

A Sci-Fi world, set in a fictional planet in a far away galaxy, moments before a great war is about to erupt. The Celestial Empire which is one of the main empires in the galaxy has tense relations with the Fiurian Empire, another main empire. The Hu...

Exploration Hard Science Science Fantasy Science Fiction Science Fiction, Modern

The Federationverse

The Federationverse is a future of our world, set 150 years from the current day. Humanity has spread out into space... but not very far. Technological limitations have confined us to the Earth-Luna system, leading to incredibly dense development wit...

Hard Science Science Fiction