Hard Science

The Reach (working title)

This is a work-in-progress sci-fi universe set in an unknown SBm (barred irregular) galaxy orbiting an also unknown spiral galaxy, where human life has risen to create an interstellar spacefaring civilization through the use of a naturally occurring...

Exploration Hard Science 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

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

Space Mecha World

Big robots in space fight other big robots

Hard Science Mecha 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

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

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

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

Parastellis

A future as far removed from us as we are from ancient Rome—a strange yet familiar place of aliens, uplifted animals, posthuman offshoots, and wormhole travel. Almost two hundred years after civilization rebuilt from the ashes of the Int...

Exploration Hard Science Political Science Fiction Space Opera

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

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

Tales of the void

Hard Science Mecha Science Fiction, Modern

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

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

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

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

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

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

Xolein

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

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

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

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

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 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

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 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

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

Orion Spur

Adult 18+ Cyberpunk Hard Science Horror Science Fiction

Worlds of Andriod

Cyberpunk Hard Science Science Fiction Urban

Alt Earth

Hard Science Military Science Fiction

Voidbrood

[aloud]For the non-fiction part, go to [world:f6197e81-b915-4cf2-9edd-9943378f5c6f].[/aloud] In the 40th century. Humanity has settled hundreds of star systems, adapting to the worlds they couldn't terraform, adding new systems to their territory...

Hard Science Military Science Fiction Space Opera Transhumanism

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

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

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

Theta Rho

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

Cyberpunk Exploration Hard Science Political Science Fiction

The Bordermarch

Welcome to Outpost 83, also known as Marconi Station. It is a time of unprecedented cooperation between the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire. The Federation has been invited to ru...

Exploration Hard Science Science Fiction Space Opera

Galaxy in Eclipse

Adult 18+ Hard Science Science Fiction Space Opera

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

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

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

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

Ramiss

It is a tidally locked planet.

Ancient Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic

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

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

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

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

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)

Davel

Exploration Hard Science Science Fiction Science Fiction, Modern Speculative

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sector Lyonesse Delta

Cyberpunk Exploration Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Urban Hard Science

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

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

Epahus - 3. Imperium der Menschheit

Hard Science Science Fiction Science Fiction, Modern Space Opera Surreal

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

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

Gala Supercluster

Cyberpunk Hard Science Military Science Fantasy Space Opera

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

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

Project : Eden

Hard Science Science Fiction

Disparity

The midpoint of the twenty-third century has passed. After the advent of FTL travel and the resulting rush for the stars, the galaxy is beginning to settle into a tense political climate, with its powers divided among three major players: The Federat...

Hard Science Science Fiction Solarpunk Space Opera 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

Tenebrosus

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

Exploration Hard Magic Hard Science Medieval Science Fantasy

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

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 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

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

Transcendence

After thousands of years the Grand Galactic Republic reigns over two thirds of the Milky Way galaxy. The GGR expanded at near light speed, but wormhole networks within the GGR allowed fast then light travel. This level of near instant trade and trave...

Hard Science Political 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

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

Earth

Welcome to New York. Enjoy your stay, don't get infected, and don't mind the government black agents running around. (What is this abomination? What you get if you mush together a disgusting mix of Person of Interest and The Division 1.)

Hard Science Modern Science Fiction, Modern Urban

S.A.V.E.

Cyberpunk Hard Science Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction 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

Quantum Dawn

Quantum Dawn™ is an upcoming game currently in developpment. It is being built on the foundations of a bespoke narrative game system called Immersive Dice™. The current priority and focus is getting the Immersive Dice system to a public release so...

Adult 18+ Cyberpunk Hard Science Science Fiction Transhumanism

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Second Creation

From the very essence of life itself a universe inhabited by wondrous creatures emerges. The main stage is planet Tareolis, the home to the fractured island continent of Mas'Teiel, which encompasses most of sapient races that inhabit the planet....

Fantasy, High Magic Hard Science Political Post-modern Sword & Sorcery

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

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

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

What They Left Behind

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

Hard Science Science Fiction

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

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

Final Colonies

Humanity has been driven to a final set of colonies, and war has broken out. From the original system of Sol, humanity has spread across nearby systems using a system of wormholes. Some of these wormholes travel longer distances across the galaxy...

Hard Science Science Fiction

The Land of the Drab Dragoon

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

Alternative History Ancient Atompunk Biopunk Clockpunk

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