Cyberspace

This is a cyberpunk noir, space opera setting with strong elements from the spy-fi and space western subgenres with a taste of spaghetti westerns, chanbara, and a little wuxia influence. I’m calling it Spy-ghetti-Fied, Cyber-Space, Opera-Punk, Samurai, Western Noir. Well, not really... The actual title is above in the large font… But you get what I mean, right? This is companion setting for Starfinder and includes influences from that publication; however, the strongest inspirations and aesthetics for this particular setting are drawn from the cyberpunk subgenre of sci fi and many of the themes that come from that (“Tron”, “Altered Carbon”, “Blade Runner”, “Ghost in the Shell”, “Cowboy Bebop”, “The Matrix”, “Upgrade”, “Total Recall”, “Bubblegum Crisis”, “Akira”), mixed with strange phenomena, spacial singularities, cosmic serendipity, and temporal misadventures (“Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency”, “The Irresponsible Captain Tyler”, Lovecraftian Horror, “Terminator”, “Doctor Who”, “Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets”, “Star Trek”), and overarching themes like personal evolution, corruption, redemption, sweeping events, and epic intrigues found in popular sci fi (“Dune”, “Babylon 5”/”Crusade”, “Alien Legion”, “Lensman”, “Star Wars”, “The Fifth Element”, “Stargate”, “Robotech”, “Space Battleship Yamato”), with the social dynamics, defiant fish-out-of-water, alien relationships, and interpersonal weirdness found in more intimate, smaller scale stories centered on your very own dysfunctional crew or lost and found family (“Outlaw Star”, “Firefly”/”Serenity”, Marvel’s “Guardians of the Galaxy” and “Thor Ragnarok”, “Farscape”, Mark Millar’s “Empress”, “Dark Matter”, “Tenchi Muyo!”). Other inspirations that had a more narrow scope of influence in regards to certain aspects of the setting , such as how “A Certain Magical Index” and “The Irregular at Magic High School” have provided insight into how both magic and technology might influence society. Core themes explored in this setting are cyberspace functioning in outer space as another layer of interactive reality, alien cultural diversity and how those cultures affect one another, including mixed relationships and families; exploration, colonialism, intrigue, espionage between corporate, communal, and private interest groups; the yin and yang of everything and the balance between these forces as they have theological and economic repercussions on the various civilizations of the galaxy (light and dark, order and chaos, the one and the many, the eternal and the evolving, the past and the future, choices and destiny, etc.).