Ivicris

One of the reasons I chose a rather rustic setting for the main time period was to keep the book as hard sci-fi as possible. However, all great sci-fi is built upon a great lie. In most science fiction that lie is FTL travel of some sort to allow people to travel to other planets. For the people of my world that remained an impossibility. So instead I focused on technology that could weather time and grant an entire population some facet of immortality, an eternaugt society working to build a new home. A ship trying to create an island, succeeding, and then crashing on the reef. Though I have taken liberties with the scale of some of the engineering projects, the making of a star is still based upon the tried and true recipe. Gather dust, apply pressure, set alight.   I also wanted to tell a very human story, but I didn't want humans involved for the simple reason of not wishing my readers to take sides based on their own prejudices. While my characters may have human values and humanoid bodies they are in fact aliens from our perspective, and if you are going to create one alien species, might as well do a few. And once you have a few, having humans seems rather counterproductive, as if not taking their side is wishing extinction upon yourself. If that feeling is allowed to metastasize alliances with others become much harder to forge.   This universe they live in is the same one we live in. There are few true evils, It is people and their actions that shape the world.