| Speculative biology is simultaneously a science and form of art in which one speculates on the possibilities of life and evolution. What could the world look like if dinosaurs had never gone extinct? What could alien lifeforms look like? What kinds of plants and animals might exist in the far future? These questions and more are tackled by speculative biologists, and the Speculative Evolution welcomes all relevant ideas, inquiries, and world-building projects alike. With a member base comprising users from across the world, our community is the largest and longest-running place of gathering for speculative biologists on the web. While unregistered users are able to browse the forum on a basic level, registering an account provides additional forum access not visible to guests as well as the ability to join in discussions and contribute yourself! Registration is free and instantaneous. Join our community today! |
| Premise Pitch, share you ideas.; Your ideas for Films, Shows, Novels. | |
|---|---|
| Topic Started: Oct 2 2010, 06:00 PM (4,559 Views) | |
| Practically Uninformed | Oct 3 2010, 05:52 PM Post #31 |
|
Informed enough to care
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
|
Perhaps you could do something where someone is "switched out" for their counterpart in an alternate universe every 24 hours, and eventually gets to see the entirety of the multiverse, spread across the Horizon of Reality. |
| You may be a king or a lil' street sweeper, but sooner or later, you'll dance with the reaper! | |
![]() |
|
| lamna | Oct 3 2010, 06:10 PM Post #32 |
![]() ![]()
|
Ain't that a like a Sawyer story? |
|
Living Fossils Fósseis Vibos: Reserva Natural 34 MYH, 4 tonne dinosaur. [flash=500,450] Video Magic! [/flash] | |
![]() |
|
| Practically Uninformed | Oct 3 2010, 06:37 PM Post #33 |
|
Informed enough to care
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
|
You could give it a spin. |
| You may be a king or a lil' street sweeper, but sooner or later, you'll dance with the reaper! | |
![]() |
|
| lamna | Oct 3 2010, 06:54 PM Post #34 |
![]() ![]()
|
That's not really the kind of story I'm into to be honest. I'd like to write an ISOT story. Currently I have one where Aliens kidnap a load of people from early 18th century America (and a couple of Turks and a Chinese chap). |
|
Living Fossils Fósseis Vibos: Reserva Natural 34 MYH, 4 tonne dinosaur. [flash=500,450] Video Magic! [/flash] | |
![]() |
|
| Practically Uninformed | Oct 3 2010, 07:01 PM Post #35 |
|
Informed enough to care
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
|
What do these people do? Rebel? |
| You may be a king or a lil' street sweeper, but sooner or later, you'll dance with the reaper! | |
![]() |
|
| Kingpin | Oct 3 2010, 11:09 PM Post #36 |
|
Prime Specimen
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
|
Tricky little bastard. He fooled me into reading his books. I doubt they're that bad, but it's difficult to know what the heck they're talking about. Mark Twain used 19th century speak. |
-Last Olympian, Rick Riordan.
-Nick | |
![]() |
|
| lamna | Oct 4 2010, 05:37 AM Post #37 |
![]() ![]()
|
Robert J. Sawyer. Canadian SF author. And the aliens that kidnap them just dump them on a planet so they can hunt humans more conveniently. The only act of rebellion is when they attempt to spoil the aliens fun by not fighting back in 2013. The aliens just start destroying cities. http://lamnay.deviantart.com/art/Transplanted-179216130 |
|
Living Fossils Fósseis Vibos: Reserva Natural 34 MYH, 4 tonne dinosaur. [flash=500,450] Video Magic! [/flash] | |
![]() |
|
| dialforthedevil | Oct 4 2010, 02:25 PM Post #38 |
![]()
Frumentarii Administrator
![]()
|
Actually im gunna start a topic where you enter your universe into the multiverse and then we can form alliances and predict how the worlds would get on... |
|
Please come visit A Scientfic Fantasy http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/topic/3433014/1/ ALSO!!! JOIN THE NEW RPG SITE!!! FOR ALL MEMBERS!!! IM GOING TO RUN MA GLOBAL SIMULATORS THERE!!! http://s4.zetaboards.com/jasonguppy/index/ Join the Campaign to save minotaurs from extinction!!! (include this in your signature to show your support!) | |
![]() |
|
| Practically Uninformed | Oct 4 2010, 05:17 PM Post #39 |
|
Informed enough to care
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
|
Ok then. I've also got an idea for a series of Choose-Your-Own-Adventure books, where you've been transported to a misty dream world, simply dubbed "The Between" by its terrifying inhabitants, and you must find your family that has gone missing, along with stopping whatever calamity seems to be threatening the Between that day. |
| You may be a king or a lil' street sweeper, but sooner or later, you'll dance with the reaper! | |
![]() |
|
| SIngemeister | Oct 4 2010, 05:41 PM Post #40 |
![]()
Hive Tyrant of the Essee Swarm
![]()
|
I love the 'that day' bit Tech 1: What's happening? Tech 2: Oh it's just a calamity. Tech 1: ANOTHER ONE? Tech 2: Third this week, in't it? |
|
My Deviantart RRRAAAAAARRRRGGGGHHH!!!!! | |
![]() |
|
| Practically Uninformed | Oct 4 2010, 06:06 PM Post #41 |
|
Informed enough to care
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
|
Mostly, though, the peril involves the inhabitants themselves, including a Tengu priest-guy-person (he lives in a big wooden church), a tribe of little dirty men, a talking skull, a creature with the head of a cat and the body of a centipede (who promises whatever you want), a race of cyclopic creatures that all drive 1-wheeled vehicles, and the skeleton captain of a Death Ferry (ferried by, of course, rotting corpses). |
| You may be a king or a lil' street sweeper, but sooner or later, you'll dance with the reaper! | |
![]() |
|
| Scrublord | Oct 4 2010, 06:31 PM Post #42 |
|
Father Pellegrini
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
|
Here's my sci-fi premise: 10,000 years in the future, humanity has finally colonized the Galaxy. During this time, five other sapient species have been contacted, all of them no more advanced than humanity itself. They are: the snakelike Bishreh, the bat-winged Praesepians, the quilled Xyleth, the tentacled Pkokwe, and the bizarre, insectoid Chirrd. These species have joined together to create a new unit of government called the Galactic Embassy, designed to prevent inter-species conflict. Despite all this, faster-than-light travel has still remained impossible. . .until now. The prototype of the first faster-than-light spacecraft disappears mysteriously, and then, three years later, a species of aliens from outside the galaxy called the Rilln attack the Embassy. It soon becomes apparent that the Rilln are not acting of their own accord, but are instead under being controlled by whoever stole the spacecraft prototype three years before. |
|
My Projects: The Neozoic Redux Valhalla--Take Three! The Big One Deviantart Account: http://elsqiubbonator.deviantart.com In the end, the best advice I could give you would be to do your project in a way that feels natural to you, rather than trying to imitate some geek with a laptop in Colorado. --Heteromorph | |
![]() |
|
| Ànraich | Oct 5 2010, 12:01 AM Post #43 |
![]()
L'évolution Spéculative est moi
![]()
|
I've actually decided as of yesterday to start a "Planet of the Week" on DA. The first one was kind of rushed, so it sucks, but my plan is for a Star Trek style weekly short story about a new planet being discovered by various Human spaceships. It'll give me a chance to practice my writing and my photoshop skills. Who knows, maybe it'll become popular someday. As for my actual universe, it's pretty dull. Humanity doesn't really have any kind of unifying political structure. We're just as divided in space as we were on Earth. For the most part there are three main Human factions: the United Earth Federation (a unified Earth with a federal government and rather imperialistic tenancies), the United Jovian Moons (a neocommunist dictatorship composed mostly of descendants from Russian settlers), and the Republic of Mars (a parliamentary republic made up of people of many origins). That's not to say there aren't other factions. There's Venus (a capitalist paradise largely composed of descendants of Muslim settlers), Enceladus (an isolationist Hindu kingdom founded by Indian settlers), Europa (another capitalist paradise, founded by Chinese settlers), and all manner of asteroid micronations, private space stations, orbital habitats, sovereign generational ships, and even a cyberized Human singularity or two. The UEF by far controls the most of any faction, holding within their iron grip a startling 7 star systems. The runner up, Mars, on the other hand, only can claim 3 (the UJM has none whatsoever). Venus is also practically a puppet of the UEF, as they consider Earth to be the "Holy Planet," much as Muslims on Earth consider Mecca to be a holy city. They don't really do what the UEF demands of them, but you can be sure that attacking the Holy Planet will result in Venus declaring nothing less that total jihad against you for all eternity (literally all eternity, they will never accept any form of peace treaty; an offense against the Holy Planet is treason against Allah in their minds). For the most part Humans just kind of settle wherever there's no other flag there first (so to speak). In fact unless the species in question is imperialistic by nature, most species in my universe just kind of settler wherever. They share whole planets with other species, in many cases dividing it up into species-specific nation-states (though it's not uncommon to find nations and planets with integrated multi-species populations). They trade with each other, conduct diplomacy with each other, and even fight war with each other. There's no order out on the endless frontier of space, so they just have to make their own and get on with life. There's also not a whole lot of interstellar war in my universe. It's just too damn expensive; the cost of occupying an entire planet bankrupts most would-be empires before they've even managed to secure their gains. And I don't need to tell you how much it must cost to build a single ship capable of superluminal travel while still packing enough firepower to take over an entire planet, let alone a whole armada of them. Sure some species like the S'Dar and Chitrit manage to make due somehow, but most species take one look at the estimated costs and have a heart attack (or equivalent reaction to such financial mutilation). |
|
We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar. "The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming Tree That Owns Itself
| |
![]() |
|
| Ànraich | Oct 5 2010, 12:27 AM Post #44 |
![]()
L'évolution Spéculative est moi
![]()
|
I was totally thinking about something similar. I figured that since so many of us had projects in the habitable zone, we could probably get some kind of RP going where all the species existed in the same universe and interacted. I was thinking of calling it "Spec Trek." |
|
We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar. "The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming Tree That Owns Itself
| |
![]() |
|
| lamna | Oct 6 2010, 11:24 AM Post #45 |
![]() ![]()
|
I've be sure to do more than just curtsy click on your planetary art stuff then. Sounds interesting. And I've love to make a Biopic film about Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck. I can't believe he doesn't have a film and Che Guevara does. Che was a racist bastard in Africa while Lettow-Vorbeck took the time to learn Swahili and earn the trust and loyalty of his men. He also managed to continue fielding a viable military force cut off from resupply, winning many battles and trying down large numbers of allied troops in Africa. Che's closest thing to a military victory was when he got lost during the Bay of Pigs invasion. Edited by lamna, Oct 6 2010, 12:05 PM.
|
|
Living Fossils Fósseis Vibos: Reserva Natural 34 MYH, 4 tonne dinosaur. [flash=500,450] Video Magic! [/flash] | |
![]() |
|
| 1 user reading this topic (1 Guest and 0 Anonymous) | |
|
|
| Go to Next Page | |
| « Previous Topic · General Discussion · Next Topic » |















11:27 AM Jul 13