Welcome Edit

Universe 101 (working title) is a collaborative sci-fi series based in a galaxy dominated by three large empires.

We're a group of authors, aspiring or published, and Universe 101 is a new story to tell.

It's still heavily in the planning stage, but expect pages on planets, people and races to appear from now on.

The Empires Edit

The System Federation is a multi-stellar Corporate Bureaucracy, which allows each planet or smaller empire it contains to govern itself for the most part, but a Grand Tax is required to maintain this governance. A sub-empire of the SF is the Kelmari Domain, or Debt Collectors as they're commonly known. The SF has allowed them to take control of any dissenting planets that refuse to pay the Grand Tax...as long as a portion of profits goes their way. Working with them can be slow, and their leaders can be very brash and rigid in their demands due to a cutthroat business world tucked inside the empire's borders. People of any race and species are accepted here by default legally, however there are laws on some planets which overturn this, especially with some of the frontier planets.

The Collective are a race of thin atrophied beings who can telepathically communicate with nearby ones. They are shrouded in tangible shadow which emanates from them at all times, only dissipating with distance from one. They arrived in the galaxy from another, more distant one via means they have not disclosed. They are very secretive, but trusting - surprising for their history. Their original homeworlds were overthrown by usurpers and rebels, and they were forced to relocate or be exterminated. Their ethos with regards to disputed and uncolonised planets is simple - "I'll take that". They are well known around the galaxy to sweep in and make planets entirely uninhabitable to anyone but them, only if that planet happens to be disputed. They can live on practically any planet, but one is not comfortable until it has been terraformed into something more suitable. For this reason, The Collective are widely disliked. Even through this, they are still fairly friendly, just socially inept.

Tactile Technology is an empire run by a single AI, called AEGIS. Worlds under the control of AEGIS are free to have their population migrate to anywhere else in the domain and generally live freely, but under the watching eye of AEGIS itself, through a vast surveillance network. No punishments are issued from AEGIS however, it simply learns about organic behaviour and uses this to guide itself to fulfill its own goals. Sentient robotic workers are banned galaxy-wide and have been for years, after fears that commerce would suffer because of it. AEGIS seeks to repeal this and offer a better life for its organic inhabitants, but with the ulterior motive of stifling SF's growth and possibly creating a weak spot to take advantage of.