One thing that always bummed out in these “overpopulation” stories is that it kinda doesn’t make much sense in a futuristc world where technology and medicine are super advanced. First off, if the world is in such a dire situation due to lack of natural resources then why didn’t they simply implement stricter birth control measures? Why didn’t they came up with a way to make all humans temporarily sterile up to a certain point in their lives (when they reach maturity) and then sterile forever (after their prime) as well as making it so each couple can only have 1 or two children at most? I understand the morality issues that could arise from such a topic but we have to understand that it would make sense in such a fictional world.
Here’s an idea - keep the lack of resources but under the excuse humanity is about to make their jump into the universe itself and the amount of things necessary to make this a reality is pushing the planet to its limits, on top the all the mistakes and carelessness humanity has done in the past centuries. Not to mention if they’re living in off-world colonies then resources have to come from somewhere and unless they found a rich planet in the Sol system, a big portion would have to be imported from Earth’s stock. They could build self-sustainable domes to support colonies but until they reach that point they would have to rely on materials, goods and food from Earth… and that takes a while since a city can take up to several years or even decades to grow.
Yeah, I was trying to find a reason for them to colonize. Overpopulation seemed like a good choice. Due to the fact people live longer the population would be bigger, so I chose this. Restricting birth seemed pretty wrong to me, but I know this has been done before.
Yeah Mass Effect had the genophage with the Krogans because of their high fertility and that didn’t turn out so well with them slowly dying out by the 3rd game.
Still it would be interesting to see that in some dystopian future type game.
How about instead of overpopulation being the cause of exploring other systems, humanity Earth already colonized their solar system as much as they could and are now trying to explore and expand into new systems? This would make Earths home system pretty well established. I would also change it so teraforming is an actual thing to make colonization even more possible. So besides earth There would be colonies on the moon, a terraformed Mars and Venus. They would also have several large space stations.
So they need or want for exploring and expanding is more of a frontier thing instead of an overpopulation, lack of resources, we will die out if we don’t do this type of thing.
Lack of resources seems the most likely. We’re already draining oil from this planet and poisoning it with fracking, sewage, and radiation.
Even if we find or popularise more sustainable options, the Earth won’t be able to handle this abuse much longer, and the goverment doesn’t want anything that it can’t make money off: see, that we have a fungus that eats plastic for landfill, solar powered roads, solar panels in window glass, etc. Stuff that you haven’t heard of because the government doesn’t want you doing it. The status quo wants a new, propaganda-filled fake Earth for more money.
This could have been the initial reason for expansion into the rest of the solar system, but I think having the technology to terraform would repair some of the damage done to Earth. This is set a decent enough time in the future that new power sources would have been invented and scientific breakthroughs would have been found to repair the damage caused by previous generations. This would essentially be a new golden age for humanity and the difficulties would arise outside of Earth’s home system. I know that most people are driven by money, but when society is expanding further out into space there are other ways to make it. For someone who wanted to make money it would be in their interest to see that expansion outside Earth’s system is possible. Gaining a new foothold on the “new frontier” would do it I think.
Let us not forget that these humans had to be capable of fighting a First Contact War long and hard enough (move past it) to make possibly much more advanced alien civilizations feel the need to come to the negotiating table. I’m not saying that wiping out the Sol Space Monkeys would play well at home, but you don’t negotiate an armistice (roll credits) that you can force. It smacks somewhat of wanting to have one’s cake and eat it is what I’m getting at.
So yeah, perhaps originally humans would have set up colonies to farm for more resources, but I think once they reached the point of being able to terraform it would eventually be frontiersman spirit which took them much, much further.
You know, I always love like, women-oriented space travel stories. Because no one ends up fighting on their first meeting with aliens! Your first ideal idea of meeting with aliens should not be blowing the shit out of them.
The only reason that idea worked in Mass Effect in the first place was because Turians are the second-most militaristic race represented in Council Space (after the Krogan). Aliens can be pacificists. Impossible or otherwise too costly to fight. Every man likes a good shoot at the outsiders story but think: maybe not for once?
What happened was the scouting ship showing up minutes or seconds before a major battle. They were literally caught in a cross fire. With Earth not knowing exactly whats going on besides the need for a rescue and a great number of possible combatants they showed up in force. This wouldn’t be seen as a rescue mission by the warring forces, but more of an opportunist strike to take out already weakened forces. While for a time the space battles would be in Earth’s favor, the real trouble would be the ground battles until the alien reinforcements arrived. This would prolong the fighting even more.
Right now I’m trying to build lore so I have a foundation to write the story. I’m changing some stuff about the humans like the overpopulation issue. I’m still coming up with the aliens. I posted stuff about humans to form a foundation for them. Also yes I’m finding a reason for young people to be together, but at the same time I want some of the science to at least seem like it has some realism to it. There will also probably be some fictional science stuff.
I will post lore and info about the aliens and other things to get feedback and see what works. As of right now I want a history for the humans to make sense. I have a few ideas for aliens and various other things but first I want to fix what I already have.
Could I be Mara Shepard aka Diplomatic ruthless renegade… totally befriend all aliens and DESTROY politically all my human rivals… Becoming a pro alien ruthless political force to amass power and money…
I’m still figuring stuff out, I will see what I can do. The idea was to have those who aren’t professional politicians, but I will see when I’m writing this how I can work some in. I think in this type of situation politics would be inescapable anyway. Also this isn’t based on Mass Effect, just some elements will be inspired by it.
I know if was just an example. I don’t say start as politician … But maybe I came from a noble style family from earth or a colony and instead want to be a military like parents I want to be a politician. I mean you should let us choose what we want to do in and after be in the experiment … And probably if we are there voluntary. Or not Mara would sign voluntary to be a hostage there
Yeah the “hostage” thing is more like having all the important people’s children in one place. As for a starting origin I think something could be worked out. I haven’t coded so it will be a learning experience when I do. Right now I’m just trying to work out ideas for this story. But I understand why someone might want a different background.
I don’t know either mass effect or monster musume, but the storyline looks promising! I’m confused on what you mean by [quote=“Prof_Chaos, post:1, topic:23344”]
Earth inadvertently entering a preexisting war and starting for them a first contact war.
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Are the aliens infighting when we discover them and then we join in the fight? Also: [quote=“Prof_Chaos, post:1, topic:23344”]
So instead of relying on ambassadors due to mistrust of each other it has been agreed that the sons and/or daughters of prominent individuals will cohabitate to see if they can be trustworthy enough to pursue peace
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What’s to stop the ambassadors from influencing their children?? Have they not been in contact to ensure that they have separate opinions?[quote=“Prof_Chaos, post:1, topic:23344”]
Will everyone be able to coexist or is war inevitable?
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Ooh I love that How influential is the MC? Before you mentioned that the children will have to cohabitate in place of their parents but if theyre regarded as the child of so and so then what’s the point? In any case: Following!
What I had in mind was the scouting ship coming through the gate minutes before a major battle. As for parental influence I’m thinking monitored visits over the course of the year. The neutral races are the mediators and will be keeping a close watch on this. There will still be infighting but I’ve yet to decide how I want to implement it.
How influential is the MC? Before you mentioned that the children will have to cohabitate in place of their parents but if theyre regarded as the child of so and so then what’s the point? In any case: Following!