TheGambitOfHumanity

I'm building a world.

KNOWN SPACE See the full map at projectmorningstar.net/lore/… The Galaxy is a vast expanse containing billions of stars, with an extreme majority still unknown. One of its stellar branches is the Orion Spur, the cradle of humanity. Now it is the region from which New Mankind has emerged together with the Hegemon and its Thousand Empires, seeking to bring the universe to profit. It comprises 24 supersectors, which are then subdivided into sectors consisting of dozens of valuable habitable systems. Many are densely populated, heavily industrialized, but none more so than the eldest systems that form the ExeCor. Many systems within its fifteen parsec diameter claim to be the birthworlds of humanity, despite it remaining unknown as to which was the first. Most valued is Protea, the heart of the Hegemon and the world on which The Market was built. Between the ExeCor and the ever-expanding Frontier lie the Midworlds of Civil Space that make up the Hegemon. Here, hundreds of nations, thousands of systems, and the innumerable masses of Consumers are united in mutually beneficial Avarice within the twelve thousand parsecs of Known Space. Before it was usurped and redefined by New Mankind, Humanity was a truly ancient species. Primeval megastructures are continuously discovered throughout Known Space and are a testament to multiple human interstellar empires whose technology remains a wonder despite the accomplishments of the MacroCorps. There always remains the possibility of far-flung civilizations still to be discovered and contacted, even within Civil Space, and then subsumed into the Hegemon’s culture of trade and commerce. Note: map does not include non-Hegemonic human civilizations. #projectmorningstar #scifi #worldbuilding #lore #barakan #spacetravel

We need more visions of humanity spreading across the Solar System, not just the idea that we will stay on one planet forever.