@nyrath My own... even though I'm obviously biased it's a pretty alright future. Essentially democratic socialist economy, around 65% post-scarcity, universal morphic freedom, the alien cultures are actually varied and deep. Would still be a writer but with more free time.
I actually wouldn't want Star Trek because frankly the aliens there look and act boring and cosmetic genemodding is banned (again am biased).
Wouldn't mind the Culture, yea. Seems like the best of both worlds.
Surely it would be something like Star Trek, with more adventurous settings (Star Wars, Blade Runner, the adventures of Valerian and Laureline, etc...) confined to an holodeck-type simulation.
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Honestly, the setting that most captured my imagination when I was younger was actually Traveller—there was just so much romance to it, and the mind-boggling scale of it was so alluring. Not sure I’d want to live in it, though, since my odds of being an Imperial Knight are like one in a billion.
If I were going to be a nobody (like IRL), then it’s probably got to be Star Trek. I mean, idealistic post-scarcity socialism FTW.
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BTW, there are other settings that talk a lot about big scale, but the thing with Traveller is that it really felt like there were 10,000 worlds and limitless frontiers...
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As much as I love the Expanse TV show, and Apple's Foundation, I think I'd have to agree. Star Trek is a more appealing future than space slums or the Galactic Empire of Hats.
@nyrath I dunno, I'd kinda like to be one of the Affront :D (the fun part is that could be temporarily at least, and then be a fractal space-faring photon-absorbing bush for a while too!)
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