Let's make a Soft Sci-Fi setting, /tg/!

>>51340481
>every major faction has a death star tier dooms day water

>Reports come in from outposts on the galaxies edge. Great ships of gilded gold are coming in from beyond the galactic plane.
>A message reaches these outposts stating "This is the first grand expedition to galaxy 0074B, we are mankind and we come in peace."

Boom your welcome.

>>51340542

OP here, I'm going to veto that shit because it contradicts the first post in the thread, and it's pretty damn obvious you posted it to be contrarian.

> A species of hyperintelligent, slimy, and immense squid-like creatures control most of the galaxy's illicit trade. Their language is extremely complicated and requires multiple sets of vocal cords to speak, and the name for their species is nearly impossible to pronounce, so other species call them Zurkehti, an extremely simplified version of their actual species name.

>>51340481
>>51340522
>Political tension between races is just barely co-operational. Wars have been started by remarkably trivial things in the past.

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>Xenophobic fuzzies are one of the primary species

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>Galactic 'politics' are dominated by a race of two headed baboon like creatures with an immense propensity and abilty for violence. They're descended from an ancient empire's gengineered shock troopers, and while individually dumb as hell they're able to operate their forebears system-breaking doomsday weapons.

An ancient precurser race exploded into nanobots eaons ago. Nanobots are in everything, like dna.

By manipulating them, people can cause any number of seemingly magical effects.

>Generation ships are safer then FTL travel. FTL coms only get garbled 25% of the time

>>51341361

Despite their ignorance, they are extremely disciplined and cunning in matters of warfare. Because of this, the babboon-headed warrior race has managed to conquer nearly a fifth of the galaxy, and they have enslaved countless lesser species, forcing them to maintain their machines and produce new equipment for their legions.

They allow a few of the more useful and entertaining species some level of autonomy, as vassal states.

>>51341469
>The Spice makes it possible to safely travel FTL and communicate FTL. Spice is found only on planets in the Goldilocks zones

>>51341396
However, this can have deleterious effects on a prospective nanotheurge, because having too high a concentration of precursor nanites in the body can cause them to spontaneously reactivate in the form of a gestalt personality which can override and 'possess' the user

>>51340481
>the premise takes place in a wholly different reality
That's not scifi, that's technological fantasy!

>Thanks to specially designed engine cores, just about any hunk-a-junk with an atmosphere bubble can be made to take off and land from planets. This has lead to a thriving sports spaceship market.

>>51341396
>>51341583
>>51341655

In precise doses, Spice can cause the nanobots in an organic's bloodstream to go on overdrive, exponentially increasing their power. Spice is extremely addictive and functions as a potent hallucinogenic, and many users react negatively to the Spice, causing them to snap and go into an omnicidal rage.

Using Spice as a narcotic is extremely illegal, and only refined Spice-Fuel is legal to buy and sell, and even then it requires a permit. Spice-Fuel is Spice that has been combined with a strange combination of crystals and dysfunctional nanobots, deadening its narcotic effects.

Spice addicts can be identified by their eyes and blood, which glow when an addict is using Spice or is beginning to crave Spice. It also causes erratic mood swings, involuntary trembling, and in some cases, severe schizophrenia.

>>51341893

It takes place in a different Galaxy, but it's definitely the same reality.

>>51341927

Most of these sport-ships are incapable of FTL travel, but they are ideal for interplanetary travel. Given the large and relative complexity of these engine cores, they are usually large, with large crews, and are more like yachts than they are sports cars,

>>51340481
none of the sentient lifeforms are carbon based.