¶ What is Galaxy Citizen?
Galaxy Citizen is a Starbound Role-Play server and community that aims to provide an engaging story-driven experience in a dynamic environment where user-made content is welcome and the users themselves are encouraged to be welcoming of those who are not yet experienced or are looking to learn. The majority of the roleplay in Galaxy Citizen takes place in a region of space known as the Fringe, a largely backwater, lawless, and unexplored region of space.
¶ Science Fiction
Galaxy Citizen is classified as a Space Opera due to the wide variety of themes and elements that are often found within the canon. It aims to promote story-focused role-play where action and conflict are elements employed to keep the narrative moving forward as opposed to being the only form of narrative. Of course, being a community composed of different members and writers with different tastes and views, it can sometimes seem like a hodgepodge mixture of different genres such as Science Fantasy.
¶ Themes
The following is a list of the most common themes found in science-fiction. A lot of them, including some not listed, are found in Galaxy Citizen already. Not all of them will be seen frequently, and some may or may not be restricted for balance and narrative reasons:
- Alien contact
- Alterations of the human body and mind
- Artificial Intelligence
- Collective consciousness
- Cosmology
- Destiny of humanity
- Evolution
- Existentialism
- Eschatology
- The future and former imaginations
- Global catastrophic risk
- History
- Alternate history
- Psychohistory
- Secret history
- Human fears
- Human nature & human psychology
- Identity
- Isolation & alienation
- Language
- Alien languages
- Universal translators
- Military conflicts
- Space warfare
- Weapons in science fiction
- The nature of reality
- Determinism
- Omega Point
- Interpretations of quantum mechanics
- Parallel worlds or universes
- Philosophies and philosophical ideas
- Political ideas & governance
- Religious ideas
- Simulated reality & consciousness
- Sociology and sociobiology
- Technological singularity
- Science fantasy
- Archailect
- Artificial Intelligences
- Androids and Gynoids (aka. Mechanoids)
- Artificial life
- Biological robot, aka. Synthetic (aka. Metanoids)
- Cyborgs
- Robots and humanoid robots
- Replicants
- Simulated consciousness
- Beings of pure mentality
- Characters (example stereotypes)
- The absent-minded professor
- The ‘Golem' (animated artificial anthropomorphic being)
- The ignorant friend
- The mad scientist
- Space pirate
- Super soldier
- Space cowboy
- Space noble
- The Miyazaki antagonist
- The Matsumoto protagonist
- Clones
- Extraterrestrial life
- Hypothetical types of biochemistry
- Alien invasion
- Astrobiology
- Principle of non-interference
- Message from space
- Living planets
- Hive minds
- Infomorphs
- Mutants
- Noosphere
- Shapeshifters
- Superhumans
- Superorganisms
- Symbionts
- UFOs
- Uplifting
- Ancient astronaut hypothesis
- Progressor
- Biohacking and biotechnicians (Biopunk)
- Artificial organs
- Additional or improved senses
- Bio-implants
- Brain transplant
- Cloning
- Exocortex
- Genetic engineering
- Intelligence amplification
- Invisibility
- Life extension
- Cryonics
- Digital immortality
- Mind uploading
- Organ transplantation
- Organlegging (Organ theft)
- Prosthetics
- Memory
- Memory sharing
- Memory erasure and editing
- Mind occupation
- Mind swap
- Mind uploading
- Neural implants
- Psychic phenomena
- Clairvoyance
- Precognition
- Retrocognition
- Telepathy
- Telekinesis
- Paradise engineering
- Resizing
- Shapeshifting
- Teleportation
- Transhumanism and posthumanism
- X-ray vision
- Artificial worlds
- Alien Zoo
- Arcologies
- Cyberspace
- Domed city
- Endemic
- Floating City
- Future of the Earth
- Climate change
- Megacity
- Seasteading and ocean colonization
- Pirate utopia
- Space colonization
- Terraformed planets
- Pantropy
- Space stations and habitats
- Underground city
- Walking city
- Adhocracy
- Anarchism
- Anarcho-capitalism
- Apprenticeship
- Assassination
- Capitalism
- Neo-feudalism (capitalism)
- Privatisation
- Megacorporation
- Evil corporation
- Cognitive liberty
- Communism
- Decentralization
- Dystopias and Utopias
- Totalitarianism
- Ecology
- Environmentalism
- Economics
- Economic inequality
- Eugenics
- Fascism
- Galactic empires
- Legal personality
- Libertarianism
- Militarism
- National security state
- Nepotism
- Pacifism
- Plutocracy
- Proportional representation
- Post-scarcity economy
- Racism
- Regulation of technology
- Revolution
- Slavery
- Socialism
- Technoethics
- Bioethics
- Technophobia
- Terrorism
- Bio-terrorism
- Eco-terrorism
- Theocracy
- Totalitarianism vs. Libertarianism
- Treason
- Wealth inequality and class conflict
- World government
- Zero population growth
- Artificial gravity
- Artificial intelligence
- Asteroid mining
- Astronomical engineering
- Brain-computer interface
- Cloaking device
- Emerging technologies
- Holography
- Resurrection
- Robots
- Self-replicating machines
- Star lifting and stellar engineering
- Stasis device
- Mecha
- Megascale engineering and planetary engineering
- Megastructures
- Dyson sphere
- Molecular manufacturing
- Alien technology
- Virtual reality, mixed reality and augmented reality
- Weapons in science fiction
- Accidental travel
- Colonization of other planets
- Embryo space colonization
- Generation ship
- Interstellar ark
- Uploaded astronaut
- Terraforming
- Space exploration
- Interstellar travel and starships
- Faster than light travel and communications
- Hyperspace
- Hyperdrive
- Warp drive
- Wormholes
- Ansibles
- Close to light speed
- Bussard ramjets
- Much slower than light
- Generation ship
- Sleeper ship
- Space stations
- Teleportation
- Teletransporter
- Portals
- Time travel (forward)