| Domain | Essence | Framework |
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Gravity is a suggestion.
Description
Set just over 500 years from now, Outbound is a collection of tales set within the Solar System. Its history, extrapolated from our own, spans the development of Humanity into a space-faring race. Outbound focuses solely on the Solar System, with other star systems having little bearing on the stories of Outbound. Interstellar colonies and nations, light years away from each other, are unable to band together in any meaningful capacity.
Collaboration
This scope is currently not open to public collaboration, though that may change in the future. If you have ideas, art, or stories you wish to contribute to the world of Outbound, do not hesitate to send a message to my Usertalk page.
Recommended reading
Welcome to Origo
After a decades-long cruise between the stars, a passenger emerges from suspended animation in the Solar System.
Day One
Day Two
The Big Three Factions
Most of the Human population is divided into three factions: the United, the Independent Conglomerate, and the Epoch. Together, these factions control most of the territory and the resources in the Solar System.
- United Planetary Factions (2277-), 263yr
- Mercury
- Venus
- Earth (Partial)
- Jupiter
- Saturn (Partial)
- Uranus
- Independent Conglomerate (2180-), 360yr
- Mars
- Neptune
- Pluto, Charon
- The Epoch (2483-), 57yr
- Earth
- America
- East Europe
- Saturn
- Ring system
- Space stations (From surface to 280,440km pericrone)
- Earth
Eras
The Space Race (1900s)
A period in history marked by Humanity's first leap into the stars. The first human footsteps are laid down on a celestial body besides Earth.
The Stagnation Era (2000s)
The result of a lack of political engagement with space and adjacent technologies, the first basic manned returns to the Moon did not occur until the middle of the century.
Core Colonisation Age (2100s)
The inner planets see advanced colonisation as the nations of Earth with an interest in space travel consolidate their space agencies and resources into achieving permanent habitation of other planets. Mars is the first to reach a population of 1,000,000 as advances in technology make inhabitation more comfortable.
Peripheral Colonisation Age (2200s)
The most important milestone of the millennium, fusion rockets allow humanity to explode into the Peripheral System with travel times to the peripheral planets reducing from several months to a few weeks. The United Planetary Factions is formed to organise the outflux of Humanity from Earth and oversee the nations of the Solar System. Dyson Swarm Lucifer allows the energy of the Sun to be harvested with extreme efficiency and almost unconstrains the limit of Humanity's energy demand.
Post Colonisation Age (23-2500s)
This age is marked by rapid technological developments as energy consumption becomes uninhibited. Novel and exotic technologies such as the Ring Drive are developed with the near-unrestricted resources at Humanity's disposal.