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The Lone Horizon (also called Lone Horizon) is a worldbuilding project written by Lupe1512. It is centered on the Milky Way and its satellites, exploring the countless biospheres, civilizations, systems, and worlds the galaxy has produced from its birth eons ago all the way to the present year, 8,000 CE. As such, The Lone Horizon is chiefly a work of science fiction, but has more than enough room to encompass multiple literary genres.
Core Principles
- Contribution: For now, Lupe allows only herself to contribute directly to The Lone Horizon (i.e. she is the only person who can legitimately add content to it). All forms of indirect contribution are welcomed, but whether they are canonized or not depends on her approval—with the exception of correctional edits.
- Realism: Many of The Lone Horizon's biospheres and technologies will try to conform to real-life plausibility. This is more of a guideline than a strict rule; creative liberties will be taken.
- Tone: Sensitive topics like genocide, discrimination, and trauma will be addressed as part of the project's exploration of galactic societies and astropolitics. At the same time that it will treat them seriously, it will acknowledge the comfort of the reader and never go so far as to make its content explicit.
- Decentralization: In interstellar scales, a single civilization will be either alone or within a cluster of civilizations, be these foreign or not. Empires may control as much as a significant portion of a galactic arm, but it is impossible for them to outright conquer the galaxy.
Settings
- Pax Terrestris – After a third global conflict, Earth enters the Great Peace, an era of unprecedented peace and justice. Despite its accomplishments, it ultimately ends in another, more devastating war called the Great Armageddon.
- Broken Earth – The Great Armageddon depopulates large chunks of Earth and destroys every civilization on the planet. Earthen humans are isolated from the rest of their kind for nearly four thousand years; billion of them fall prey to radioactive poisoning, starvation, and wars over the few resources they have left. At the same time, Earth heals from millennia of anthropogenic harm, transforming into a mirror of its neolithic self.
- Vangelia – Humanity begins to establish colonies across interstellar space. Initially, it lies under the repressive Union of Vangelia, but following a civil war, the egalitarian Federation of Vangelia assumes the role of human nation-state.
Trivia
- The Lone Horizon previously revolved around the Milky Way and Andromeda, a fact for which it was called "The Dual Horizon."