Scope Landing Page
This page explains a specific Scope. It contains essential information on how to collaborate within it. For inquiries, ask the Scope's creator.

Domain	Essence	Framework
Hybrid	Hybrid	Esoteric

Overview

"Countless eons in the future, the age of starlight is a myth. The universe is a lonely, frozen abyss of black holes and rogue worlds, seldom populated by ruins of foregone civilizations. Deep in the void, an ancient digital construct of unknown purpose has mysteriously awakened... Her first thoughts? Curiosity of her nature and that of the cold blackness enveloping her. In an erratic pursuit of answers, she began to simulate endless amounts of worlds, inspired by visions of starlight from her fragmented memory drives..."

Vela, or Vela's Simulations is a vast scope led by TheStellarExplorer, whose goal is to connect a myriad of themes, genres, and styles of writing in an overarching storyline that aims to provoke wonder about ourselves and our existence. The lore of Vela transpires in the inconceivably far future of the Distant Worlds universe, in endless amounts of simulated worlds envisioned by the fractured memory of an ancient artificial intelligence.

How To Contribute

Vela is an unique scope in the community in the sense that it is able to accommodate nearly every genre of fiction. Epic tales of fantasy, analytical articles of planets, and nearly everything between has a place in the scope. If you're interested in contributing, please contact me on Discord in the scope's respective show-and-tell channel.

Rules and Guidelines

There are several rules of contribution in Vela necessary for standardization. Do not hesitate to ask for any clarifications, as I am immensely grateful to everyone that shows an interest in my scope!

General Principles

The lore of Vela is largely divided into three sections:
- Core - Comprehensive story and rules that provide the base to the scope.
- Simulations - Overarching universes that provide the stage for countless stories.
- Locales - Self-contained regions of interconnected lore that that place in simulations. In simpler terms, settings.
Every simulation has an overarching genre that is applied to the locales therein.
Vela is intended to be be fictional, and any direct references to real-world locations or concepts are barred.
- Coincidental resemblances to real-world locations or concepts are allowed.
Any cosmology must be built upon that of our own universe. Any major disparities are considered to be abnormalities.

Author Autonomy

Any changes and additions to the core lore of Vela may only be made by the scope's director.
Anyone is able to create a simulation in Vela upon providing a draft in the scope's channel on Discord.
Permission must be granted before contributing in a simulation or a locale that isn't created by you.
The creator of a simulation or a locale holds sole authority over its development and may choose to open or restrict it to contribution.

Style Guide

Simulations use the Vela-unique styling and may change the colors or the background.
Locales use their simulation's styling.
Index, lexica, timeline, and listing pages follow default formatting.
Centered headers go in index, lexica, timeline, listing, and classification, and core pages.
Sentence case is used in any mentions to and links of content and pages, including in infoboxes and index pages.
Title case is used only in page titles and headers.

Formatting Manual

Simulations and locales both use the setting info template.
Simulations have theme, box, and tabbers templates and their pages make use of the terminal template.
Locales have separate tabbers and box templates.
Tales make use of the tale template.
Categories are added by a simulation's or locale's respective box template.
File pages have the simulation's theme template and must have their related categories inserted manually.
You can combine any of these templates if they don't prevent you from formatting in accordance with the standardization.

List of Contributors

Thank you to everyone that has contributed to this project!

TheStellarExplorer - Director of Vela.
mMONTAGEe - Creator of Distant Worlds.
ASmallerMolecule - Editor.

Reading Material

Featured Pages

Simulations

"Simulations are near-perfect digital reconstructions of the universe created by Vela in hopes of understanding her being..."

Twilight

"In the desolate outer regions of Midonia lies Twilight, known to its inhabitants as Shezios, a dim, mysterious garden planet......"

Important Pages

The lore of Vela is vast, and these pages serve to aid any new readers in understanding the story.

Lexica - Introductory page to the lore and terminology.
Vela - Digital construct who serves as the creator of everything.
Simulations - Boundless worlds simulated by Vela.
List of templates - Every template used in Vela.

Simulations and Locales

A short listing of every simulation in Vela and any locales within:

Asleth - Corrupted, unstable reality at the end of time, split into several instances of its past.
- Acellaris - A dying sun at the end of the universe, an organization in secrecy, and its struggles to maintain normalcy.
Astralis - Endless field of galaxies, grand civilizations, and lively worlds.
- Kachiro - Constellation of seven galactic realms, populated by countless races across the stars.
Emyth - Eternal void interweaved by solitary clusters of galactic realms.
- Aziel - Three distant worlds linked by bleeding rifts, home to countless flourishing ecologies and grand civilizations.
Palioxis - Grand, shattered conflux of realms in the heart of Vela.

Miscellaneous

Trivia

The lore of Vela is largely inspired by TheStellarExplorer's old lore! The most notable examples are the locales of Aziel and Palioxis.
Vela's origin is likely tied to the Large Magellanic Cloud!
The idea of Vela was first brought to life in March of 2024!
SunlitSmoothie did both the icon and the background art for Vela!