Stellar Drift
I’ve finally decided on a “name” for the hinted at story that all these posts are set in: Stellar Drift.
The story of the Grand Walking Titan is about beauty, curiosity, and exploration. Should I or anyone else ever write tales set in this universe, those should be the overarching themes.
But filling out the world is a more human narrative: Love, distance, curiosity, heartache, appreciation, and wonder.
Stellar Drift is intended to be a more solitary exploration than Star Trek, a more positive adventure than nuBSG, a less combative journey than Star Wars.
Earth, here, is no more peaceful than the Earth of Stargate, but it is still reaching out into the stars like Star Trek. Out among the stars are those who wonder, who share in the joys of exploration and discovery, those who don’t care for the fights and grandstanding and politicking on Earth.
Stellar Drift is about wanting to go, to see, to share. Each Exploration Cruiser, like the Titan, is a hamlet of those who wonder what is around the next star.
Each crewman has their own history, but what drives them is the need to discover and share.
To anyone who might write in this universe, keep in mind what I’ve said: Stellar Drift should be about discovery, both of the stars and of the self.
While within the confines of this blog is the hinted at and vague story of the Grand Walking Titan and her crew, the journey within Stellar Drift is one for you to tell. Name your ship and her crew, give personality to the AI that helps run her; tell your own story.
The Titan is only one of dozens - or even hundreds - of such exploratory cruisers. Each ship is unique in name and crew, each ship’s AI has its own quirks and personality.
The only thing I ask, should you write within this world, is to remember what I said above: it is a story about beauty, curiosity, love, distance, exploration, heartache, wonder, and appreciation. It is about going, seeing, and sharing. It is about discovery.
(adding to my pinned post)
Space is vast and infinite, even with planet-to-planet teleport gates and Faster-than-Light engines. And even with infinite diversity in infinite combinations, there can still be found repeating patterns; similarities, familiarity in the unknown.
Early spectrography proved mostly right: there were many “Earth-like” worlds, atmospheres close enough to our own that we could breath, unaided and unworried, on their surfaces.
But deeper into our galaxy, as we advanced along the spiral arm, we found “Earths” to be even more common. Imagine, 1-in-20 worlds had life, and 1-in-10 of those looked nearly a mirror of our own world.
Yet even then, Earth–Terra–remained unique. Only Terra held a sapient, sentient species: Humans. After scanning hundreds of worlds–worlds matching, and not, to any in our solar system–we’ve yet to find another species even matching “cave man”.
{The ship “Grand Walking Titan” is tasked with blazing a trail ahead of colony ships, finding worlds most like Terra for humans to settle. One of dozens, she and her crew are the new explorers. The new “Lewis and Clark”, venturing into the “wild west” of the stars.}
((I am of the belief that we will never find anything beyond plants and animals should we ever actually reach other "earth-like" worlds. Humans are completely unique; the only sentient and sapient life))
