About Interstellar Bolero
Look into the happenings of a remote corner of the Triangulum Galaxy, where three civilisations spanning nearly 50 solar systems are each trying to find their place in the universe.
When the Vumaroin Hegemony and the Foll Officium made contact, their attempts at diplomacy were first severely hampered first by their extremely different languages, then their very opposed definitions of “diplomacy.” After 10 years, these differences erupted into war. Now, 30 years into the conflict, both the Officium and the Hegemony have discovered a new sapient species, the Ilea, in a solar system previously undetected by both civilisations.
The Foll are delighted to find this new people, who they hope will provide new resources and technology via trade to one-up their enemy. The Vumari see opportunity too, in the form of a group that can be used as a weapon against the Foll.
The Ilea, though new to inter-species interaction, know that they are being used for a war they have no part in, so are playing both sides in the hopes that they can benefit.
What this blog is
Hello! You can call me Mx. Curator (or anything you want, I’m not your mum). Since October of 2022, I’ve been doing some worldbuilding on and off around some ideas I had for sci-fi civilisations with the intent of writing some books set in them. Around a year and a half later, I’ve written 11 pages of actual writing with little chance of writing any more in a hurry, but I still wanted to share my ideas with people, so I created this blog!
In it, I’m going to lay out the information I have about each group: the totalitarian lizards of the Vumaroin Hegemony, the libertarian bird people of the Foll Officium, and the communist tentacle mounds of the Free People of Ila. Initially, my focus is on the political structure of each and how the people within them interact with their respective systems, though as time goes on more and more will be added.
How the blog works
When I make a post, it’ll either be about a certain aspect of each civilisation such as its political structure or key information about their constituent species, some major event that effects one or all of them, or a figure (important or not) from any of the species. I’ll try to link to other relevant posts where I can, but as this expands I may lose track of one or two things.
If you submit an ask, you can either be asking/generally saying something to me, or to a character I’ve described or mentioned. If you’re going to do the latter, please specify which character(s) you’re talking to, and I will write an answer from their perspective. Asks can be about anything from clarification on a point, a question on something I’ve not covered (which might end up being its own post if I think it’s an important enough point), a fun scenario that you want to know the outcome of, or really anything that’s not too personal to me (which I will judge as and when).
Links to get you started
Carrd (contains more information about me and the blog}: coming soon
Overview posts
The Ilea: link
The Vumari: link
The Foll: link
