Waaaaay late to this trend, but it’s whatever
So there was a bunch of Earth Is Space Australia stuff going around that got me thinking. So, like any writer, I began to worldbuild (this is what I do for fun).
So I now have a growing EU and so on. Here’s a bit of what I’ve got so far.
Earth got c+ spaceflight about eight hundred years ago. We’re seen as a child race, but we made one major contribution to galactic society: quite by accident, we created the first and only artificial intelligence.
Prisma, as it named itself, became the progenitor of an entire race of synthetic consciousnesses, often referred to as syncons. They are not artificial, since they were offspring, not inventions, but they do live in computers. But the thing is, they aren’t tools. They’re people. They might run the systems of a starship, but they get paid for it and have terms to their contract. They serve tours of duty, rather than being integral to the ship. They are citizens, with their own society and their own particular way of interacting with the rest of the CSU (Central Species Union) and the CA (Clade Alliance).
Prisma is one of the most influential public figures in the galaxy. It (the preferred pronoun for the majority of syncons) has business interests in every race clade and every governmental structure. Few people realize just how much economic clout Prisma has; those who do know do their very best to be friends with it.
