Most technology in Campoestela is carbon-based. Nanotubes, diamond-like structures, etc. This makes spaceships lighter and easier (though not that different, much like carbon fiber airplanes have roughly the same design). But it will also change all sorts of technology in the setting, including buildings, for example.
This is actually nice, as it means that I can get away with all sorts of crazy retro-futuristic architecture and lots of color. In fact, I imagine there will be much industry in carbon planets and asteroids, and people there will be desperate to add colors to their lives. Probably a lot of things reminding of Caminito in Buenos Aires across Human space, I hate the 'everything is chrome/white/steel' look of modern science fiction, people will decorate their living spaces as soon as they have resources to do so.
Things like giant water parks (imagine how fun must that be in 0g) are a reality in space mining comunities, since water as propellant is necessary, and once you get enough water from comets and icy worlds (relatively easy given the gravity) you can spend it in a lot of stuff. In carbon PLANETS, however, to import water from anywhere else must be expensive because of the cost of sending water from orbit. Plants and nature parks are beyond a luxury, forget about pools. There might be carbon-based life, but it's dificult to imagine it without water. They would be vast expanses of coal-like plains, crystalline mountains, perhaps even oceans of oil-like compounds. But no water anywhere.
Industrial planets with all the resources to produce any kind of technology, but without water or nature. That seems a bit dystopian to me.
I know this is a really weird question to ask and you really don’t have to answer it at all, but i notice that you mention that male omegas can be identified at birth and I was wondering how exactly? Sorry if this question is like way too out of pocket (´∀｀*)
Anon: This is for world building
Do you think you can explain how doctors know if a person is an a/b/o when they’re born like the physical characteristic that sets them apart
Hey!
(please keep in mind that I am not a doctor haha, so this might make no sense 😅)
In my AU, doctors do a blood test on babies which helps determine what their secondary gender is. It's about 98-99% accurate, but it can't differentiate between all categories.
It can assign a child into the following categories:
1. Female alpha
2. Male alpha or male beta
3. Female beta or female omega
4. Male omega
This is because male omegas and female alphas have very unique hormones and stuff, while the other two sets closely resemble each other at birth, so the test can't tell.
Past the age of about a year, pups will start to display certain behaviours that often make their secondary gender quite clear, so any mistakes from the blood test don't often have a huge difference.
Obviously, the only foolproof and common way to determine secondary gender is to wait until puberty. Ultrasounds could also definitely be used to determine primary and secondary gender, as male omegas have uteruses while male betas/alphas don't etc.
As per request by pumpkin, its Adult human mantis!! a super rough sketch but it gets the concept across.
I also went off and did a ton of worldbuilidng so theres that under the cut.
So first of all THE HIGHER BEINGS. I was thinking originally this world was occupied by non-human monsters, who had a fuckton of magic and were the origin of higher beings.
Ex) dia originally looked way more monster and dragon
and then alot of them got into a big ol war, until one of them becomes the victor. THis guy, who i am not sure about their design yet. But theyre humanoid, and also has a masked face.
(based off of old angels quite a bit, and its super obvious so the design is just a concept for now)
After the ‘Victor’ comes out on top as the clear winner of the goddamn war, they basically go “YOU FUCKED UP A PERFECTLY GOOD WORLD IS WHAT YOU DID. LOOK AT IT. ITS A BURNT ROCK NOW”. And more or less manhandles the rest of them into recreating life on the planet. And also makes all the beings on the planet humanoid, as a treat.
(”because i won goddamnit at least let me have this”)
And thats how you get the start of higher beings? Theyre all humanoid and the masks were used to anchor souls into these new bodies, and give them access to magic/mana?
The masks eventually become obsolete, and become a medium for magic as souls and flesh become intermingled and anchored to eachother.
ALSO THE FATE SISTERS. This part is subject to change depending on how the three of us (me, pumpkin, nd KC) change up the fate sisters’ dynamics.
(third one yet to be designed but theres three of them)
Originally the three of them did NOT get along?? They were born around the same time but they were also born into a war environment and just. Were constantly at each other’s throats.
And then the ‘Victor’ comes by and goes, hey u three work together to make ppl for me please thanks. And just. Kinda lumps em together and makes em work. Which, they dislike.
Theyre not allowed to actively fight each other and also have to make a single group of ppl (not one group for each of them) so they just, kinda compete in giving favor to the strongest and just. kinda showing off to each other like my favorite is stronger than ur favorite.
That leads to a pretty combat oriented culture for the mantis-group. Eventually the ‘victor’ drops in to see what they were doing, found the three sisters being a TERRIBLE influence, and just. NOPE IM ASSIGNING YOU THREE TO SOMETHING DIFFERENT.
And just, kind of, takes the three of em away. Which leads to myths about the mantis’ higher beings leaving for ‘a better place’ and whatnot. The legend changes as time goes on, like the three sisters merged into one higher being that ‘ascended’ or that there were 4 sisters that ascended (the previous merged version becoming a 4th sister). The most recent version of there being 4 sisters that together created a ‘heaven’ and ascended, leaving behind the thrones and altar that will serve as a road to lead their people to this ‘heaven’.
Myths go all over the place as it gets older.
Meanwhile the 3 sisters get assigned to being the fates, which is basically paperwork hell. They just, sit and record stuff and make sure theres no weird inconsistencies and prevent the start of another wide scale war like before.
Its boring as FUCK but it also makes them all work together and slowly they get along. Theyre old and know each other for too long. They still fight sometimes though. Siblings.
Meanwhile new higher beings appear often. Theyre either made because of heavy belief, or they exist in the first place and gain belief. It goes kinda visa versa. The Pale King is a newer one. The radiance and the void is both pretty fuckin old, theyre from when the war was going on im p sure.
The void is older than all of them i think? and cannot really be communicated with. Maybe caused a ton of chaos and is too strong to be left alone, so had the radiance assigned to them as a seal. It clearly didnt work.
ALSO MANTIS VILLAGE.
was figuring out more cultural stuff and this was touched on by the fate sisters, but was thinking about masks and their cultural importance to them. As seen in the Mantis sketch theres 3 stages of masks?
The first one is the one your parents or guardian makes for you as a child. Its rounded and distinct shape indicates to everyone else that you are a child, and is meant to be protected. Someone else is responsible for your actions, and you cannot fight the kid. This is a babey.
In the first stage mask kids are taught? reading and writing, basic exercise nd stuff. Things to help them develop mentally and physically. Fighting is technically not allowed, but the kids fight amongst themselves anyways.
At the 2nd stage you’re deemed old and maybe mature enough to learn combat. At this stage no one is allowed to actually fight u seriously other than your peers, but sparing and combat is allowed. You make your weapon then, and the 2nd mask is usually self made following a template.
Weapons are made out of chunks of pale ore (found in a specific place). You kind of just, break it off and then chip and sharpen it. Weapons are made by the wielder and changes over time with them. Weapons tend to maintain their original shape, so they tend to maintain a pretty organic shape. Theres alot less ‘forging’ involved in the process.
(mantis has two, and theyre both pretty rough at the edges. Carvings and such are added as you age as you like, usually to signify and important event)
The third mask indicates adulthood. Each person dons their 3rd mask at different times, whenever they personally feel ready. Usually someone else, a mentor figure or some equivalent, tells the wearer when they feel the to-be adult is ready for a 3rd mask, but the choice is ultimately up to the wearer.
The 3rd mask has no template and is completely up to the wearer, and is usually decorated by loved ones. The symbols on the mask are typically pale and hard to see, and usually have some sort of deeper meaning to the wearer and whoever carved it.
Once the 3rd mask is donned, the wearer is considered an adult, and is permitted to wear armor. This means that in all combat (other than mutually agreed upon instances) there will be no holding back. Armor indicates people can come at you with full strength during spars, because the armor will give you the leeway you need to survive. If that makes sense.
IN MANTIS’ CASE.
Mantis probably only dons the 3rd mask when they leave or is close to leaving Hallownest. Their mask was carved by themselves, although there are a few large nicks in it from when they sparred with Cyrill and Ruby. Theyre left on there on purpose.
(Not that cyrill or ruby know that its on purpose, or the significance of it being left there. Theyre both just waiting for mantis to bring it up again, as a way to guilt them both into doing something)
Putting on armor is a pretty ceremonial thing probably, but probably done by Mantis in private. A short small ceremony. Its probably a little sad, cause its supposed to be a big ol ceremony but they have to do it alone. lmao.
Mantis is pretty traditional, despite not really buying into their culture’s religion. They still kind of, like the traditions themselves, and so keeps following them. Out of respect for those that raised them and also just. As traditions, rather than their religious aspects.
Probs heavily dislikes a lot of the religious aspects of their culture probably.
Alright, some Ferengi world building time. Because I gotta get my thoughts together for this fanfic.
Ferengi females aren't allowed to have bank accounts.... But surely they've got all the free time to do shopping and stuff.
So heres the thought.... They need permission slips for buying things.
There are different levels of them. Like, sometimes they can only buy a specific thing, or sometimes they can only shop at specific stores, or they can only spend a certain amount of money.
Each bank account opened on Ferengenar comes with a very dfficult to forge seal, and the male Ferengi who owns the account can just write a note and stamp it with the seal.
More liberal households on Ferengenar the seal is kept in a place anyone can access it. In the more conservative ones the male head of house keeps it in a safe or something.
Part of Grand Nagus Zek's social justice movemt is, after giving females the rights to own bank accounts, is abolishing the whole need for permission slips to go shopping thing.
Revisited the funky leopard at lunch, sketching out reference for myself this week. It shows up in the comic briefly so I've got some design decisions to make.
Latest entry in my D&D worldbuilding writeups. I’m actually using this one in tonight’s session. Been super busy lately, and have had no bandwidth to really even think.
Anyway, the scenario I have currently is a bureaucracy full of dopplegangers. Dopplegangers, despite being shape shifters, see human behavior as completely foreign. Depending on their ability to manipulate subtleties of their own appearance, emoting, communication cues, and voice inflection are completely foreign, which led to them eventually losing a war with the surface dwellers years ago- It took dopplegangers years of training to be able to mimic a human, and even then, their spies were rooted out, and they were exiled to the underdark, where they lived in squalor and desperation in the darkness. However, they uncovered an opening to a bureaucratic archive kept by a gnome founded bureaucracy.
This gave them an opening. Quickly taking over all the posts in the archives (The archive workers were pretty odd to begin with, so having someone with strange social habits and a hard time communicating wasn’t too much of a stretch for them) they began studying all the paperwork that was produced, attempting to understand human behavior better.
Ironically, they did- given that the gnomish bureaucracy machine kept meticulous notes of just about everything that occurred within it’s pervue, the dopplegangers became experts at handling the archives, and gleaning information- they even started venturing to the higher levels of the bureaucratic complex to learn more.
At this point, they have more or less forgotten their hopes of returning to the surface, at least the vast majority of them have- they are happy to just learn about human civilization and socialization, and become part of the bureaucracy. As the lower level inhabitants of this massive bureaucratic organization, they are well fed, taken care of, and even accepted- Once it became apparent that the entirety of the archives department had been replaced with dopplegangers, the response was of interest rather than any alarm- “Oh, okay, so that’s why efficiency is way up,” said Kendric Stanciltree, the current head of the bureaucratic complex.
And so the dopplegangers continue to work in this underground bureaucratic complex, pouring through piles and piles of paperwork to understand larger trends in human behavior.
Where things become complicated is the small faction of old dopplegangers, who remember the way things were before. They mean to retake the surface, and push to use the dopplegangers position of masters of a vast archive of surface dweller bureaucracy to teach themselves modern socialization. The ironic side effect of this has been a schism group of younger dopplegangers, who in their rage at the surface dwellers have decided to instead sabatage the bureaucracy, adding an extra digit in a key place which causes everything to grind to a stop. This of course has had a huge backlash, as the rest of doppleganger society has identified these willful sabateurs of paperwork as heretics, and have forced them into hiding, where they can only hope to secretly add a digit here or there, but having very few opportunities given the increased surveillance.
Surface dwellers who visit the doppleganger levels are treated as gods, and are constantly asked to do ‘surfacer’ things. Very often what was meant to be a short trip to send down a paperwork correction turns into a week trying to recite every single song you know, engage in all kinds of conversation about minutia, and do demonstrations on how to shake hands, play a friendly game, or have a pleasant dinner party.
You know, assuming Neopia Central is the focal point of the Neopian calendar, that would imply that Northern Hemisphere seasons on Earth are roughly equivalent to Northern Hemisphere seasons on Neopia.
This means that Yooyuball is a winter sport, as Altador is clearly in Neopia's Southern Hemisphere. This means that during June, it is wintertime in Altador.
