Yearly-Sci-Fi-Ideas

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I'm pretty sure this is a well-trodden idea, but it's always really cool when a setting has a sort of "magic" which is just super advanced technology that's just mysteriously on the world.

Like there are plenty of reasons why it might be there, maybe the world as it is now was fully at this level of technology, but then some sort of cataclysmic event caused the tech to be lost forever and the world to revert into a far less advanced state.

And hey maybe you could have like one person from an area that's more technologically advanced than the majority of the world slowly come to understand that "hey hang I'm just interfacing with a really advanced machine what the hell."

Oh also you can have old traditions and rituals passed down from history actually just be easy to maintain/use/protect these ancient pieces of technology

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I think it's cool to have magic and tech mixed together.

Like having cool sci-fi devices (metaphorically) wrapped around and encasing some kind of ultra-powerful magical artefact channelling its power through the tech so it can be used by a non-magic user would be real neato to see.

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I think that it could be pretty funny if fantasy things were being looked at by some sci-fi-ass alien observers.

Like I bet the reactions to seeing someone resurrect a massive army of skeletons to fight an army of giants and dragons and wizards while hovering around the planet in an extremely sci-fi spaceship would be quite funny in an absurd contrast sorta way.

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Maybe you could have some weird scary otherworldly space gods in your fantasy setting just be some bizarrely powerful aliens, who are using those who worship them to bolster their power which they will use for cosmos-spanning schemes.

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I think it's cool when aliens disguise themselves and help out with the people in a present-day-like world.

Not like in a manipulating and shaping the world from the shadows way, in an "Oh I like this place but people would probably freak out if they saw an alien so I'll help out secretly."

Then idk you could have nastier aliens pop up and be evil jerks openly so the secret aliens have to find a way to deal with them.

Maybe having to choose between using their alien abilities to help out while revealing their identities, or keeping their abilities and identities hidden.

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It is well known that you can have wizards in space, the most popular sci-fi franchise of all time is about wizards in space, this is merely a reminder that you can have those spell-casting freaks dotted all about the stars.

Other types of magic user can be there too obviously.

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Something I like to see in sci-fi is the presence of some kinda set of rules that dictate how certain sets of actions such as conflict are performed.

Example

Large Scale wars are banned

Weaponised groups are for personal defence only

All conflict must be settled in small-scale localised battles

Nuclear destructive weapons are banned

Fusion generators are allowed for size class 5 and smaller vehicles only

AI weapons are banned

Remote weapons are banned

And then, of course, you can have various groups skirt around or disobey these rules.

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Have some kinda evil and fucked geometric shape floating in space.

And you better have that evil shape do some scary and messed up shit to anything it comes into contact with.

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Big planet-spanning structures are cool.

Large structures reaching out from a planet into space and then touching back down on the planet could look pretty nice and dramatic.

Maybe you could also have them be linked (non-physically) to some other large orbiting structures like some cool rings or space settlements.

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You know fortresses? You know how they can't move around because fortresses are just fancy armoured locations.

Well if you build a fortress on an asteroid you can strap some thrusters on that bad boy and then have it move around and if you then slap some big weapons on it it can be used offensively.

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Thinking about the whole "Do robots have souls?" question thing and reaching the ascendent conclusion that actually robots asking "Do humans have souls?" is the more logical question.

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Big fan of cyborgs, would love to be one and transcend the limits placed on me by my body.

But also we live in a hell world so that's probably not gonna happen/be reserved only for rich people/gonna be messed up and result in a lot of deaths due to planned obsolesces.

Anyway! what if there was a cyborg who after being made into one was a bit sad about it.

Like not in a "woe is me I am no longer human" way, in a "hmm this body feels wrong to exist in sorta way" or perhaps the body could be technically owned by a corporation meaning that the cyborg no longer feels as though they own their own body.

Oh, or you could go full Kamen Rider and have their body be modified by an evil organisation for the explicit purpose of committing horrific violence against the innocent, so they then have to struggle with the feelings of being made into a living weapon and how isolating that would probably be.

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Space is soooooooooo big, so I think to transport people across it with any degree of speed ships should be blasted across that distance by giant mega space cannons.

Although, ships might not handle being shot out like that well, so maybe load them into some kinda giant pod chamber holding device thing first that keeps them safe and secure as they're getting shot out to some other place.

Also, there should be some kinda capture device that stops the pods so that the ships actually get to stop after they've been blasted across the cosmos meaning they don't just fly out into the pitch-black void beyond.

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Here's a useful visual method for differentiating your Sci-Fi mecha from your fantasy ones.

In fantasy have their wings be physical and made of either tangible materials such as metal or inexplicably big feathers or exoskeleton, or out of the classical elements such as fire water, or air.

In sci-fi settings have the big wings be made of vast spans of bright colourful light as a part and have them be incorporated into some sorta advanced flight or weapons system.

Now you may ask "what about in science fantasy settings?" well you see my answer to that is very simple, you-

I flee the scene leaving this question unanswered one which you may discover the answer to yourself

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Hey. You know what rules? Giant space beasts, big fuck off kaiju from the cosmos with the ability to ravage and destroy worlds with their mere presence.

So maybe you could have that in your thing if you want, maybe have a space team try and figure out how to stop one from crashing into their home planet or something.

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You can have ghosts in space.

You can have an inordinate amount of ghosts in space.

You can have a simply shocking amount of ghosts in space, wandering about annoying the living with their phantasmal actions.