okay the next set of notions

[technoir]

so here are a few more basic notions to the idea roling through my head. Basic rules I would follow in fleshing out.

1) There is no utopia. As a related point the world has not gone completely to crap either. In the future of my envisioning the world continues much the way it often has. There are governments made up of people. Some of them are good. Some of them are bad. There are poor and there are rich. The sheer level in difference may be more evident though. Lets face it if you can afford to have your genetic code resequenced so often or beable to fly away in your own space craft, well lets ssay that the earthly concerns more distant. But your average joe still looks for ways to get paid and put food on the table. Powerful corperations exist in this future that own entire worlds where they paid to have them teraformed and all the infrastructure built. Others were settled in more slow fashion and are government controlled. The world our heroes live on has it's colony financed by a corporation.

2)Interstellar travel will be more a result of a discovered fluke in the universe than by warp drives. Points in space when the proper field is applied open up worm holes. These wholes when proper understood allow instanious travel to another one of these way points in space. When in normal space reaction drives still move ships and at relatively slow speeds. It still takes months to travel from one end of the solar system to the other. better than the 21st century to be sure but it still means normal science has restraint.

Comments

[moosea1.livejournal.com]

So, are these worm holes always available? If so, it means that the PCs have some theoretical point of escape. Maybe they only open during event weekends, hence why all the exciting stuff happens during the events (as compared to the rest of the time) because the worm holes have opened.

[technoir.livejournal.com]

the worm wholes in my imagining are a natural result of the gravity well of the star and happen off the eliptic orbit. They are open all the time but most ships take at least a week to reach them. Your average pc is not going to own their own ship capable of opening the worm hole at the way point. Rather corporations and governments own ships with that capability. But transit time is an issue. while worm holes open from way points and allow instanneous transport from system to systme the way points each only go to near by systems as far as any one goes. Lets say you jump from earth to proxima. once there you travel for a week or so to another way point which might reach a few worlds. From them you you travel to another way point and open another worm hole to yet another system. I figure one of the limiting elements to the colony world is actually transit time of about of month before you start getting to "core worlds".