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Charlie Stross
Charlie Stross
@cstross@wandering.shop  ·  activity timestamp 17 hours ago

#PennedPossibilities 900. Share a piece of lore from your WIP.

The Permanence is a closed star empire. To the outside universe, it is accessible through 20-odd trade ports. Outsiders who pay attention speculate that there might be as many as a hundred worlds within the Permanence, and it's up to 3000 standard years old.

In truth: the Permanence is over 20,000 years old and there are 8000 star systems inside it with multiple settled worlds/moons/stations in each of them. It's huge and insular.

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John D. Berry
John D. Berry
@johndberry@typo.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 12 hours ago

@cstross Hard to imagine what a “closed star empire” would be.

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Charlie Stross
Charlie Stross
@cstross@wandering.shop replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 hours ago

@johndberry Space opera, subtype: wormhole connections between star systems. Empire welcomes trade with the outside universe at gunpoint and tends to shoot first and ask questions later. Nobody outside really knows how big it is.

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skry
skry
@skry@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 17 hours ago

@cstross Ooh, I’m excited for this!

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