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Just like Theonosis is capable of being the setting for any fantasy story, we can make a science fiction universe that can be the setting for any story. The level of technology can vary in science fiction settings, as can the number and kinds of non-human species around. We can get around this by designating particular galaxies as "human-only", "human-any alien", "human-certain aliens", etc, and add levels of technology and civilization requirements as needed. So if some people want to do something more like Firefly (humans only, advanced tech is available but mostly out of reach), there can be a galaxy with those requirements, and if others want a more advanced, multi-species Star Trek-like galaxy, we can have one of them too. We can assume humans have spread to pretty much every galaxy, because almost every science fiction setting includes humans, but of course some galaxies may or may not have any knowledge of or connection to Earth.

I suggest we say that humanity on Earth has risen and fallen several times (as in civilization destroying itself, humanity barely surviving then re-inventing technology), and each time humans have sent out colonizing ships to other galaxies. That way there can be humans from different eras and technological levels in each galaxy. There can be a fleet of starships that Earth has "just now" sent out again to meet these colonies and see what's out there, thus the wiki is the data being collected by these ships. That would mean any science fiction novel, movie, etc, could be explained as data collected by the ships, even if you want to write about a distant, very primitive system with no connection to an advanced ship, you could write your novel and put on the wiki that it was collected by an anthropologist studying the primitive system. In this way everyone's works could be part of the same project, even if people want to write about vastly different science fiction settings.

This would also allow a possibly interesting role-playing game for science fiction authors. You sign up and get to make a character who is the captain of a small squad from this fleet of ships. You write a book or whatever that tells of some exploits, which gets you "promoted" to bigger and bigger ships and larger and larger crews. We could have collaborative assignments, meaning shared missions between people's characters and their crews, and storylines that affect multiple crews in various galaxies. Of course, you wouldn't have to play this game, you could just jump write in and write a novel about a large ship or whatever without going up in level, but I think it would be fun to have a somewhat organized game as an option.

This proposal would even allow for people to make galaxies that have parameters that exclude the whole fleet-of-humans-on-ships idea. We could say that 100 million years ago there was a completely different interplanetary civilization, and the fleet is just now finding and translating (possibly untrue) records of it. Whole new sub-settings could be spun out as occurring far in the past, including galaxies with no humans at all, or galaxies where there is magic. This way the wiki could broadly accommodate almost any science fiction story, even ones that contradict the wiki itself.

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