Well I've gotten cracking on my own NS. Not finished yet, but hopefully I'll manage to have it up by tomorrow. It'd be nice if someone could explain to me in somewhat clearer terms just what kind of technology we're looking at here, since we have people running the gambit of technology (from "Yeah we just figured out fission" to "We are literally AIs") I want to get an idea of just would be considered unacceptable in terms of standard sci-fi tech. Stuff that writers include so they don't need to explain anything like antigravity, just so I don't end up making my empire either pathetically incompetent or literal gods among the stars. Because I'm putting unnecessary detail into my tech and literally everything else.