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"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
— Arthur C. Clarke




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Heat death has come, and the cold, dark, unchanging end of the universe has fallen at last. The final curtain call if you will. The inevitable end. Despite this ushering in of absolute desolation, however, civilization has not stagnated nor ceased. If anything, it has not only grown stronger in blatant contradiction of the all-consuming umbra, but reached a zenith the inhabitants of the previous star-filled epoch could scarcely imagine, let alone achieve. Yet here they stand, those few who could stare inevitability dead in the eye and not so much as flinch. It is here in the midst of this endless entropy that you and your people find themselves. Scions of the elder days when the stars still burned bright and planets spun, your might unquestionable and technology incomprehensible to all but the most eldritch of polities and beings.

But be warned however, for you are not alone. Other powers have persevered, and they may wish to put an end to your continued existence if such an outcome proves beneficial to their plans...


Alright, poorly written lore dump aside, what this roleplay/interest check is about is quite simple. The dreaded heat death of the universe has finally come, submerging reality as we knew it in an endless darkness utterly devoid of any useable energy. Contrary to what most scientists of the 21st (and following) centuries theorized, however, sapient civilization did not come to a slow and miserable halt alongside it. In actuality it advanced over the quadrillions upon quadrillions of years, proceeding at such a breakneck pace that entire cultures became unrecognizable overnight, shifting from one zeitgeist to the next until they had become entirely disconnected from what they once were. It is at the helm of one of these grand Entropic Empires that you sit, commanding its mind-bendingly incomprehensible forces in order to bring it ever closer to its mercurial goal, whatever that may be.

When it comes to posting requirements, especially for factions that are essentially composed of whatever overpowered shit you feel like thinking up so long as it is at least tangentially sci-fi related, it's perfectly fine if you keep things brief. Granted, I don't expect to see one-liners being a thing even with rules (and effort) being as lax as this, but entire novels are kind of hard to write for anything on or above Type IV on the Kardashev Scale too. Unless you're Stephen Baxter of course. Anyway, one post a week with whatever quality writing gets the job done. That's it so far as requirements go, and I haven't touched on the rules because I expect every adult capable of intellectual thought here already knows them. The only amendment I'll make is that you should center your factions and their tech around delivering a compelling narrative instead of just building an elaborate way of saying: "I win."

Beyond that there's no map, because it's the heat death, and I've got a barebones sheet (to be altered according to your needs) detailed that I'll post if the OOC goes up. And before you ask, yes, practically any broken science fiction related tech is allowed. You want a TARDIS expy? Boom, you got one. Just be ready to deal with ironing out the mess that time travel will create when you inevitably hop back to change things or reboot the universe. Although, given enough technobabble, anything's possible.

Finally, this is intended to be a pure sandbox. Go nuts.
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>" I don't expect to see one-liners being a thing even with rules (and effort) being as lax as this, but entire novels are kind of hard to write for anything on or above Type IV on the Kardashev Scale too."

I got one:

There's literally no point to the premise of this RP since by the time technology is this advanced, this is well beyond even the dreams of post-scarcity theorists - and thus even the observation of this Heat Death means it either can't be true or that we can give it as much thought as you or I might the day's sunlight.

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>" I don't expect to see one-liners being a thing even with rules (and effort) being as lax as this, but entire novels are kind of hard to write for anything on or above Type IV on the Kardashev Scale too."

I got one:

There's literally no point to the premise of this RP since by the time technology is this advanced, this is well beyond even the dreams of post-scarcity theorists - and thus even the observation of this Heat Death means it either can't be true or that we can give it as much thought as you or I might the day's sunlight.


>To counter, there's no point to any roleplay premise, it's all imaginary and can all be given as much thought as the day's sunlight.

>With that said, you interested?
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>To counter, there's no point to any roleplay premise, it's all imaginary and can all be given as much thought as the day's sunlight.

>With that said, you interested?


>unironically responds with "no u" in 2023
>still asks if they're interested in RPing
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<Snipped quote by Zyx>

>unironically responds with "no u" in 2023
>still asks if they're interested in RPing


>Why not? You're in an interest check, you read it and know that it's about playing with tech beyond human comprehension (and that I myself am very aware of how pointless the premise actually is, but I said I was going to make it anyway and I have). If anything I'd be more inclined to question your self-awareness.
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<Snipped quote by Yam I Am>

>Why not? You're in an interest check, you read it and know that it's about playing with tech beyond human comprehension (and that I myself am very aware of how pointless the premise actually is, but I said I was going to make it anyway and I have). If anything I'd be more inclined to question your self-awareness.


He has a point, which is that anything this far ahead of human comprehension makes the ability of any modern human to conceptualize even a basic conflict to try and do any sort of plot, let alone *politics*. If human civilization has found a way to survive the cosmic apocalypse and keep going, it has addressed any and every material concern that would have otherwise driven politics. Why bother ever with a war over some resources when it can be simply produced from the ion soup left behind, or you can teleport yourself across space and time and be just as well. The cosmic scale as well defeats the purpose of any *spiritual* incentive to be attached to any single place, space faring civilization would have realized the universal consistency of the universe so you may not even be able to fight over atomically stable nebuleas because none are that special, not enough to assert a spiritual abstract relationship to them.

I have tried this several times in sci-fi RPs and they all burn out fast because the premises only present scenarios that solve all current human environmental limitations. Sure you might be able to run an RP with a handful of people interested in the scenario but then run out of steam because it is pointless as even a operatic element. There is nothing to suggest conflict with something so far ahead humanity has achieved the special and magical post-post-scarcity they can defeat entropy.

The entire idea is better off as a Dune setting, where the effect of super far-future technology is solved by going, "feudalistic dynastic Ego" and some human populations being often abandoned and separated from the larger human imperium because Arrakas and Saurdu and planets just that shitty
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<Snipped quote by Zyx>

He has a point, which is that anything this far ahead of human comprehension makes the ability of any modern human to conceptualize even a basic conflict to try and do any sort of plot, let alone *politics*. If human civilization has found a way to survive the cosmic apocalypse and keep going, it has addressed any and every material concern that would have otherwise driven politics. Why bother ever with a war over some resources when it can be simply produced from the ion soup left behind, or you can teleport yourself across space and time and be just as well. The cosmic scale as well defeats the purpose of any *spiritual* incentive to be attached to any single place, space faring civilization would have realized the universal consistency of the universe so you may not even be able to fight over atomically stable nebuleas because none are that special, not enough to assert a spiritual abstract relationship to them.

I have tried this several times in sci-fi RPs and they all burn out fast because the premises only present scenarios that solve all current human environmental limitations. Sure you might be able to run an RP with a handful of people interested in the scenario but then run out of steam because it is pointless as even a operatic element. There is nothing to suggest conflict with something so far ahead humanity has achieved the special and magical post-post-scarcity they can defeat entropy.

The entire idea is better off as a Dune setting, where the effect of super far-future technology is solved by going, "feudalistic dynastic Ego" and some human populations being often abandoned and separated from the larger human imperium because Arrakas and Saurdu and planets just that shitty


>I do concede that he has a point, and I knew going in that this likely wasn't going anywhere given the practical considerations of the "do anything" tech involved. Although, while this might sound a bit hypocritical coming from me, there's better ways of conveying the fact that it is a largely pointless endeavor. Yours, for example, is one such better way. Regardless, I've seen others attempt similar roleplays as well, but yeah, it is likely that it would run out of steam eventually. My initial thought process when making this though was mostly fueled by the desire to spin a tale featuring heavy use of Clarketech combined with the kind of shit that Doctor Who pulls. I mean if that can manage to last for fifty years using time travel, reality bombs, and multiversal escapades, why couldn't a roleplay?

>(Not lasting fifty years, but you know what I mean.)

>I believe making it a Dune kind of setting as you suggest is probably the best bet though. That or making it some sort of sci-fi slice of life or comedic adventure roleplay where the tech takes a backseat to the characters and their shenanigans. I went for NRP off the bat because I felt it might be easier to do in this kind of format initially. That and it was like, 1 AM, and I had already committed myself to finishing the interest check.
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@Zyx

Honestly if you're doing anything at this level of development it's only best for speculative short fiction by one author simply just redoing Utopia again and serves mostly as a vehicle on discourse of your belief on human nature and the ideal society in the event all material wants and needs are addressed and the ideal environment is achieved for all people.
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@Zyx

Honestly if you're doing anything at this level of development it's only best for speculative short fiction by one author simply just redoing Utopia again and serves mostly as a vehicle on discourse of your belief on human nature and the ideal society in the event all material wants and needs are addressed and the ideal environment is achieved for all people.


>Yeah. The more I think about it, the more I realize that's the case.
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