05-30-2017, 01:28 AM
We should probably expand on the idea in its own EG article, as well as provide some history of racial/species/clade relations over the history of the setting.
To expand a bit/propose some ideas around what has already been written:
The early centuries of the OA timeline saw the various social stresses we currently see in RL around issues of race, gender, and sexuality largely resolve themselves or otherwise diminish and/or cease to be an issue. In their place arose a whole set of issues around things like the creation of new minds (AIs), new intelligent species (provolution), and the redesigning of life and in particular humanity via technology (gengineering and cybernetic augmentation). These in turn combined with the political stresses that grew up around the creation of new nation-states and cultures across the solar system. Things sort of came to a head in many respects as part of the Technocalypse.
Things sort of struggled along during the Dark Age, with a mix of conflict and cooperation (often for mutual survival in the face of post-Technocalypse threats) resolving some of these issues and exacerbating others. Eventually the intervention by/alliance with transapients led to the rise of the First Federation and the creation of the First Federation Ontology - which basically created a fundamental philosophy/way of thinking that effectively fixed the earlier conflicts and helped maintain a (semi) coherent society and governing organization across many different types of minds and light-years of distance.
Unfortunately, the First Fed Ontology proved to have limits to how much complexity and distance it could cope with and eventually the First Federation fell. It also had encountered competing ways of thinking (possibly ontologies, possibly memetics) from the megacorps (and possibly the transapients running them) that had also developed ways of maintaining a form of coherent structure in their members while operating across light-years. This led to a number of competing ways of thinking and likely some conflict until the Second Federation Ontology came along and provided a foundation for a civ that could both deal with the still greater complexity that was in play and the greater distances.
Somewhere in there or after there the various Archailects with their various memetics came along and replaced the Sec Fed Ontology with their own way of doing things. There was a certain amount of conflict (various wars) but eventually things shook out to the form (or something like) that we see in Y11k.
Or something like that.
Just some thoughts,
Todd
To expand a bit/propose some ideas around what has already been written:
The early centuries of the OA timeline saw the various social stresses we currently see in RL around issues of race, gender, and sexuality largely resolve themselves or otherwise diminish and/or cease to be an issue. In their place arose a whole set of issues around things like the creation of new minds (AIs), new intelligent species (provolution), and the redesigning of life and in particular humanity via technology (gengineering and cybernetic augmentation). These in turn combined with the political stresses that grew up around the creation of new nation-states and cultures across the solar system. Things sort of came to a head in many respects as part of the Technocalypse.
Things sort of struggled along during the Dark Age, with a mix of conflict and cooperation (often for mutual survival in the face of post-Technocalypse threats) resolving some of these issues and exacerbating others. Eventually the intervention by/alliance with transapients led to the rise of the First Federation and the creation of the First Federation Ontology - which basically created a fundamental philosophy/way of thinking that effectively fixed the earlier conflicts and helped maintain a (semi) coherent society and governing organization across many different types of minds and light-years of distance.
Unfortunately, the First Fed Ontology proved to have limits to how much complexity and distance it could cope with and eventually the First Federation fell. It also had encountered competing ways of thinking (possibly ontologies, possibly memetics) from the megacorps (and possibly the transapients running them) that had also developed ways of maintaining a form of coherent structure in their members while operating across light-years. This led to a number of competing ways of thinking and likely some conflict until the Second Federation Ontology came along and provided a foundation for a civ that could both deal with the still greater complexity that was in play and the greater distances.
Somewhere in there or after there the various Archailects with their various memetics came along and replaced the Sec Fed Ontology with their own way of doing things. There was a certain amount of conflict (various wars) but eventually things shook out to the form (or something like) that we see in Y11k.
Or something like that.
Just some thoughts,
Todd