2. Project Overview
I have some ideas for a fictional world (ie Middle
Earth, Star Wars galaxy, etc.)
At this point, no specific plot, storyline or characters
would be developed, only a world, its history, and its
general contents
The project would be dynamic, taking the shape of the
contributors interests and building off each others
ideas to create new ones
The following is just to introduce the general concept,
and throw some ideas in the pot to get you thinking.
Everything is just a draft, nothing is set in stone yet.
3. General Timeline
I. A technologically advanced civilization exists
II. The civilization is wiped out
III. New forms of life emerge, evolving with the
technological remnants in the environment
IV. Some kind of intelligent societies form which do
not understand the technology which proceeded
them, but learn to use it and revere it as “magic”
4. Imagine time as an hourglass, the past at the top, flowing
into the future. This scenario tips the hour glass upside
down. What we consider to be futuristic (technology) is
in the past, and what we associate with the past (village
life, belief in “magic”, etc) is this world’s present/future.
•Natural evolution
•Moss-covered ruins
•Ancient artifacts
•Mummies
•Stone huts
•Mythology
•Arcologies/future cities
•Genetic engineering
•Nanotechnology
•Cryonic freezing
•Nuclear waste/mutagens
•Mutagen/engineering-
influenced evolution
•Symbiotic nano-life
•Moss-covered arcologies
•Cryo-freezed “mummies”
•Nano-material huts
•Nanotech artifacts
•Mythology based on
“ancients”, robots, etc.
•Genetically enhanced
tribes and villages
History History
Present Present
Great
catastrophe
turns back
the clock
5. Possible Settings
Here’s a few options we have on how our world will relate
to Earth:
The intelligent, ancient race is us humans on Earth
Humans settle another planet (maybe one of
multiple), and the catastrophe and following evolution
occurs there, not necessarily wiping the advanced
civilization out completely
This all occurs on a planet separate from Earth, with a
species that are not human (though likely similar)
6. Proposed Positions
Blase: Chief of Development
Ryan: Chief of Space & Geography
Petemos: Chief of Time and History
7. Our world is preceded by a
technologically advanced
civilization
8. Genetic engineering
DNA computing
Molecular nanotechnology
DNA nanotechnology
Artificial intelligence
Self-assembling machines
Preferably no time travel
Preferably no alien contact
9. We can create the history and political
geography of the technological civilization
which will influence the future, leaving behind
its remnants as ancient ruins
Ideas:
• Highly populated superstructures (arcologies)
• Biological/genetic architecture (houses that live &
grow)
• High-speed rail systems
• Post-scarcity society
• Some images to get your imagination going…
10.
11. Human enhancement
• Clones, genetic enhancements
• Life extension
Artificial intelligence
• Robots
Combinations
• Uploaded consciousness, human minds in robot
bodies
• Cyborgs, AI enhanced humans
Remnants, preserved into post-doomsday
world
• Cryonics
12. Think about how any of the previous beings may react
with run-of-the-mill humans (Wiki)
They may attempt to destroy humans, being the very
cause of the apocalypse (ie Cybernetic revolt)
They may be superior in intelligence to humans, but
benevolent, creating the technologies which we
previously mentions and serving as guardians of
humanity
Some of these technologies (cloning, genetic
engineering, robots) may be illegal in certain
countries/regions, leading to one country being clone-
based and the other robot-based for example
14. Doomsday Event
Either naturally or social caused
Preferably destroying civilization, but not totally
destroying the structures and technology
Fate of humans
Possibly wiped out, leaving behind the seeds for new
intelligent life
Possibly a few remaining, restarting primitive
civilizations
Either already enhanced, or using enhancements to
survive and evolve
15. Possible Catastrophes
Ecological, either man-made or naturally
occurring
Must not be so catastrophic as to destroy the
biosphere
Nuclear, chemical or biological
war/terrorism/accident
Pandemic, possibly natural or engineered
Rebellion of non-human intelligence (ie
Cybernetic revolt)
Etc, there’s plenty of possible scenarios
16. SECOND EVOLUTION
The remaining technology is integrated into the natural
process of evolution, producing “supernatural” creatures
17. MYTHS AND MONSTERS BECOME REAL
Old, contained genetic experiments escape and
intermix and evolve with natural life
Remnant genetic implants stumbled upon by plants &
animals and fused together
DNA nanotechnology, DNA computing mutates and
evolves on its own
Radiation, nuclear waste and other mutagens may
influence evolution
Life evolves in accordance with its technological
environment, with symbiotic relationships and
ecologies made up of interacting life and machines
19. The ancient cities remain to be seen by the new
civilization
They may consider them cursed, witnessing people
dying or mutating from technologies they don’t
understand
They may re-inhabit them, using them as resources
and shelter for their new civilization
Recently evolved monsters and beasts may inhabit
them
They may be holy sites, where the gods (robots,
cyborgs, whatever) rest
20. The new people may find “magic” items left by the
ancients
They may use genetic or cybernetic implants to survive
or gain power
Nanotech smart materials, or seeds for biological
architecture may be gathered for building
Nanotech utility fog may serve as tools, weapons and
armor which can change shape and transform, possibly
even directed by the will of the user
Medical nanobots may be used by shamans for healing
21. The mythologies of the new peoples will likely revolve
around the mysterious structures, technologies, and
possibly other intelligent beings that exist in their
world
AIs may remain and take a role as the “caretakers” of
the humans and/or post-humans, possibly being seen
as gods
22. Whatever post-humans or intelligence making up this
new civilization had to survive alongside genetically
enhanced and/or mutated beasts, so they too may
have natural extraordinary “magic” abilities encoded
into their DNA
Perhaps the “magic abilities” that helped people to
survive are not passed down genetically, but implanted
by some means. The ones fortunate enough to find
these ancient magical implants may serve as guardians
of society to protect them from the beasts outside