Feel free to comment on the root of the thread or reply to any of the posts.

Rather than me clogging this community with my nonsense, I’m making a single unified thread for the Lonely Galaxy. Most of this will be reposted from the corresponding megathread on the CBB forum[1].

Biology

Humanity

Tech

Xenoergonomics

Politics and Economics

It’s possible I’ll have to quit Lemmy the same way I had to quit Reddit two years ago. Silly monkey brain like big number, and the voting system is addictive for me. Gotta have those imaginary internet points lol. If I do end up quitting, I have a Neocities page[2], and if you’re interested in the Commonthroat language, there’s a comprehensive grammar on Frathwiki[3].

  1. Megathread on the CBB ↩︎

  2. The Lonely Galaxy on Neocities ↩︎

  3. The Commonthroat language on FRathwiki ↩︎

  • early_riserOPEnglish
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    2 months ago

    My stories are probably best viewed on the corresponding CBB thread

    Here’s a rough timeline:

    • 100,000 years before present (BP): The dawn of sapience
    • 95,000 BP: Yinrih achieve spaceflight
    • 67,000 BP: the Bright Way commercializes, start of the Age of Decadence
    • The Farspeaker’s Apprentice takes place in the middle of this period
    • The Artificer’s Litter is (likely) fictional, but the head referenced in the story is built during this time and the story was written after the War of Dissolution, which is why it clarifies that the Bright Way is headquartered on Yih and not Hearthside.
    • 34,000 BP: the War of Dissolution
    • RTFM occurs at the close of the war after the alliance between the Partisans and Pious Dissolutionists has collapsed.
    • The Spacer Confederacy occurs some time around the mid 18th century AD when Wayfarers’ Haven is founded.
    • Present Day
    • First Contact which I haven’t posted here, takes place in the generic “present day”. Old lore had the Dewfall land in 2020 during the pandemic, and since 2020 was already such a crazy year everyone just shrugged and said “sure, why not” at the news that aliens have landed.
    • The Angel and the Ape occurs a month or two after First Contact. The missionaries are still getting to know humanity and learning English.
    • Beating the Heat and The Tornado occur on the same day, three to five months after First Contact.
    • Are we as Mayflies? happens during that summer The missionaries still assume that it will take another 250 years for more yinrih to arrive.
    • The Mass Router occurs about a year after First Contact
    • The Ansible happens a few days later
    • Everybody Poops Together and The House of Friendship occur years later after the mass router has made travel between Sol and Focus trivial.
    • An Alien Through Alien Eyes is in-universe fiction written some time before the invention of the mass router, since Sunbeam mentions taking hundreds of years to travel from Focus to the bugs’ planet.
    • Meanwhile, in an Alternate Universe… is, well, an alternate universe where Earth and humanity are the subjects of a yinrih’s conworld instead of the other way around. It takes place in one of Welkinstead’s floating cities, so it happens some time during the age of decadence or post war period.