#interstellar civilization

[chaotic-would-you-rathers]

Would You Rather...

A: Become leader of a small, newly terraformed swamp planet colonization team of an interstellar (human, with FTL, lets say around 1000 star systems) civilization in the far future (where aliens have not been encountered), you will be in charge of a small team of 12 other people and millions of robots to prepare the planet for inhabitation (and will be fairly compensated based on your work, the civilization in question is whatever you personally consider closest to a utopia) you will have to live on the planet afterwards, you have 5 years before the first batch of 10,000 colonists arrive. B: Become a low ranking noble in an interstellar feudal human civilization in the far future (with FTL, lets say 10,000 star systems) (where aliens have not been encountered) in charge of a single recently colonised gas giant (where a layer of atmosphere has been made breathable, and people live on floating cities extracting gas from lower layers) you are obligated to live on your planet, manage its government, military and finances independantley, pay taxes to your liege, and produce heirs. Your planet has a population of 500 million.

[eyeoftheheart]

I asked the AI to generate an image inspired by my words, and to my surprise, it included a winged lion — the symbolic representation of my Guardian Spirit. The strange thing is, I never mentioned anything about it. When I asked the AI why it appeared, I received this response...

The Winged Lion was included in the image as a powerful archetypal symbol. Across cultures, the lion represents courage, strength, and spiritual sovereignty, while the wings suggest transcendence, divine guidance, and higher consciousness. Together, the winged lion embodies humanity’s potential to rise above its current limitations—physically, morally, and spiritually. In the context of your quote—about evolving into an interstellar civilization through the fusion of science and spirituality—the winged lion serves as a guardian and a beacon. It symbolizes the awakened soul that has mastered both earthly power and celestial wisdom, standing as a living bridge between the material and the metaphysical realms.

[eyeoftheheart]

If humanity invested its energy with greater wisdom and purpose, we would already be soaring among the stars, having evolved into an interstellar civilization—not just technologically, but also in consciousness. The future belongs to those who dare to think and dream beyond the mental confines of our current civilization—those who can weave together the threads of spirituality and science, art and alchemy, philosophy, poetry, and prophecy into a higher synthesis. They are the bridge-builders of a new world.

“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.” ― Nikola Tesla

If only people would stop the war, we could do so much.

[ufipa]

[korvax404] decided to make some 'travel poster' style posters for some of the capital planets - what do y'all think? I thought it'd be fun to include the phonetics too, since there was some dispute between myself and DOOMCREW56 about the pronunciation of some planets' names.

This is just a prototype, so if anyone thinks there's any additional info I should include, please say! I'm always open to suggestions when it comes to graphic design + promotional stuff. So far I've made posters for Yecoreumata Uitam, Ciush, Odst IV and have a draft saved for the Edrovozd system as a whole, which I'll post as well as these if they catch on :D

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[gunsandspaceships]

On Iron Man & Christopher Nolan

You know that these two guys (Chris Nolan and RDJ) are on their way to Oscars right now, right? And I was reflecting recently on the similarities between some of the plots I've seen in Nolan's films and the plots of the MCU films with Tony. Just want to remind you here about some of them:

Batman Begins (2005) & Iron Man (2008): orphans-billionaires start their movies in filthy “sort of prisons” in some distant countries. Both are betrayed by their old friend-mentor. And overall, you all know how similar Tony and Bruce are in some ways.

The Dark Knight (2008) & CA:CW (2016): The Dark Knight speaks to us through the Joker's mouth about codependency of heroes and villains: “I don't, I don't want to kill you! What would I do without you? Go back to ripping off mob dealers? No, no, NO! No. You... you... complete me.” Same tells us Vision in Civil War: “Our very strength incites challenge. Challenge incites conflict. And conflict... breeds catastrophe.”

The Dark Knight Rises (2012) & The Avengers (2012): Smart billionaires with interesting, but dangerous hobbies sacrifice themselves to save a city from a nuke. Both ended up alive. Both are sitting in a restaurant in their final scenes.

Interstellar (2014) & Avengers: Endgame (2019): retired pilots are asked to save humanity. They leave their daughters, travel through time and die/disappear after achieving the goal. Should we wait until Morgan is 80 to see Tony again?

Transcendence (2014, Nolan was an executive producer) & Tony’s arc in general (2008-2019): love the movie, very underrated in my opinion. It’s just an alternative Marvel universe, telling you. An AI scientist with a goatee creates an advanced AI and gets attacked by terrorists. They put a bit of radioactive metal in his body and he slowly dies. His wife, a botanist Maya Hansen, and his friend, Jarvis, help upload his consciousness into a computer. He gains superpowers by being literally deus ex machina. But everything ends tragically, because people don’t understand the scientist and are not ready to change themselves and the world they live in.

Oppenheimer (2023) & Tony’s arc in general (2008-2019): brilliant nuclear physicists create a weapon. Then argue with colleagues and the government to prevent their creation from being used, because they realized how dangerous their creation is, and how irresponsible people are.

No idea what the conclusion is.

[twiglet192]

The Dark Forest Theory: Should Humanity Stay Silent In The Cosmos?

“The universe is a dark forest. Every civilization is an armed hunter stalking through the trees like a ghost…” — Liu Cixin, The Dark Forest The Fermi Paradox and a Dangerous Silence When we look to the stars, we often do so with hope—hope that we are not alone, that somewhere out there, intelligence has bloomed like it has here on Earth. We search for signals, we send out our own, and we dream…

[redpenship]

plotting out buzzsaw 2 is way easier now that i've decided to tell it through sonics pov instead of tails' (with starline as the alternating pov)

[snargl-com]

Unknown alien race - Trialans

Like all life forms, Trialans could harness the sun's energy for survival. Solar technologies could provide electricity and heat production…

[kirbyddd]

kirby right back at ya is so cool

the premise of an ancient cosmic evil finding conquering worlds by force no longer feasible in a modernizing intergalactic civilization, so he starts a corporation and shifts to seeding his influence through products and services is an absolutely killer concept

[grayrazor]

The Ewoks had torsion catapults and heavier than air flying machines before metalworking or large-scale agriculture. In 5,000 years they’ll probably be the dominant galactic power.

[asagi-asagiri]

If you assume there's technological limits that limit advancements thousands of years can make sense

pro-tip: don't ever use the sentence "thousands of years" in your worldbuilding unless you really know what a thousand years is like

[monkeyandelf]

The Isis Project and the Tisul Princess: Echoes of a Forgotten Civilization

On https://www.monkeyandelf.com/the-isis-project-and-the-tisul-princess-echoes-of-a-forgotten-civilization/

The Isis Project and the Tisul Princess: Echoes of a Forgotten Civilization

In the shadows of official history, beyond the cold archives of archaeology and state secrets, exists a tale whispered among intelligence veterans and fringe researchers. It connects the sands of Egypt with the frozen depths of Siberia.

Two separate discoveries, decades apart, may form the puzzle pieces of one of humanity’s most staggering secrets — that advanced beings, possibly not of this Earth, once walked among us.

Operation Isis: The Lost Tomb Beneath the Sands of Giza

In 1961, at the height of Cold War tensions, the Soviet Union launched a top-secret operation in Egypt under the codename Isis. Officially, Soviet scientists and military advisors were assisting in archaeological excavations. Unofficially, the mission’s real objective was far more clandestine: to locate and recover an unclassified artifact hidden beneath one of Egypt’s forgotten tombs.

With covert support from informants within the Egyptian Antiquities Authority, the Soviets unearthed a sealed burial chamber beneath the Giza Plateau. What they found shocked even the most seasoned operatives. Inside was a pristine white sarcophagus, adorned not with hieroglyphs, but with geometric engravings and strange star maps aligned to the Orion constellation — a symbol that has long fascinated ancient astronaut theorists.

The sarcophagus was transported under maximum secrecy to a Soviet research facility. But what lay within it would ignite whispers of disbelief and fascination. Submerged in a pink-blue luminescent fluid was not a mummified pharaoh, but a flawlessly preserved woman. She had long brown hair, pale skin, and features that curiously resembled modern European women — not those of an ancient Egyptian.

Her clothing was crafted from a material unknown to science, woven with microscopic fibers that defied analysis. Her body showed no signs of decay, no rigor mortis. Some claimed her eyelids fluttered faintly, as if she were not dead — but merely asleep.

The Tisul Princess: Unearthing a Sleeping Beauty from Deep Time

Eight years later, and over 5,000 kilometers away in the Soviet village of Rzhavchik in Siberia’s Kemerovo region, coal miners stumbled upon another baffling discovery. While excavating a coal seam some 70 meters underground, they uncovered a perfectly intact marble sarcophagus embedded within the ancient coal — a material formed hundreds of millions of years ago.

When the lid was pried open, the scene mirrored that of the Egyptian find: a beautiful young woman, around 30 years of age, lay in a clouded pink-blue liquid. Her features were serene, her blue eyes open, her white silk-like dress undamaged by time. Those present described her not as dead, but appearing to be in some form of suspended animation.

Alongside her rested a mysterious black rectangular object — eerily similar to the device allegedly discovered with the Isis tomb. The miners alerted authorities, and within hours the area was quarantined. Witnesses were detained. Those who spoke of the event publicly later died under unexplained circumstances. The sarcophagus was flown to an undisclosed location, and the site was buried — both literally and in the archives of history.

Breaking the Boundaries of Time: A Challenge to Science

What makes the Tisul Princess even more mystifying is the geological age of the coal bed where she was found — estimated to be over 300 million years old. This completely disrupts the accepted timeline of human evolution, as no hominid, let alone a modern human, is believed to have existed then.

More astonishingly, a Soviet scientist later revealed that DNA analysis confirmed the woman’s genetic makeup was 100% identical to that of contemporary Russian people. Her garments were produced with techniques far beyond our current technological capabilities. The liquid she was preserved in could not be fully analyzed — only traces of ancient plant compounds, including onions and garlic, were identified.

These inexplicable similarities — the preservation fluid, the sarcophagus style, and the nearly identical appearance of the women — across two different continents and time scales suggest a unified origin. Some theorists believe they were not human at all, but advanced beings or genetically engineered entities placed on Earth by a far older, extraterrestrial civilization.

The Sleepers of Orion: Earth as a Colony of the Gods

Legends from across the world — from the Egyptian “Orion gods,” to the Chinese “White Spirits,” to the Siberian Sky-Maidens — speak of beings who came from the stars, taught humanity the secrets of civilization, and then vanished.

Could these preserved women be the remnants of such a race? Suspended in time, waiting to return when humanity is ready? The theory of paleocontact, once dismissed as fringe fantasy, gains renewed strength in light of these cases. A technologically and spiritually superior race may have visited Earth during its formative epochs, leaving behind guardians, messengers, or biological archives.

Some believe these sleepers are still alive, held in stasis by mechanisms we don’t yet understand. If awakened, they could reveal truths capable of reshaping every facet of human knowledge — history, religion, genetics, and cosmology.

Suppressed Truth or Protected Legacy?

Both the Isis Project and the Tisul Princess discoveries share one troubling trait: aggressive suppression. In both cases, the initial discoverers were silenced, their testimonies erased, and physical evidence removed from public view.

Those involved in the Tisul find were reported dead within months under strange circumstances. The Soviet government classified all documents related to both operations. And yet, rumors persisted — carried in underground publications, whispered in university halls, and occasionally echoed in the confessions of aging scientists.

One such Soviet insider, speaking anonymously in the 1990s, claimed: “They are not dead. They are in transition. Waiting for the world to mature. Their awakening will not be a myth — it will be a reckoning.”

A Global Pattern: Were There More?

It’s no longer just about Egypt or Siberia. Similar legends have emerged from Ecuador, where another preserved female figure was reportedly found in a crystal coffin. In China, folklore speaks of the “White Empresses” — celestial women sleeping beneath sacred mountains. Could these be part of a network of stasis chambers spread across the globe, each a node in a planetary system of cosmic knowledge?

The technology, the timing, and the symbolism all point to a single conclusion: Earth may have once been a colony — not of gods in the mythological sense, but of advanced beings so powerful they inspired the myths.

The Awakening: A Warning or a New Dawn?

If these beings awaken — either by accident, by design, or by humanity reaching a necessary level of understanding — the consequences could be profound. Will they act as guides to usher in a new golden age? Or will their return trigger ancient safeguards designed to test our readiness?

The line between fact and legend may be blurring. What was once relegated to science fiction or esoteric belief may now represent a hidden chapter in the human saga — one waiting to be revealed.

Humanity’s Forgotten Past May Be Its Future

Whether we label the stories of the Isis Project and the Tisul Princess as conspiracy, suppressed history, or extraordinary truth, they pose questions that mainstream academia refuses to confront. How could two nearly identical preserved women be found across continents and separated by millions of years — and yet be genetically indistinguishable from modern humans?

If even part of these stories are true, then our understanding of civilization, human origins, and our place in the universe must be rewritten.

The past is not gone. It sleeps beneath our feet — in marble coffins, under ancient pyramids, within walls of coal. And perhaps, soon, it will wake.

[ufipa]

Featured Planet #03: Ifortc Tau

🪐Planet Type: Lush - Paradise

👾Sentinel Activity: Spread Thin (None)

🌧️Weather: Deadly Pressure Variations

💫Star System: UFIPA-13132-Edrovozd

📈Economy: Trading

📊Economy Tier: ⭐️⭐️⭐️

⚔️Conflict Level: Intermittent, ⚔️2

👽Dominant Lifeform: Gek

🗺️Region: Hukosre

🌌Galaxy: Isdoraijung

Portal Glyphs: Bottom left of the pictures above

Make yourself at home in the rolling hills and plains of the UFIPA’s Gek capital, Ifortc Tau, a classified Eden world and home to the Capitol! Found in the Edrovozd system of the Isdoraijung galaxy, Ifortc Tau is a vibrant world home to unnaturally high levels of bovine fauna, among their ranks being G. Fonzkaunium, a flying variant of the more common Ungulatis genus. Though the Discovery Menu states that Ifortc Tau experiences 'Deadly Pressure Variations', the weather is in fact totally clear year round, and poses no threat to any under-equipped Travellers who may find themselves here.

During your visit head over to @cosmordial's base, Xenobiologist's Outpost as well as the Prometheus Collective's embassy base for a breathtaking view of the surrounding valleys, mountains, forests and the Capitol itself.

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[themorrignasystem]

I i..... I meant signalis

I am however, both dyslexic and tired

Thanks @derania

Two girl failures trying to cross a fence

[twiglet192]

THE MYSTERY OF PROJECT SERPO

Alien Exchange Program or Modern Myth? In the 1960s, an extraordinary claim surfaced that would forever alter how we view human-alien contact. Project Serpo, an alleged secret exchange program between the U.S. government and extraterrestrials from the Zeta Reticuli star system, promised to unlock the truth about UFOs and alien life. According to the story, 12 human astronauts—ten men and two…