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As one sci-fi writer said, for all the epic space operas ever written and all huge fictional empires ever imagined, they all would fit into just one little bord
by deepsun 3y ago
As one sci-fi writer said, for all the epic space operas ever written and all huge fictional empires ever imagined, they all would fit into just one little border of our Orion Arm (or Local Arm) of Milky Way. There's more than enough of everything.
- wruza 3y agoWait, what? SG:U is about multiple galaxies. Pretty sure many operas also use at least that setting. That writer may have talked about pop-scifi where “something something galaxy” is a best spot for a “wow”, given that on average people don’t know how space is structured beyond that.
- cthalupa 3y agoI believe the comment is more about the practical reality of it - I can say that I have a story that takes place across the whole universe, but if the scenes only take place in a handful of planetary systems, even if I say they're in different galaxies, it could all fit in a tiny fraction of a single galaxy.
- pfdietz 3y agoMy favorite Fermi-friendly space opera setting would involve panspermia in the Sun's natal cluster. This would suppose origin of life in that cluster (not necessarily in our solar system), very soon after star formation, followed by seeding of the other star systems there. This would end up with about 10,000 lifebearing star systems, spread in roughly a half circle around the center of the Milky Way, with our solar system somewhere on that arc.
- deepsun 3y agoThey meant that there's never any need to call it "multiple galaxies", except for wow effect, it would always fit into Local Arm, no matter how big the imagination went.