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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ajanders" data-source="post: 5029452" data-attributes="member: 3271">I experimented with this question a while ago and found myself asking the question "Why wuxia? Why not a laser pistol/gyrorocket derringer/plasma sword?"I got two answers, one technological, one historical. Historically, people turned to the martial arts because the government wouldn't let them have swords, guns, or "real weapons".This leads me to suggest the government is oppressive and tyrannical, tightly controlling the economy to eliminate weapons sales and restrict the sales of things that might be made into weapons: nobody can buy a laser pistol and you must have a permit to buy an exciter crystal...even if it's being mounted in a printer.The technological answer is that wuxia -- swords and fists -- won't accidentally rupture a pressure hull like a missed shot from a plasma cannon. This suggests that the geography of the campaign takes place in spaceships, space stations, and sealed environments on planets with a hostile natural environment.This suggests your society has not found any Earthlike planets: everyone is living in space stations, Dyson Spheres, or on planets that cannot be terraformed or have not been yet.So, to recap: oppressive government won't let people have guns. Fear of depressurization means that while people may want to resist the oppressive government, they don't want to do it with guns either...and are unlikely to look kindly on the people that do.Getting your wuxia elements might be easy, but I wouldn't use "magic" or anything understood as magic myself. Try at least using pseudoscience.For wuxia leaps and flying techniques, consider going to places with different gravity levels. On the moon, everybody can leap wuxia-style. The same would apply to a space habitat that only used microgravity.(And of course low gravity makes it possible to send someone flying back twenty feet with a good punch.)It's entirely possible a government (especially an oppressive, tyrannical one) might start genetically engineering colonists to make them more compatible with their environment. Such genetic engineering would probably increase their dexterity, strength, and most importantly, constitution: all of which make for a wuxia character.Lastly, you'd had a question about religion. Dannyalcatraz Jedi/Buddhists are good, but I'd also go back to China and look at ancestor worship. You could pair that up with the Transhumanist notion of "consciousness downloads" to create a "virtual god".</blockquote>

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