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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ulfgeir" data-source="post: 8248597" data-attributes="member: 7015719">Have started on my own setting for a convention-scenario I was writing (lots of work still left.I had included jumpgates (fixed gates where ships could come though after traveling through hyperspace). Some ships could jump themselves without the need of such gates (like certain exploration-ships and military ships, but it costa huge amount of energy). To set up a new gate, you needed to travel though dangerous areas in Hyperspace, and then build the gate. I had included tachyon-based communications, and certain weapons of mass destruction (such as anti-matter bombs and singularity-creators).Other than that I think you tend to have a couple of different sets of SF, each with their own defaults.Near future (Cyperpunk)You might have some cyberware, flying cars, AR/VR-technology, and in some cases AI's and droids. Longevity maybe for the ultra rich (probably on an experimental stage).Near future (Hard SF)AR/VR-technology, emerging AI's, generation ships, robots exploring planets.Retro futureFor most parts technology as it existed at the depicted time, with some more modern things like television-based screens for communication. Some much more advanced things might exist such as space ships and bases on the moon or other planets.Far future (Space Opera)Space ships (and dogfights with them), droids of various level of automation and intelligence, aliens, hand-held energy weapons. Faster Than Light travel and communication, terraformed planets, cloning might exist.Post apocalypticBasically current technology, but nothing that requires computers or cell-phones (or even electricity). Radios might exist.Might be more types, but these are the ones I can think of now.Edit:Alternate historyTake one thing in the past, and change it, then keep everything else the same and then forward how the world world look different. This is related to the Near Future (Hard SF). Often donr to make philosophical/political points about something.</blockquote>

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