Which sci-fi setting would you live in?

Which is what I want - enough tech that I can surf the Cortex, take a bath and have 'tricity, but enough space that I can enjoy the wilderness a bit.

CRAP. The link I had to a map of the 'Verse is dead. Now I have to slog through a huge PDF file.

edited 12th May '11 6:55:53 PM by pvtnum11

I forgot Starship Troopers.. It was so obvious that I was looking right past it.

CITIZENSHIP MOTHERFUCKER.

I'd have an actual chance at making a run for office after I retired post-bug war...

Blame the bugs for inflation?

No love for Armor?

Me, I'm heading to Middle Finger after the Taurans are done and clones take over Earth.

I wouldn't mind being a somewhat less conquest-prone, non-racist member of the Draka Empire.

You'd be a horrible Drakan.

Not really (take that how you will); there isn't much to do when you rule the world; the Spartans went to war with the [look for name] every year so their children would have somebody to fight.

edited 12th May '11 7:54:29 PM by Kino

Their scientific advances could be similar to the Foundation.

"Bugs Mr. Rico, zillions of them; I'M A-BURNIN THEM DOWN!"

That's such an awesome soundtrack.

Yeah. It's hard to remember they're all about to be slaughtered spectacularly through Hollywood Tactics!

/Barkey raeg

Employing human wave tactics against a numerically superior enemy with a superior defensive position is stupid as fuck.

I assume Starship Troopers as in Heinlein's novel and not the shitty Verhoeven film, right?

I can see why guys like Kino and Barkey would like it there but I don't think I would, I'm too much of a coward/physically weak to join the military and all the "auxiliary services" (that is to say, the non-military ones) were made out to be as unpleasant as fuck. I know it's not conscription, but I don't think I'd be happy remaining disenfranchised.

You've got fingers and two eyes; pretty sure you won't be stuck counting the hairs on a caterpillar.

^^

Being physically weak is a temporary state of being.

I wouldn't call them unpleasant, I'd be down to go into a police or medical field.

edited 13th May '11 4:52:52 AM by Barkey

I like the Whonivese, but the 51st century, OK?! Which bit? The one with the ominous prison, the maze of the dead teeming with Weeping Angels, the Library where shadows eat your flesh, or maybe that planet where Gray from Torchwood was kidnapped. And how about that ship with insane clockwork androids attempting to assassinate 18th century aristocracy while using human parts to keep the ship complete? Sounds AWESOME.

Being trapped inside a fantasy world in CAL's mainframe could be pretty nice though, though I'd possibly forget about most of my travels thanks to the Doctor Moon

edited 13th May '11 7:21:26 AM by OldManHoOh

Doctor Who's Britain seems to like throwing kids at the problem to make it go away. Seriously if the Star Whale doesen't eat the kids why do they keep trying?

Yeah, but in the world of Starship Troopers they do everything they can to discourage you from signing up. Plus training in the MI is Training from Hell - remember the bit where Rico was dumped naked in the mountains and then had to find his way back to the training camp 50 kilometres away?

^^^ Most of the 51st century is unseen. We've only seen various nasty planets with exploration teams visiting them. What we've seen of the technology and human culture of the period hasn't looked so bad...

Up until I remembered that that's also Magnus Greel's home era. OK, maybe not the 51st.

In fact, not Doctor Who at all; I can't recall a single future era where they've been where there hasn't been something horribly wrong with human society.

I'm living in Futurama. Like our world but with more robots, spaceships, hookers and blackjack.

In fact, forget the robots and spaceships.

And the blackjack! Ahh, screw the whole thing.

@pagad: Well there's a reason for that, the Mobile Infantry is one of the few units that go down to a planet to fight, there's a chance that they might become isolated from their squad on a drop so they need to know how to survive alone.

Noones mentioned the Honorverse yet? Preferably, depending on how hedonistic I'm feeling, either Manticore or Beowulf.

I'd rather not be a redshirt, and subject to the whims of a mad god who can't even get math right.

Living while Leto II is on the throne might be awesome during the second or third centuries while there's still some interesting things going on, but once the Golden Path has set in, no thanks.

Ix is at the top of my places to visit, though.