Orion's Arm

Surely I am not the only troper who is a fan of this nifty shared hard-ish sci-fi universe?

I must admit, the stories that I have read set in it did not impress me all that much; but the setting in itself is quite extensive and interesting, and I have spent many a hour happily reading in the Encyclopaedia Galactica.

I'm also a fan of the site in general. It is certainly much better thought out than most sci-fi universes and actually tries to answer the question of what life would be like for humanity thousands of years from now. The only issue I have is that it seems unlikely to me that humanity's descendants would worship the descendants of machines that they created. If anything, I would expect it to be the other way around.

Its Wikipedia page was what brought me to tvtropes.

The setting itself is admirable in its attempt to portray an actual vision of the future instead of the Standard Sci Fi Setting, although it's pretty obvious that some (occasionally narmy) aspects of the setting are only there to allow (interesting) stories to even exist in a post-singularity society that only has access to one galaxy in one measly universe.

Sometimes it comes across as smug, very, very smug.

I think it's very interesting.

I discovered the site not too long ago, as a result of my interest in megastructures (Dyson spheres, Niven rings and the like), and found the page on the Triangulum Transmission. I've been hooked ever since. In odd moments, I find myself thinking about the concept of Leviathan. Who's piloting it, and what are their intentions? Can it, and will it, speed up or change course? What's going on right now in the Triangulum civilization? Does that even exist anymore? And what's going to happen to the Milky Way when and if Leviathan comes a-knocking on our door?