Line #17 Literature/TheGalacticSeries


1	''[[http://galaxiescollide.wordpress.com/ The Galactic Series]]'' is a short-story SpaceOpera series that differs somewhat in that it is ''not'' set in our galaxy, instead being set in a pair of colliding galaxies in the Virgo Supercluster. Around two million A.D., two galaxy-spanning civilisations, the Shango Federation and the Qareen Confederacy, from each of the original galaxies, found themselves coming directly into regular contact in the "Intersection Zone", the region of space where the two galaxies are joined; as a result, their mutual suspicion boiled over into the Intersection Wars, a series of five wars which caused immense destruction on both sides and shifted the balance of power in the galaxy.
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3	Yet after this, there are still immense issues to overcome. The truce negotiated by both sides was an awkward one, and both sides have to cope with the pressures of maintaining such large and coherent political bodies - terrorism, separatist movements and reactionary campaigns are not uncommon. Furthermore, looming over all of them is the immense presence of the Dharan Republic, a race of aliens who are, in comparison, gods, and not always of the benevolent kind.
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6	!!The stories generally provide examples of:
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8	* AbsentAliens: Inverted -- humans are largely absent, barring some occurrences of time travel and the gift of the "human database".
9	* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Justified as the Shango and Qareen languages are... unorthodox, to say the least.
10	* AllTheoriesAreTrue: It's possible to build hollow planets and flat planets, and to fire alkahest at enemy spaceships.
11	%%* AlternativeCalendar:
12	%%* BigDumbObject: Darkworlds, Spaceplanes.
13	* FasterThanLightTravel: although travelling across one of the galaxies can take less than an hour, a month, or several years, depending on whose technology you use.
14	* TheFederation: Downplayed, in that the Shango are not necessarily more peaceful or more moral than their opposites.
15	%%* HumanAliens
16	%%* HumansAreSpecial: ''Maybe''.
17	* NoTranshumanismAllowed: Largely with the Shango; with the Qareen, it's a case of ''some'' transhumanism allowed, much of it to do with neural improvement.
18	* NumberedHomeworld: The Stoppan label their planets "Res 1", "Res 2" and so on.
19	* PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny: The Representative People's Democratic Socialist Commonwealth Republic of the Bhoot People may well qualify.
20	* SkeletonGovernment: Given that the Shango and the Qareen are both post-scarcity societies, they don't need a lot of functions, such as a Treasury or a Business Department.
21	%%* SpaceOpera
22	* StandardSciFiHistory: Downplayed. It's not known exactly what happened to humanity at all. Other races are in the Empire stage, although it would appear that the decline just hasn't happened for some.
23	* StarScraper: On the Shango's Darkworlds, there are towers reaching a hundred kilometres in height, and the forces acting on them at the top (or even in the middle) are not the same as at the bottom.
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26	!!Particular stories provide examples of:
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28	%%* CrisisOfFaith
29	%%* CyberSpace: "Gathering Apart".
30	%%* FirstContact
31	* SeriousBusiness: "The Sport of Presidents" has a huge controversy over a cup game, which apparently has galaxy-spanning implications.

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