_In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and widely regarded as a bad move._ *~ Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy*

Ah yes ... planet Bil ... along with moons Keith and Jeremy.

Iron, oil, thorium, uranium, gems, and not to mention all the random ass elements we need to make something as simple a battery. There are loads of things that can be mined, not just for practical reasons but commercial reasons too. I'm glad mining was touched upon.

While "rare resources" are fine and all, maybe don't choose hydrogen and helium, being the first and second most common resources in the universe, respectively.

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2:40 remember you can have sci-fi that doesn't involve space travel

I like the video, but I'd like to point out Hydrogen and Helium are not good justifications for an outpost in an otherwise unused star system, particularly not orbiting a rocky world. They are the two most common substances in the universe, and can be found in huge quantities in gas giants. A better justification would be that "Bill" contains high amounts of rare metals or fissionables.

I run on the Wild West Town Rule. The party can look around at first glance and see a bunch of infrastructure, but only the metaphorical saloons and banks have actual sets. Everything else can be made up later if I see them going there.

In role playing I have a simple rule: the world exists only as far as the players can see. If a campaign takes place in a city I come up with the most important basics of the city and the rest of the world exists in a state of flux. If the players are looking for something I didn’t envision in the city than I add it if it’s logical or mention it being in a neighboring city to set up a new location of interest for the players. Learning to add things on the spot is the mark of an experienced GM, if you do it right then your players will think it always existed and they’ll be impressed how well thought out the world is.

10:24 I learned that the hard way. I like worldbuilding more than I like writing, and for a creative writing project for a literature class, I actually did over-worldbuild. I reconciled it by still continuing to worldbuild on the side, but focusing on the story I was writing and including only the worldbuilding elements I actually needed. Ironically, I think the extra worldbuilding actually helped me. I started with a plan for the course of the story, but I was able to use the worldbuilding to ground the story and keep things logically consistent, something which some of my classmates had trouble with.

Star Wars and Doom are science fantasy, witch is a mix of both sci-fi and fantasy.

Piss corp sounds more like ammonia- rather than helium sellers 😂

Leaving a comment for the algorithm. This was a good, helpful video.

i think people shouldn't let themselves be restricted by any genre criteria, like hard vs soft sci-fi, and just create a world with its own logic and rules, mix things up and just let their creativity run wild. as long as they keep things consistent, everything should be allowed :)

It's interesting hearing what other people like in scifi because like you say, it is a very broad genre. To me, the appeal of the genre has always been about those stories about human endeavour and progress which may or may not involve "spacey" stuff at all. Striving for, and realising the consequences of, new discoveries is what gets my imagination racing.

James: most planets that we know of are uninhabitable to humans planet Earth: ... "most"...

He went all out, getting his mouth geared up for this sci-fi discussion

For somebody who randomly showed up on my feed I’ve been loving the world building videos so far. Keep it up 👍

What I appreciated was that you kept this very grounded and to the point. I tend to get lost in details, and your mindset of not going too far past what's necessary is very helpful. Thanks.

"Planet bill" "We need something there that's valuable enough to justify them coming all this way." You mean, other than gigatons of minerals?

You open the video with, “Spaceships,” and all I could think was, “Spaceship? Spaceship spaceship spaceship! SPACESHIP!” Great video. I would definitely watch a whole a series like this.

How about a giant station built near a black hole, constantly siphoning off the black hole and using the dense materials found to build ships and parts

Someone shits on ancaps in a video: I proceed to like that video

I think something similar to the system they use in the City of London, but without as many ceremonial aspects suits the setting you outlined combining the trappings of democracy with immense corporate input. A more eccentric, opaque, difficult to comprehend system is hard to find than the City of London Corporation. Businesses, often Banks, Stock Trading and Insurance houses, alongside the Livery Companies (Guilds or Trade Unions might be the obvious equivalent) have pretty much the same status as electors and are probably quite a bit more important. The Square Mile is to some degree separate from the rest of London, has its own Lord Mayor (a mostly self-funded position, though with a very fancy official residence, Mansion House) and governmental structures, including its own Police separate from the Metropolitan Police. In most senses, it's nuts. Companies have the vote in City Government and membership of the different levels is sometimes chosen by a clique (the Court of Aldermen or the Livery Companies), rather than by the relatively small population who can afford to live there. All at the heart of one of the most important cities on Earth... If I was writing something based on a mining colony, I might be tempted to go down a similar road.

Your videos are absolutely incredible to listen to while drawing. keep it up!

Sweet video, keep it up. I’d love to see more of your advice and thoughts on RPG campaign worldbuilding specifically!

MORE OF THIS PLEASE!!!

Thanks for your video! Adore sci fi, and I've been working on my own setting for it. I feel like I have all the right pieces to make it, but videos like this help give me a push in the right direction.

Hey this stuff is excellent. I'd really love to see you do a deep dive into alternative histories someday. Subscribed

Yo an alt history type one would be sweet

You wanna know how I do ftl travel? Fold engines, which are essentially just tesseracts that are projected in to our reality. Using their (completely made up) ability to fold reality in on itself, you can travel great distances in a matter of minutes.

Really surprised you didn't talk about Science Fantasy. What you did talk about was ridiculously helpful.

Gerard video, thank you for your work

Really informative and good, thanks man.

Keep up the good work !

Did i talk too much about sci fi on your server

I have my setting somewhat fleshed out, but it's *far* from done. I'm even going so far as to make up the cultural musical styles of the period (which by the way is the early 22nd century)! And I can add some interesting character moments via remarks about the current music or something along those lines.

I mean.... There is 'Science Fantasy', where the story is a blend of both Science and Fantasy.

I appreciate this video so much ✌️

i'd love to see more videos like this btw

Good video as always.

Bruh how is earth running out of hydrogen, 70% of the surface is covered in a substance that you can electrolyse to get hydrogen

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Please do more genre videos like these!

World building is pretty much the same in sci-fi and fantasy

If Planet Bill's main resources were gases, it would make more sense to have it be a gas giant, which neatly explains why there has to a station: There's no surface to live on.

Yes, please cover more genres!

Funny you mention sci-fi on a different planet other than earth being done rarely, it's something I've begun to attempt.

Star Wars is Science FANTASY... just saying. EDIT... also, don't use Helium and Hidrogen... They're plenty abundant in our own solar system, this little thing called Jupiter has a lot of 'em. If you must justify it, say Bill is a gas giant and Marlucia is the result of an old "mining" station slowly growing to the point where it become a full blown colony. Mining in quotes because, well, you don't really mind gas off a gas giant, not like you'd mine ore on earth.

Leaving a comment for the algorithm, more people need to see your vids!

Excellent!

To be honest i've just been calling Star Wars Sci-Fantasy mostly

Good stuff

Something any sci fi story in the far future needs to bring up is why don't they just use robots for everything? Why use human workers when a robot can do the same work but better and faster? Why don't the military just mass produce cheap robots as cannon fodder? Even if A.I.s are illegal they will still automate most if not all factory jobs.

Bios - Robert Charles Wilson. A sci-fi story where there's a space station set up around an alien planet that is uninhabitable owing to the highly destructive and contagious microorganisms. However as the only known example of alien life of course it must be studied... Pretty good read IMHO

I can't wait to see the military stuff. I realized that I have a really ancient alien race that is more than a billion years old and hasn't traveled past their own solar system, but is getting there. :( Might need some work? Maybe not? Maybe this world sort of has it's own logic? Anyway, I like your stuff and this gives me something to think about when I am building my own science fiction world.

Love the thumbnail

Engagement for the Engagement God.

I made a tactical, strategic, ccg with a back story... built with conspiracy theory in a fantasy world, currently I have a space game ccg on the back burner without a script... for now.

“My monthly chance to shit on An-Caps”. 😂

While lying on the floor recently, I was thinking, "Writing is actually a lot like math. Everything you do, it needs to add up, it needs to flow logically, and everything that happen needs to have a logical explanation." I'm a physics major, but I'm going to work on writing hard scifi.

I like the idea of aliens coming to earth and actually affecting our language and culture.

For the algorithm. Also you make me want to write a book.

@7:40@ I thought this topic is so intresting I made it one of the mystires of my universe in the story. the story takes place in the year 2020 and earth was completly destroyed by a "great" conqurer named "the Supierior Graffine", one of the survivers is a girl named Iy-la, and she s forced to live in other planes (other than earth) you can go through planets in my story using cracks in space and time, in earth the only crack is in the Baramoda tringle (but we were too aciant and undeveloped as a spicies to find that out) all the other goverments (other than the destroyed earth) have totaliterion leaders, for example: king, Sulten, Chif, head of the Tribe. communisem and ect. earth was the only one that made a democracy (that was ruined after he was destroyed) while all the other more deeloped and amazing civilastions still live in middle ages when we are talking about things like basic human rights, the big quastion is : why and how only earth developed well enough to understand human rights and democracy, while none of the other plants maneged to? of course the answer is a spoiler so I won't say more.

Hey James! There is this one science fantasy book that I had been worldbuilding since I was a kid, and in the last three+ years I had been writing down everything related to the universe and plot, characters and mechanics that could not fit in my head anymore. It is a project I am hoping to release in next upcoming few years if my spark wont run out, heh. Could I send you a copy if you are willing to read once the first revisions are out?

4:38 James lists reasons to live on an orbital space-station, rather than the plannet. If the air isn't breathable, it would still be cheaper to put the space station ON the plannet, rather than in orbit. This applies to most of your reasons. The exception being that the plannet has gravity too strong to survive. Workers on the space-station service and care for the robots that they send down to the surface.

4:34-4:43 Plus, terraforming a planet takes *centuries* of work, at the very least.

1:10 YES! So many people don't understand this!

6:42 Space travel is so cheap that while the mining company is making a fortune, another company shows up just to sell sandwiches to the miners.

Create an anime setting & plot please. I'd be very intrigued & fascinated with what you'd be able to conjure up. It can be sci-fi, fantasy, noir, comedy, slice of life or a mixture of genre(s) & it can be of this world or that of a different one. My only stipulation is that it must be a Shounen or Seinen

12:00 I don't have that problem at all my mind just churns stuff out and doesn't care about stuff

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For the algorithm, because I love you

Science is just magic explained, change my mind

He is the Kwisatz Haderach!

So coming up with a periodic table is good too huh.

Can't help but wonder what Piss Corp's company slogan would be....

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An alternative for an oligarchy/plutocracy is Athens under Solon, where people were divided into four wealth-based classes which each had equal share of the vote. Thus, the minority of rich people haf more sway than the poor masses.

James: ["It'd be interesting to see sci-fi from the ground up but Earth's future is also cool"] *Smugly chuckles in the setting of my books having both before spitting out tea at the realization that it's raw.*

Guide to writing supernatural romance, when?

What’s your opinion on Destiny’s worldbuilding

You say that you can either explore deeper messages or just interesting ideas...aren't they the same thing? If you really fully explore an interesting idea then you end up with a deep message. If you start with a cool idea but don't further explore it, then you just end up shitty story. Good stories de facto have deeper messages.

A lot of people do confuse sci-fi and fantasy . I love both genre tbh

My world is both fantasy and sci-FI. A race, they were not humans like us, more like smarter neandertal , they started a civilaztion much earlier than the other ”humans” , they lived on the large land mass that after many thousands of years went into an ice age so they had to flee. At this point they had allready reach the space age. All the faction had to unite to save themself, while some did intergrate with the other ”humans” most of the race didn’t want to interract and cause trouble so they went to another planet in their solar system. It was colder but liveable, with breathable atmopshere and large amounts of water. They terra formed the planet to suit their needs and ever since they have advanced in magic and technology. Very rarely visiting their planet of orgin.

I think that the unions might hold lot of power and serve as a suppressed opposition

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How about a fantasy world created with a sci fi method

Some fantasy takes place in our world? Right

Nice video! I am awaiting the trekkie avalanche of comments in defense of trek technology not being soft though lol

But there is so much hydrogen and helium in our system. Starlifting is quite simple, and the gas giants are made of the stuff.

Am I a four year old or is Pisscorp just fucking hilarious?

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Why does it have to be space? Just because the society is really advanced doesn't mean that they ever had any reason or desire to invest in space travel and the stars. Some might just not care.

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I’m stuck in the cycle of having my story in multiple star systems but refusing to break any laws of physics. It doesn’t work very well.

Star Wars is both because space and also it has an actual magic system.

Thanks for mentioning “how much worldbuilding is enough” topic. P.S. dull haircut☹️

Lol my science fiction is about interdimensional space clowns

Starwars isn't syfy but science fantasy