Post from @binary on cohost

November 28, 2022

worldbuilding, liminal void, total//effect

This is a pretty cool idea! I'll give this a shot because I'm starting to sketch out a new thing (Liminal Void) and I'm trying to give it a little more to work with setting-wise than I normally do for a game.

Inspirations

The Expanse
Cowboy Bebop
System Shock
Alien/s
FTL

About

If I had to narrow it down to statements would probably come out to something like:

Space is inherently hazardous and by all rights nobody should be in it. This is more true the less populated the area is.
The farther out a station or colony is from any of the centers of corporate power, the more exploited and extracted they are.
Being thrust suddenly onto the fringes of society and having to figure out how to deal with that.
The wildly disruptive nature of independent ship ownership.

I'll pull this (and some of those Icon ideas) into a dedicated post later.

(Read the original on cohost here!)