What is Orion's Arm
From Orion's Arm
What is "Orion's Arm" you might ask? Good question. Our Statement of Purpose attempts an answer. Apart from that, one might say that Orion's Arm is:
- A collective hard science / social science SF worldbuilding endeavour
- A communal background for SF stories
- A roleplaying setting
- the next evolutionary development of popular SF/SciFi.
- A transhumanist projection of where we might be heading
- A bunch of semi-sane sentients having fun together
Orion's Arm is a vast work in progress, a "Space Opera" setting like no other. It spans the next ten thousand years of terragen galactic history, from the near future interplanetary colonization to the far future where the colonised part of the galaxy is ruled by vast ascended intelligences, incorporating both hard science, and the "soft" or social sciences, as well as mythological, archetypal themes, as the gods of the collective psyche incarnate in unforeseen new forms.
In this series of pages, we try to introduce the Orion's Arm universe and the Orion's Arm Project (OA for short). Because a number of comments will be introduced that may be unfamilar, there are links below that can be followed, for a more detailed explanation. The Orion's Arm Primer (requires adobe acrobat reader) is especially written to provide an overall introduction to the setting. You may also want to peruse the FAQS pages for the answers to various commonly (and not so commonly) asked questions.
Or if you want you can skip these pages and go to the backstory sequence that explains how the world goes from how things are now to how they are in the Orion's Arm Universe.
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