Not in the star wars way, which has always struck me as a fantasy tropes with a sci-fi cover (though I'm not here to talk about that!).
I mean more of a cross-over, in my case high technology falling into a mid-fantasy world and creating all sort of consequences. Though I also mean, high fantasy characters ending up in a high-technology setting, dimension traveling, etc...
I'll put the backstory for the idea I'm working with right now below, and would welcome any thoughts about it, but I'm also interested in any ideas others have had similar to this, or any resources or media that might work as inspiration or guidance while working on something like this.
Thanks!
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I started recently working on a world that's still very early in the development of it's ~human~ race, basically right out of the cradle of civilizaiton who naturally form into eight differing civilizations based on theological disputes about a celestial body that orbits their planet which many revere as godly and use for measurements like calendar keeping, etc... In reality, this celestial body is a space station sent by an unknown race to watch the planet develop. After a few generations of development, there is an unknown disaster (the race and disaster will be developed by me at some later point, but don't factor much into the story I'm currently hoping to write in this world) on the space station, which leaves the space station unharmed but leaves it uninhabited, one ship leaving the station makes it's way towards the planet and makes a rocky landing on its surface. The pilot dies but the ship is for the most part undamaged and operational. The people in the different kingdoms see it as a divine sign or at the very least something to be sought after, and go to war over it. In the end, a more sensible and benevolent kingdom wins it and begins to study it and eventually through luck or fate learns to pilot it. They fly it towards the space station (their deity) and happen upon it, the ship lands them inside and they become convinced they are in heaven, essentially. As an act to keep peace between other nations, they get 7 other ships and take them down and give one to each kingdom, along with the knowledge of how to fly it, asking only that they each fly to find new homelands, and never go to war again.
That's a very preliminary outline of the backstory of the world. The actual story I want to write would take place 1 thousand or so years later, taking place in a setting where all sorts of bizarre things have happened to the different kingdoms, but they have begun to expand back into each (Their concept of "far" was obviously very skewed from essentially horseback to space travel) other and conflict has begun to arise again.
I mean more of a cross-over, in my case high technology falling into a mid-fantasy world and creating all sort of consequences. Though I also mean, high fantasy characters ending up in a high-technology setting, dimension traveling, etc...
I'll put the backstory for the idea I'm working with right now below, and would welcome any thoughts about it, but I'm also interested in any ideas others have had similar to this, or any resources or media that might work as inspiration or guidance while working on something like this.
Thanks!
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I started recently working on a world that's still very early in the development of it's ~human~ race, basically right out of the cradle of civilizaiton who naturally form into eight differing civilizations based on theological disputes about a celestial body that orbits their planet which many revere as godly and use for measurements like calendar keeping, etc... In reality, this celestial body is a space station sent by an unknown race to watch the planet develop. After a few generations of development, there is an unknown disaster (the race and disaster will be developed by me at some later point, but don't factor much into the story I'm currently hoping to write in this world) on the space station, which leaves the space station unharmed but leaves it uninhabited, one ship leaving the station makes it's way towards the planet and makes a rocky landing on its surface. The pilot dies but the ship is for the most part undamaged and operational. The people in the different kingdoms see it as a divine sign or at the very least something to be sought after, and go to war over it. In the end, a more sensible and benevolent kingdom wins it and begins to study it and eventually through luck or fate learns to pilot it. They fly it towards the space station (their deity) and happen upon it, the ship lands them inside and they become convinced they are in heaven, essentially. As an act to keep peace between other nations, they get 7 other ships and take them down and give one to each kingdom, along with the knowledge of how to fly it, asking only that they each fly to find new homelands, and never go to war again.
That's a very preliminary outline of the backstory of the world. The actual story I want to write would take place 1 thousand or so years later, taking place in a setting where all sorts of bizarre things have happened to the different kingdoms, but they have begun to expand back into each (Their concept of "far" was obviously very skewed from essentially horseback to space travel) other and conflict has begun to arise again.