diff --git a/content/about/_index.md b/content/about/_index.md index a07907a..95856ba 100644 --- a/content/about/_index.md +++ b/content/about/_index.md @@ -28,4 +28,6 @@ The Post-Self universe is an open setting for exploring the ramifications of bei ----- +For more discussion, conversation, and community, feel free to join the [Discord server](https://makyo.io/ps-discord) or [Telegram group](https://makyo.io/ps-telegram). + As an open setting, everything is free to use for your own purposes under a Creative-Commons 4.0 Attribution license. These stories wouldn't be what they are without the contributions of others; if you would like your work included here or simply have further questions, please feel free to [get in touch](https://makyo.is). diff --git a/content/about/writing.md b/content/about/writing.md index 36b162c..14a633e 100644 --- a/content/about/writing.md +++ b/content/about/writing.md @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ The System Most of the stories within the setting take place in the world of uploaded consciousnesses known colloquially as 'the System'. * *The key mechanics* — The key mechanics of the System (forking and merging, exocortices, the perisystem architecture, sensoria, cones of silence, the relative perfection of memory, etc) are known by all of the inhabitants via their introductory orientation when they are first uploaded. The same is not necessarily true phys-side, where many hold grand (and sometimes dangerous) views of what life must be like on the System. - * *True anarchy* — The society aboard Lagrange, Castor, and Pollux borders on a true anarchy. While there are some efforts to steer the general track of the society, they tend toward maintaining that anarchy rather than enforcing any core rule. Even the two specified organizations who poke at this, The Council of Eight in the System's early days and The Guiding Council on the Pollux launch vehicle, in theory act only as advisory bodies. + * *True anarchy* — The society aboard Lagrange, Castor, and Pollux borders on a true anarchy. While there are some efforts to steer the general track of the society, they tend toward maintaining that anarchy rather than enforcing any core rule. Even the two specified organizations who poke at this, The Council of Eight in the System's early days and The Guiding Council on the Pollux launch vehicle, in theory act only as advisory bodies. The Guiding Council does take a far more governance-oriented role near the end of the 2300s. * *A collection of varied societies* — Homogeneity is impossible in a System full of, by 2400, more than two trillion people. After all, should one build up a shared set of ideals, one might as well congregate with like-minded people. A set of linked Jesuit sims? Climate activist groups? Furry nightclubs? The answer is yes. * *A species divided* — Life phys-side back on Earth continues much as it has. While climate change continues to wreak havoc, people still live out their lives reading, writing, loving, hating, cooking shitting breakfasts for each other. Death remains a constant, life remains something to cling to. Many upload, of course, perhaps leaning on the subsidies offered by governments, but many do not. @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ Artemis * *Four new races, one new System* — Four separate uploaded races live aboard Artemis, each picked up as the vehicle passed by a planetary system with an uploaded population. After convergence, humanity joined as fifthrace as many on Castor uploaded to Artemis. * *Convergence* — When Artemis made contact, there was an exchange of emissaries between the two Systems. The result of these meetings was the joining of the five races, known as convergence. Artemisians were allowed to upload to Castor to remain in a restricted zone of the System, also known as Convergence. Anyone who wished to join from the rest of Castor was allowed as well. Similarly, anyone from Castor was allowed to join the Artemisians aboard their craft in turn. * *Skew* — Rather than having forking as an available mechanic, those who live on Artemis may individually skew their engagement with time. That is, one may skew positive so that they exist within the system at a faster rate than common time. - * *The Council of Ten* — Two representatives per race aboard Artemis were selected to act as part of a mediating and guiding body. While often described as purely a group to provide assistance and mediation, it's suggested that they also gently govern the races aboard without explicitly acknowledging such. + * *The Council of Ten* — Two representatives per race aboard Artemis were selected to act as part of a mediating and guiding body. While often described as purely a group to provide assistance and mediation, it's suggested that they also gently govern the races aboard without explicitly acknowledging such. This is echoed in Convergence, the location aboard the LV Castor where several Artemisians remain behind, though this remains a far more anarchic mediating body. ## The world is built for this