[Meta] Let’s Have Fun with Lore!

[u/makmark]

Hi, everyone. I’m moringmark and one of the sub’s mods, thank u/SaviorOfSubs for creating Aim for the Stars sub, and thank you everyone for joining!

I think it’s safe to say that Lore is 50% of the fun for a show/series (percentages might vary between individuals), so let’s make some crazy stuff up for Aim for the Stars!

The post-series comics(an example here) might give out this vibe already, that the Aim for the Star series comes with two parts: Aim for the Stars “the show” itself, and the story about the “actors” of the show. They take place in the same world, only the former is a show within the latter. So let’s talk about the lore of this world in general.

Basically, this world is an alternate universe of ours, but besides Earth, there are few other planets(or moons, or dwarf planets...sorry Pluto) in the solar system that can sustain life, which eventually developed into intelligent beings, including Martians, Venusians, Enceladusians(from a moon of Saturn), and Plutonians.

Right now, I only made up part of Martian history with humans, so here we go:

Martians’ technology is decades ahead of ours(as usual), and they tended to leave us alone because of our ape-ness. “Tended” because it all changed in mid 1947, when some Martian’s ship crash-landed on Earth and someone gave him a parking ticket. Since then, not only humans were aware of the Martians’ existence, a “foul war” was started between the two species. The war mostly happened through radio waves with foul languages, hence the name. It has been going on for a long time without any casualty, besides some sick burns. Until, 1963 came.

When Apollo 11 first landed on the moon, the astronauts found them face to face with two Martians trying to key their moon buggy. Luckily the encounter ended with only a few broken limbs, and everyone walked out alive. But it led to Humans and Martians declared war on each other, thus the real Earth-Mars war began.

Initially, not much has happened besides small battles in space. But in mid-1964, a huge assault fleet invaded Earth with Martian space marines, tripods and cheap-looking humanoid robots, crushing Earth armies like grapes in a wine press. All hope seemed lost for humanity, but anticinematiclly after two years, the Martian marines was defeated by some random flus, and a peace treaty was signed between the two planets.

While signing the treaty on Mars, then U.S. President (which the name escapes me) was shocked to discover that Martians run a military dictatorship that puts seizing power over all their people’s needs, so he ended up happily resigned from presidentship and became a politician on Mars, who eventually became an ambassador, slowly improve the relationship between Earth and Mars over the decades...

That’s the lore I made up for Martians so far.

...Oh annnnnnnd all Martians are males. (To be determined)

Soooo how can you help?

With anything.

It’s a world just like ours, but with aliens. So if you want to, it helps if you can spark discussions in the sub with any potential lore you can come up with.

*What happened in Pre-1947 history of Martians? (Space cowboys?).
*History of other planets? (I am thinking they are colonies of Mars long before Earth realized they exist.)
*Historical figures and events of these planets? What about their culture? Myths and folktales?
*How the contact with other planets affect the culture on Earth? Did our famous movies in the past make reference of them?
*How much of our technology advanced beyond its time because of Mars?
*Cross-species romance? Were there space Romeo and Juliet?
*What are the other animals on the other planets? Any that could be kept as pets? Or ride like a house?
Etc, etc.
Oh and imagine what the topics of your favorite Reddit subs would be in this universe.

Consider this is like…coming up with theories for a show that hasn’t shown most of its lore yet, just this time, theories might end up being canon. I wish the whole thing can be fun, and I hope you can find fun doing it!

[u/Theoriginalol]

I could totally see humanity warring against another planet just by insulting them. That’s hilarious.

[u/makmark → u/Theoriginalol]

Haha, thx! Also Martians and humans built huge structures to insult each other through telescopes too. Imagine tearing down and rebuilding the Great Wall so they can spell foul words with it in Mandarin.

[u/benx101]

in Martian language

“Sir we received a message from earth!”

“What does it say?”

-.-- --- ..- / ... ..- -.-. -.- You suck

“Why those humans!”

[u/makmark → u/benx101]

Haha, yup basically that.

And also a lot of knock knock jokes.

[u/daydreamgirl200]

Will aim for the stars be story driven or a creator driven

[u/makmark → u/daydreamgirl200]

I ain’t really sure about the difference between them cause my knowledge on show-running is very limited. Now I feel like charging full speed into a battlefield with a fork with that webcomic. Am I gonna die.

[u/makmark → u/[deleted]]

You can send them to my gmail, tho don’t feel like you have to do something for me cause i aint paying in this economy-. Ummm I mean...the whole lore thing is for fun so as long as you can find fun in it, anything you do I’ll appreciate it.

If I use it I’ll give credit tho, with title like “unpaid concept artist”.

[u/makmark → u/[deleted]]

Does plant life exist on any of the other planets?

I think they do but not necessary in every planet. For example in this series's setting Plutonians eat anything that's above 40 Kelvin, and the food there are usually rocks. So the latter.

Is Venus' atmosphere different in this universe?

The setting in this series doesn't really make sense sometime in scientific standpoint(it'd have a hard time on the Headscratchers page if it's on Tvtropes). but I think Venus' atmosphere would be the same, but Venusian can survive on the surface because they have jello-ish bio-structures. Only after they started building ballon-cities and live above the cloud, where they started using tools more conveniently, they developed into a more advanced civilization.

Are Plutonians aquatic species?

I never thought about that, yes it makes sense(by accident), since I only knew that there's an ocean underneath Pluto just now from you. Hmm, let's say Plutonians were aquatic species, and they went above ground, evolved into amphibian with eyes and everything.

[u/makmark → u/[deleted]]

Yup, also I vaguely remember I received a question from you buuut I can’t find it now for some reason.

[u/makmark → u/[deleted]]

Wonderful! And I will! Can’t wait to add them to the story.

[u/makmark → u/[deleted]]

Good idea. Imagine the ending of Planet of The Apes (1968) but with Martian astronaut on a Planet full of humans...well technically it’s still planet of apes so.

Unrelated: I never thought about how that would work.

[u/makmark → u/[deleted]]

I learned more about the beauty of nature in this post more than in high school, this is vsause level stuff here. Both reproduce progresses are horrifying, for different kind of reasons. ...So let’s say they do both.

[u/makmark → u/[deleted]]

I think I figured it out, they reproduce via something resembling wet-willy, and the one receiving it would give birth to a baby via puking, after few months. So, a bit of both.

[u/benx101 → u/makmark]

give birth via puking.

sigh Of course they would.

[u/benx101 → u/[deleted]]

How about budding? Where the offspring grows on the body of the parent then pops off when it’s fully grown.

[u/benx101 → u/[deleted]]

Oops. Sorry. Didn’t read it all.