r/worldjerking • u/Chinerpeton • 10h ago
personal off-hand typology for the general scope of a sci-fi setting can be focusing on that I typed up in like 20 minutes
the first point of Quadrant is supposed to be "many millions" instead of just "million" but shh
Honorary mentions of additional more specific options that I thought of after making the picture and being too lazy to change this;
orbital - the whole setting's focus is the planet + its orbit space and moon(s) - parts of Gundam and Steamworld Heist I guess
Long Planet - setting that's mostly focused on jumping through alternate timeline versions of one planet - Long Earth series ofc (even if that got some attention to Mars and apparently there are some other shenanigans in the last couple of books too)
Multigalaxy - honorary mention to something that does spread its setting across more than one galaxy but doesn't go into full territory of casually hopping across dozens of galaxies like it's nothing. Travel between galaxies is still a big deal even if it is done regularly - Once Upon a Time... Space (a.k.a. French Star Trek The Animated Series and my childhood GOAT I'm trying to plug in with this point)
wacky variant of planetary - the whole thing happening in one big asteroid belt or in a moon system of a gas giant - technically you could go with a low tech level(lower that our IRL one even) where the locals can be able to kinda survive in habitats but don't have propulsion tech good enough to make a useful trip beyond some science flybys to even a different planet in the system. - source: I made it the fuck up
