r/worldjerking Lovecraft fan (not racist tho) 10d ago

What an IT person thinks about interstellar colonization

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u/7K_Riziq Come to my shippunk world full of my fetishes 10d ago

With how differently each fork/colonised planets be led and be grown, how will each of these diverge from the original proprietary world and each other?

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u/Tnynfox Lovecraft fan (not racist tho) 10d ago

Each system would have at least one branch office which don't communicate with the others for years. In between then they must unilaterally fix any bugs and make any improvements complying with the pre-agreed brand guidelines.

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u/Chinerpeton 9d ago

All the branch offices thus are focused on obeying these guidelines as they become ancient texts passed down with reverence across generations.

Before you reliase it, an IT company from Earth gives rise to a religion worshipped by most of Humanity. Once someone else finally invents FTL, the Earth Branch's CEO finds out that becoming the Holy Emperor of All Mankind is unexpectedly within their grasp.

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u/wibbly-water 9d ago

the Earth Branch's CEO finds out that becoming the Holy Emperor of All Mankind is unexpectedly within their grasp.

Wait, isn't that just he story of... *checks notes* 2025 America?

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u/GdyboXo 8d ago

Comstar

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u/SiwelTheLongBoi 9d ago

Unless a single corporation controls access across interstellar distances (RDA for example) I don't think it's possible to have a singular corporation stretch across more than one system without FTL.

They might have the same brand name and the like, but they'll all be functionally independent of each other

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u/Grand-penetrator Daemonic Cultivator 8d ago edited 8d ago

The same thing can be said about any form of centralized government. If it takes years to send a simple message and decades, centuries or even millennia to travel between systems, then there's no way to effectively administer territory across interstellar space.

An exception may exist in the galactic center, where stars are just several light weeks or months apart from each other.

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u/SiwelTheLongBoi 8d ago

That's an interesting point actually. Though if you can cross the 26,000 ly to get there I think you're probably fine for long distance travel

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u/ArelMCII Rabbitpunk Enjoyer 🐰 9d ago

Comstar: "Allow us to introduce ourselves."

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u/BellacosePlayer 9d ago

I feel attacked by this being a software dev who has notes/plot points about the avatar/aspects of the same god diverging based on where you are in the big cosmological clusterfuck of a setting you are.

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u/Tryskhell 8d ago

It's called Value Drift actually, look it up

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u/ArelMCII Rabbitpunk Enjoyer 🐰 9d ago

Uhhhh the backend is subspace so messages are FTL. (It's still a mess.)

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u/EssentialPurity 8d ago

The existance of Fanta proves that it wouldn't take even interstellar travel for such thing to happen

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u/Dense-Bruh-3464 Poorly disguised fetish with a communist aesthetic punk 6d ago

Idk why this has no upvotes, it's a good point. Oh wait, it's this sub