Kind of a weird question I know, but let me explain. I’m not talking about your themes or messages, but the general feeling someone looking into your world or imagining themselves in it might get about the situation, when the world is not in conflict. Basically, you know how when you watch a franchise like Star Trek, it has certain recurrent moods and feelings, like the tranquility of flying through space, the bittersweet isolation of being on a ship in deep space, where you are close to your crewmates but far from everything else you know, and the general professional but still sufficiently jovial atmosphere that they seem to go for? Or with Pokemon when it’s very adventure driven and based around meeting everyone you come across and making friends both with other humans and also with these magical creatures! I’m sure you can think of descriptions like these for your favourite franchises. We’ve all imagined ourselves in these worlds or imagined ourselves as characters in these worlds right? What were some of the vibes or feelings you imagined when you imagined your world? Or I guess another way of putting it is what would a slice of life exploration of your world be like?
(Science Fiction Setting)
When you are a moderately wealthy citizen in the Monadi Empire, you have no problems in life. You work your assigned job. You enjoy the rest of your workday and at the end of a cycle you pay your taxes and protection fees. But don’t you dare think about breaking out of your cozy life, the empire will ensure that you fall back in line. And those who have not enough money to pay for all that? Well, tough luck for those as well.
There were those who tried escaping. They either died by the overwhelming might of the empire or you were marked as a pirate killed-on-sight. Those pirates though? A perfect way to demand even more taxes and fees from the citizens!
The Monadi empire stretches across the inner planets of Hepthar (binary Star System, 4 inner planets with a few moons, an asteroid belt and then three gas giants as the outer planets with the farthest being rumored as a brown dwarf), and the pirates have some small asteroids they call their home. It may not be much, but at least it’s a free life.
The empire has many dirty secrets; their endorsed corporates even more. Nobody but the empire is allowed to have combat ships which they can control, as they prohibit anyone else but their endorsed and monitored corp to build ships. Though some corps even have small fleets of combat ships at their disposal.
What’s the general mood I want to provoke? It’s Suppressive and monotone for those inside the empire. Free, but dangerous and also adventurous for those outside.